120 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. E. ASCENDENTES. 



cordate, the lower base rotundate-cuneate or narrowly rounded, both sides 

 pellucid-margined, the upper edge minutely denticulate towards the base, 

 the leaves of the upper plane erect, nearly equilateral, those of the stem 

 and lower part of the rachis remote, broadly subcordate- or triangular- 

 ovate, 34 mm. long, cuspidate-acuminate, naked, pellucid-margined, very 

 minutely denticulate, those of the branchlets adpressed, imbricated, ovate, 

 long-cuspidate-acuminate, to 2V> mm. long, pellucid-dotted, the base 

 obliquely rounded or the inner base rotundate-cuneate and the outer base 

 subcordate, more or less produced, the inner side pellucid-margined and 

 minutely denticulate, the outer side more broadly pellucid-margined, 

 minutely denticulate towards the apex, the cusp rather more than Yz as 

 long as the blade, the spikes solitary, to 1 cm. long, the sporophylla 

 acutely subulate at the apex, distinctly pellucid-margined and minutely 

 denticulate on both sides, at length squarrose, the macrospores whitish 

 or yellowish, finely and irregularly rugulose, with the apical ribs encircled 

 by a ring-shaped crest, the microspores yellowish, provided with bacilliform 

 projections which are often capitate at the apex. 

 Borneo. 



(69) S. wahaueiisis. if. >., Hedwi., LI, 250. 



Shoots ascending from a creeping base, 1015 cm. long, the lower 

 part simple, short-stipitiform (1 4 cm. long), the upper part branched, 

 ovate-lanceolate in outline ; lower pinnae pinnate, 3 3V 2 cm. long, higher 

 simple or forked; pinnulae few, 2 4 on a side, hardly more than 1 cm. 

 long, simple or rarely forked. Leaves heteromorphous on both stem and 

 branches; those of the lower plane spreading, obliquely falcate-ovate, 

 unequal-sided; those of the stipe and main rachis 'the largest, to 3Vz mm. 

 long, to r/2 mm. broad, acuminate, cuneate on the lower side at the 

 base, broadly rotundate-cuneate on the upper side at the base, entire on 

 the lower edge except towards the apex, minutely denticulate and pellucid- 

 margined on the upper side; those of the branches growing gradually 

 smaller; of the ultimate branchlets 2Y 4 mm. long, hardly V 2 mm. broad; 

 leaves of the upper plane unequal-sided, oblique-ovate, cuspidate, slightly 

 keeled towards the apex, narrowly pellucid-margined on both sides and 

 minutely denticulate except at the base, sparingly pellucid-dotted, rotundate- 

 cuneate on the inner side, shortly and narrowly rotundate-truncate and 

 hardly produced on the outer sicte at the base, the largest 2 mm. long 

 ancl */i mm? broad, the cusp Vs as long as the blade, Spikes 5 8 mm. 



