152 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. a 6 . PUBESCENTES. 



white, more or less reticulate-rugulose, the apical ribs encircled by a 

 slightly elevated equatorial ring; microspores minium-red or brown-red, 

 provided with scattered stipitate-capitate projections on the basal side. 

 New Guinea. 



(106) S. mclaiiesica, Kuhn, Forschr. Gaz., IV, Bot,, 17. 

 Shoots ascending or erect, the lower part simple, to 25 cm. long, 



indistinctly quadrangular, thinly pubescent, stramineous, the upper part 

 pinnately compound, deltoid in outline, 30 50 cm. long, the main rachis 

 somewhat hairy; pinnae ascending, 3-pinnate; ultimate branchlets hardly 

 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stipe isomorphous, 

 remote, erected, adpressed, broadly ovate, acuminate, finely serrulate at 

 the apex; leaves of the branched portion heteromorphous, deep-green, 

 glossy, imbricated; of the lower plane erecto-patent, small, unequal-sided, 

 elongate-lanceolate, subfalcate, acuminate, the upper side finely serrulate, 

 ciliolate at the pellucid-margined, rounded or rotundate-cuneate base, the 

 lower side finely serrulate at the apex, entire, or sparingly ciliolate at 

 the subauriculate-truncate base, the largest leaves of the branchlets nearly 

 2 mm. long, 3 U mm. broad; leaves of the upper plane Ys as long, ovate, 

 unequal-sided, acuminate, finely serrulate, the inner base rounded, the 

 outer base auriculate-cordate. Spikes square, 1 IVz cm. long; sporophylla 

 elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrulate, keeled; microspores yellow 

 or dirty-orange, provided with scattered conical or short-cylindrical projec- 

 tions on the basal side; macrospores 



Papua. 



(107) fc. Micro ii .yniiaita, r. A. . Jtt., Bull. Btz., 1912, VII, 31; 

 S. minutifolia, Ces. (not Spring), Fel. Becc. Polin., 9. 



Shoots erect from a trailing base, 50 75 cm. long when fully 

 developed, the lower part simple, terete or subterete, stramineous, 

 deciduously pilose, 2Y 3 mm. thick near the base, the upper part 

 pinnately compound, more or less ovate in outline, the rachises pilose; 

 pinnae ovate to lanceolate, the largest to 35 cm. long, 2 4-pinnate; 

 quaternary branches simple or forked; ultimate branchlets 2 15 mm. 

 long, lYz 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves, the terminal ones 

 not rarely much elongated and caudiform. Leaves of the stipe and lower 

 part of the main rachis isomorphous, erected, adpressed, ovate, acute, 

 subentire, the base truncate-rotundate or obliquely cordate, peltate; leaves 



