103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. b 1 . INTERTEXTAE. 163 



(120) S. loiigicilintn. Jf.v,,.. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 33. 

 Shoots wide-creeping, decumbent or subascending towards the apex, 



the lower part simple, 2 3 mm. broad including the lateral leaves, the 

 upper part decompound, the main rachis V mm. thick, yellowish-green, 

 nearly 2-sulcate down the face, 4 6 mm. broad; pinnae to 2Y* cm. long, 

 the lower sparingly pinnate, the higher simple or forked; ultimate branch- 

 lets 3 mm. broad. Lateral leaves horizontal or nearly so; of the main 

 rachis remote, obliquely ovate, unequal-sided, shortly acuminate, rather 

 acute, the upper side sparingly minutely denticulate towards the apex, 

 finely long-ciliate in the J A 3 A lower part, broadly rounded at the base, 

 the lower side very minutely denticulate towards the apex, sparingly 

 long-ciliate at the narrowly rounded base, the largest leaves 3 mm. long 

 and I 1 /* mm. broad; of the branchlets smaller, to 2 mm. long, propor- 

 tionally narrower, less unequal-sided, often destitute of ciliae on the lower 

 base, close or * approximate ; intermedial leaves erect; of the main rachis 

 remote, broadly ovate, long-cuspidate-acuminate, loosely long-ciliate, the 

 outer base shortly auricled, the auricle blunt or acute, the inner base 

 more or less rounded, the cusp Va as long as the blade, the largest leaves 

 r/2 mm. long; of the branchlets smaller, more crowded, longer cuspidate. 

 Spikes solitary, 2 3 mm. long, 1V mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper 

 piano spreading, narrowly deltoid-ovate, acute, to 1'A mm. long, loosely 

 long-ciliate, keeled; of the lower plane suberect, ovate, long-cuspidate- 

 acuminate, loosely long-ciliate, keeled, to IVs mm. long; macrospores 

 yellow, finely indistinctly verruculose-rugulose ; microspores yellow or 

 yellowish, smooth. 

 New Guinea. 



(121) $. cxasperata, A. Jfr., MS. in Herb. Berol. ; Warb., Mons., 

 I, 126; var. rectisulca, Warb., 1. c. 



Shoots trailing, 10 15 cm. long, the stem Y mm. thick, yellowish 

 when dry; branches distant, 2 3 cm. long; branchlets few, 1 1Y cm. 

 long. Leaves of the lower plane firm, spreading; of the stem remote, 

 broadly ovate, 1Y mm. long, subacuminate, entire, very oblique, dilated 

 on the upper side, the base obliquely rounded, imbricate over the stem, 

 piloso-denticulate ; leaves of the upper plane pale, erect, elliptical, very 

 long-cuspidate, keeled, minutely denticulate; leaves of the branchlets 

 similar to those of the stem but growing gradually shorter and less 

 distant. Spikes commonly double, 3 8 mm. long, 2 2Y mm. broad; 



