103. SBLAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. a 5 . CAULESCENTES. 139 



(91) S. aeiica, Wnrb., Mons., I, 115. 



Shoots erect, 50 cm. long, the lower part simple, 2 mm. thick, 

 yellowish when dry, the upper part branched, broadly ovate in outline; 

 branches 8 on each side, decompound, the lower 3-pinnate, to 20 cm. 

 long, the upper simply pinnate, 2 cm. long; branchlets V 2 1 cm. long, 

 1 V 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stem adpressed, 

 ovate, 2 3 mm. long, acute, not produced at the base; leaves of the 

 branches heteromorphous, dark-green above, paler beneath, glossy and 

 bronce-glittering on both sides; of the lower plane oblique-patent, broadly 

 lanceolate, subfalcate, 3 5 mm. long, truncate at the base, subacute, 

 the upper side minutely or obsolately denticulate towards the apex, 

 gradually ciliate towards the narrowly rotundate-truncate base, the lower 

 side entire, sparingly ciliate at the truncate-subcordate base; of the upper 

 plane erect, ovate, 1V 2 mm. long, shortly cuspidate-acuminate, keeled, 

 the inner side minutely denticulate, narrowed at the base, the outer side 

 subentire, or sparingly ciliolate at the subauriculate-cordate base; leaves 

 of the branchlets similar but shorter and narrower; of the lower plane 

 lanceolate, VI* mm. long, V mm. broad, ciliated in the lower half, hardly 

 contiguous, rather somewhat remote, not produced at the base; of the 

 upper plane ovate, rather entire, keeled, acuminate. Spikes square, 5 7 

 mm. long, l x /4 mm. diam.; sporophylla subsquarose, broadly ovate, 3 A mm. 

 long, acute, keeled, glittering, ciliolate; macrospores irregularly rugulose; 

 microspores capitate- verruculose. 



Mindanao. 



(92) S. allxmiargiiiata, Warb., Mons., I, 119, tab. IV B. 

 Shoots erect, 3040 cm. long, the lower part simple, deeply grooved, 



2 mm. thick, the upper part branched, more broad than long; branches 

 5 on a side, the lowest to 15 cm. long, 2-pinnate, the highest 1 2 cm. 

 long, forked or hardly pinnate; branchlets 1 2 cm. long, 4 5 mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stem adpressed, broadly 

 lanceolate, 4 mm. long; leaves of the branches heteromorphous; of the 

 lower plane spreading, remote, subfalcate-lanceolate, to 6 mm. long, dark- 

 green above, more or less distinctly spuriously veined, paler and glittering 

 beneath, subacute, rounded on the upper side and cuneate on the lower 

 side at the base, the upper side dilated, pellucid-margined, denticulate; 

 of the upper plane lanceolate, 4 mm. long, hardly oblique, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, keeled, minutely denticulate, pellucid-margined, the inner base 



