103. SELAGINELLA. INDEFINITAE. 231 



S. flebilis, Spring, Mon., II, 122; S. tenera, Spring^ 1. c, 241, 

 p. p. (t. Warb.); Lycopodium debile, Bory, Bel., Voy. Bot., II, 8, tab. I, 



flg. 1. 



Shoots to 45 cm. long, the stem thick, quadrangular, stramineous; 

 pinnae unequal, erecto-patent; pinnulae 3 — 4 times forked from a simple 

 base. Leaves heteromorphous, deep-green above, glaucous beneath, those 

 of the stem remote, of the branches gradually contiguous; leaves of the 

 lower plane horizontal on the stem, ascending on the branches, ovate- 

 oblong, 4'/2 — 5V2 mm. long, 3 — 3'/4 mm. broad, falcate, subacute, subentire, 

 sparingly denticulate on the upper edge, narrowed at the base; leaves of 

 the upper plane to V2 as long, adpressed, roundish or obovate, abruptly 

 long-apiculate, ciliolate-denticulate, equally subcordate at the base, straight, 

 rather divaricating, the cusp rather spreading. Spikes 



Java; Peninsular India. 



k\ PLEIOSTELICAE. 



S. Wictoriae, Moore, Bk., Fern AIL, 90. 



Shoots suberect, 90 — 120 cm. long; branches lanceolate-deltoid, usually 

 15 — 25 cm. long, caudate, the upper branchlets erecto-patent and simple, 

 contiguous, the lower forked or slightly pinnate. Leaves of the lower 

 plane crowded, lanceolate-oblong, falcate, acute, 2 mm. long, dark-bright- 

 green, firm in texture, equal-sided, obscurely petiolulate, truncate on both 

 sides at the base, not ciliate, not imbricate over the rachis ; leaves of the 

 upper plane '/4 as long, oblique-oblong, shortly cuspidate, much imbricated. 

 Spikes square, 2V2— 5 cm. long, 2 — 2V2 mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, 

 cuspidate, acutely keeled. 



Borneo (?)^ Moluccas (?); Polynesia. 



