102 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. Si*. ASCENDENTES. 



piloso-denticulate T pellucid-margined, the ventral ones somewhat broader, 

 the largest 1V mm. long; macrospores white or yellowish, provided with 

 free, flexuose, branched or reticulated rumples on the basal side, the apical 

 ribs encircled by an equatorial ring; microspores minium-red or yellowish, 

 provided with crowded, sessile,, capitate projections on the basal side. 

 Luzon. 



(45) S. plume a. Spring, Mon. II, 136; Bk., Fern AIL, 76; var. 

 trichobasis; S. trichobasis, Bk., 1. c. 



Shoots erect, or ascending from a decumbent base, 15 30 cm. long, 

 the stem subterete or obtusely angular, the branching between dichotomous 

 and pinnately decompound; principal rachises 6 10 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves; ultimate branchlets 2 5 mm. broad. Leaves hetero- 

 morphous; lateral leaves rather spaced on the main stem, more crowded 

 on the branchlets; of ths stem horizontal or spreading, 3 5 mm. long, 

 bluntish or roucronulate, spuriously veined and pellucid-margined, the 

 upper edge entire or obscurely denticulate towards the apex, gradually 

 eiliolate or ciliate towards the much produced aurieulate-cordate base, 

 the lower edge entire, or minutely denticulate towards the rather narrowly 

 rounded or rotundate-cuneate base, the upper surface provided with a few 

 short, spine-like, scattered hairs near the lower edge ; of the branchlets 

 smaller, 1 3 A 2 'A mm. long, acute, less spreading, obliquely rounded or 

 rotundate-cuneate at the base ; intermedial leaves small, roundish, oblong, 

 ovate or obovate, denticulate or ciliate, narrowly pellucid-margined, long- 

 cuspidate, the cusp as long as the blade ; of the stem abruptly cuspidate, 

 obliquely cordate at the base, the outer base produced; of the branchlets 

 acuminate-cuspidate, obliquely rounded or rotundate-cuneate at the base. 

 Spikes copious, square T 6 12V* mm. long and 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla 

 ovate, acuminate, denticulate-ciliolate, rather pellucid-margined, keeled ; 

 maerospores irregularly rugulose or reticulate, or verruculose, and the 

 apical ribs encircled by a ring-shaped crest; microspores whitish or 

 yellowish, provided with capitate or bacilliform projections on the basal side. 



Forma typica: Ciliae short, rather oblique. 



War. trichobasis: Ciliae long, rather horizontal. 



Malacca. 



(46) S. Qregoryi. Jifcron., Fed., Rep., X, 102. 



Shoots 40 60 cm. long, the lower part simple, stipitiform, compresso- 



