248 APPENDIX. 103. SELAGINELLA. 



Var. obtuslfolia: Lateral leaves shorter, oblique-ovate, blunt, 

 less unequal-sided, not pellucid-margined; sporophylla of the upper plane 

 longer. — Negros. 



(162a) S. Pickrinsii, Mieron., Leaf!., VI, 2046. 



Shoots erect, or ascending from a short-creeping base, 5 — 12 cm. 

 long, the lower part simple or dichotomous, the upper part 2 — 3-pinnate, 

 the stem compresso-terete, to 1 mm. thick, stramineous-green or pale- 

 brown, when dry grooved, 4—5 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; 

 branchlets very short, 2 mm. broad. Leaves heteromorphous ; lateral 

 leaves horizontal on the stem, ascending on the branchlets; of the stem 

 remote, obliquely ovate, unequal-sided, indistinctly spuriously veined, 

 bluntish, both sides minutely serrulate and very narrowly subpellucid- 

 margined, the upper base broadly rounded or cordate, the lower base 

 narrowly rotundate-truncate, the largest leaves 2'A mm. long, Vh mm. 

 broad; of the branchlets smaller, less remote, nearly equally rotundate- 

 cuneate at the base; intermedial leaves erect, ovate, long-cuspidate- 

 acuminate, the cusp Vj as long to as long as the blade, the sides minutely 

 serrulate, very narrowly subpellucid -margined, the base obliquely rotundate- 

 cuneate; of the stem the largest, IV2 — VU mm. long. Spikes solitary, 

 5 — 15 mm. long, I'A — 2 mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper plane 

 spreading, to I'A mm. long, oblique-ovate, bluntish or subacute, keeled, 

 the upper side minutely serrulate and very narrowly pellucid-margined; 

 of the lower plane suberect, broadly deltoid-ovate, long-acuminate, minutely 

 serrulate, keeled; macrospores sublilacinous-white or pale-brownish, very 

 minutely punctulate-verruculose, nearly smooth, opaque; microspores 

 minium-red or subferrugineous, smooth. 



Negros. 



PLEIOSTELICAE. 



(182a) S. davaoensiis, Uieron., Leaf!., VI, 2053. 



Shoots erect or ascending from a creeping base, 60 — 75 cm. long, 

 the lower part simple, stipitiform, not rarely provided with a few short, 

 distant branchlets, the upper part 2-pinnate, the stem 3-stelical, to I'A 

 mm. thick, when dry grooved and stramineous-brown; pinnae remote, 



