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



morphous; lateral leaves of the stem subspreading or ascending, ovate, 

 to 5 mm. long, obtuse, entire, spuriously nerved, rounded on the upper 

 side at the base, cuneate on the lower side; those of the ultimate 

 branchlets imbricated, sessile, elongate-lanceolate, obtuse or very slightly 

 acuminated, falcate, pellucid-margined on the upper side, spuriously nerved, 

 the upper base cordate, ciliolate, the lower base cuneate or rounded, 

 entire or sparingly ciliated, the largest leaves 3 4 mm. long; intermedial 

 leaves V as long; those of the stem rhomboidal-ovate, long-cuspidate, 

 ciliolate to denticulate, soon entire, cordate on the outer side at the base, 

 cuneate on the inner side; those of the branchlets abruptly long-aristate- 

 acuminate, with the inner side entire, rounded at the base, the outer 

 side ciliated and cordate at the base. Spikes square, 1 2 cm. long, 

 1V 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla triangular-oblong, much acuminated, pellucid- 

 margined and minutely denticulate, keeled, those on the upper side 

 somewhat larger; macrospores yellowish-white, finely rugulose or reticulate; 

 microspores dirty-yellowish or orange, provided with stipitate-capitate or 

 conical projections on the basal side. 



War. lircvi-iiriKftitu: Leaves of the upper plane acute or 

 acuminate, at best shortly aristate, minutely denticulate to ciliolate. 



New Guinea. 



(48) S. Moszkowskii, Jiteron., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 14. 



Shoots erect, to 50 cm. or more long, the lower part simple, stipiti- 

 form, compressed, sub-2-sulcate on the face, subconvex on the back, to 

 4 mm. thick, glossy, olivaceous, yellowish or brownish, the upper part 

 sub-3-pinnate, ovate in outline, the main rachis 7 8 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves; lower pinnae to 20 cm. long, with the lower pinnulae 

 twice forked ; ultimate branchlets 5 6 mm. broad. Leaves heteromorphous ; 

 leaves of the stipe rather erect, remote; lateral leaves obliquely ovate, 

 very unequal-sided, the largest 5 mm. long and 2V mm. broad, narrowed 

 gradually to the bluntish point, the upper (inner) side indistinctly and 

 narrowly pellucid-margined in the lower half, denticulate, entire towards 

 the apex, gradually long-ciliate towards the auriculate-cordate base, the 

 lower (outer) side entire, ciliate at the shortly subtruncate-rotundate 

 base; intermedial leaves slightly obliquely falcate-ovate, unequal-sided, 

 shortly aristate-acuminate, obliquely cordate at the base, the largest 4 

 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, the inner side narrowly pellucid-margined in 

 the lower part, denticulate towards the apex, ciliate towards the base, 



