76 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. a 3 . RADICANTES. 



crospores yellowish, provided with bacilliform or stipitate-capitate projections 

 on the basal side. 

 Banca. 



(18) 8. brachyhlepharis, r. A. v. n., Bull. Btz., 1013, XI, 24. 



Shoots more or less decumbent to subascending, ascending towards 

 the apex, 1530 cm. long, pinnate, or dichotomous with pinnate secondary 

 shoots; main rachis subterete, somewhat compressed, 5 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves; pinnae erecto-patent, various in length, short or to 

 10 cm. long; pinnulae simple, forked or sparingly pinnate; branchlets to 

 1V cm. long, to 3 mm. broad. Leaves of the lower plane remote on the 

 main rachis, close or approximate on the branchlets; of the main rachis 

 horizontal, very unequal-sided, 4 mm. long, IVa mm. broad, blunt or 

 bluntish, the upper side minutely denticulate, or subentire towards the 

 apex, imbricate over the rachis and ciliolate towards the very cordate 

 base, the lower side entire, or ciliolate-denticulate at the narrow, slightly 

 cordate base, subentire towards the apex; those of the branchlets ascending, 

 elliptical-oblong, nearly equal-sided, the largest 2 mm. long, hardly more 

 than Va mm. broad, acute or submucronulate, rounded or rotundate-cuneate 

 at the base, margined with more or less distinct spurious veinlets, the 

 upper side ciliolate towards the base, subentire towards the apex, the 

 lower side entire, with 4 short or tooth-like ciliae at the base; leaves 

 of the upper plane erect ; of the main rachis close, broadly oblong, 3 mm. 

 long, nearly abruptly long-cuspidate, more or less minutely denticulate 

 especially on the outer side at the base, obliquely cordate at the base, 

 the outer base broad, much produced, hamato-incurvate, the cusp V */ 

 as long as the blade ; those of the branchlets similar, imbricate, smaller, 

 acuminate-cuspidate, with the outer side pellucid-margined, less conspicuously 

 produced and more narrowly cordate at the base, the auricle rather 

 entire, the inner base cuneate. Spikes mostly solitary, short, to 1 cm. 

 long, 2 mm. diam., nearly square; sporophylla erecto-patent, imbricate, 

 ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, minutely denticulate, pellucid- 

 margined, keeled, of the lower plane somewhat larger, IVa mm. long; 

 macrospores whitish, rugulose with short or elongated, straight, flexuose, 

 branched or reticulate rumples, the apical ribs encircled by a hardly 

 elevated ring-shaped crest; microspores whitish or yellowish, provided 

 with bacilliform or stipitate-capitate projections. 



Borneo. 



