103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. a 4 . ASCENDENTES. 87 



A A Pinnulae more compound- 

 ly branched. 



II Spikes slender, to 2 

 mm. diam. 



(72) S. simpokakensis. 

 II II Spikes stouter, more 



than 2 mm. diam. 



(73) S. novae-guiiieae. 



(27) S. Ciimiiisiaiiti, Spring, Hon., II, 126; Bk., Fern All., 77. 

 Shoots probably springing from a scandent main stem, 30 45 cm. long, 



pinnate, the stem obtusely quadrangular, sulcate down the face or sides, 

 12 14 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; pinnae ascending, the lower 

 pinnate. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the branchlets, more 

 spaced on the lower part of the stem, subhorizontal or spreading, rhomboid- 

 oblong, 5 7 cm. long, those of the stem the longest, V as broad, blunt or 

 bluntish, indistinctly spuriously veined, moderately thin in texture, nearly 

 equal-sided, the upper side very minutely denticulate and somewhat 

 pellucid-margined, rounded and denticulate or ciliolate at the base, the 

 lower side entire or subentire, ciliolate at the rotundate or broadly cuneate 

 base, the ciliae continued upon the rachis; leaves of the upper plane 

 oblique-ovate, 2 3 times smaller, blunt, oblique and ciliated at the 

 obliquely subcordate base, the outer base produced, cordate-auriculate. 

 Spikes square, 2Vz 5 cm. long, 2 : /2 mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, gradually 

 long-acuminate from a broad base, very minutely serrulate, keeled; 

 macrospores yellowish, nearly smooth, or irregularly verrucose, rugulose 

 or somewhat reticulate, the apical ribs encircled by a somewhat undulated 

 crest-shaped wing; microspores reddish, provided with needle-like or 

 capitate projections. 

 Philippines. 



(28) S. longipes (longistipes), . A. . Jr., Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 46. 

 Shoots erect from a creeping base, 3560 cm. long when fully 



developed, the lower part simple, to 30 cm. long, when dry brownish 

 and irregularly angled, the upper part deltoid or ovate, 3-pinnate, the 

 main rachis 810 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; lowest pinnae 



