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the largest 1 mm. long; microspores orange or minium-red, smooth; 



macrospores 



New Guinea. 



(129) S. Siibspiiiulosn. Spring, in PI. Jungh., 277; S. spinulosa, 

 Bk. (not Spring), Fern All., 64, et passim. 



Shoots trailing, 2V 5 cm. long, little branched, the stem very 

 slender; branches simple or slightly branched again; ultimate branchlets 

 very short, 1 IVa mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves 

 heteromorphous; lateral leaves spaced even on the ultimate branchlets, 

 subspreading, oblong-ovate; of the main rachis to IVa mm. long, V> as 

 broad, straight, blunt or bluntish, nearly keeled, the upper side sparingly 

 ciliate, rounded at the base, the lower side entire or denticulate; inter- 

 medial leaves erect, 1 U as large, subequilateral, ovate-oblong, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, spinuloso-denticulate. Spikes to 4 mm. long, nearly 

 square; sporophylla ovate, ciliate, keeled; of the upper plane unequal- 

 sided, much the broadest on the upper (inner) side, bluntish; of the lower 

 plane equal-sided, acute; macrospores yellow, nearly smooth; microspores 

 reddish, smooth. 



Java. 



(130) S. Weinlandii, Hicron., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 29. 

 Shoots creeping, the lower part dichotomous, the upper part pinnate, 



the stem compresso-terete, yellow-green, to V mm. thick, the main 

 rachis 2V* mm. broad including the lateral leaves; higher pinnae simple 

 or forked, to 2 cm. long, lower pinnate; ultimate branchlets 1 10 mm. 

 long, 1 IVa mm. broad. Lateral leaves remote on both stem and 

 branches; of the stem nearly horizontal or spreading, ovate, blunt or 

 bluntish, nearly equal-sided, hardly pellucid-margined, rounded at the 

 base, the upper side sparingly ciliated in the lower half, very minutely 

 denticulate in the upper part, the lower side very minutely denticulate 

 except in the lower %, the largest leaves VU mm. long and 3 A mm. 

 broad; of the branchlets smaller, to 1 mm. long, more ascending; inter- 

 medial leaves erect, ovate, nearly straight; of the stem shortly aristate- 

 acuminate, sparingly ciliate, very sparingly denticulate at the apex, 

 obliquely rounded at the base, the outer base somewhat produced, the 

 largest leaves 1 mm. long; of the branchlets smaller, subacute. Spikes 

 solitary and terminal on the branchlets, 2 2Va mm. long by IVa 2 mm. 



