103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. b s . SUBEROSAE. 179 



subentire or minutely denticulate, obliquely rounded at the base. Spikes 

 5 15 mm. long; sporophylla of the upper plane erecto-patent, ovate- 

 lanceolate, inequilateral, very minutely denticulate, keeled, shortly 

 acuminate; of the lower plane % as long, suberect, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, keeled, minutely denticulate; macrospores yellowish-white, 

 smooth; microspores minium-red, smooth. 

 Java. 



(142) m. Karnbachii, flferott., Hedwi., XLIII, 64. 



Shoots erect or ascending from a slightly creeping base, to 7 cm. 

 long, pinnately branched, the stem hardly Vz mm. thick, subterete, rather 

 compressed, stramineous-green, often forked at the base; secondary shoots 

 sublanceolate or ovate in outline; lower branches hardly 2V cm. long, 

 sparingly pinnate, higher forked or simple. Leaves heteromorphous, sub- 

 glaucous-green; lateral leaves somewhat unequal-sided, ovate, decurrent 

 and auricled on the lower side, subcordate and rounded on the upper 

 side at the base, subobtuse, the upper side narrowly pellucid- or pale- 

 margined, with the edge provided with moderately long, straight or 

 recurved ciliae towards the base, both edges more or less distinctly 

 serrulate towards the apex, the largest leaves 1 IVz mm. long, S A mm. 

 broad; intermedial leaves ovate, the largest 1 mm. long, 1; 2 mm. broad, 

 shortly acuminate, with the inner base cordate, the outer base shortly 

 auriculate, both sides narrowly pellucid-margined, and shortly and sparingly 

 ciliate at the edge. Spikes conspicuously platystichous, to 12 mm. long, 

 2% mm. Abroad; sporophylla of the upper plane, unequal-sided, oblique- 

 ovate, acute, pellucid-margined, ciliated, slightly piloso-denticulate towards 

 the apex, keeled, the largest IVa mm. long, hardly Va mm. broad; those 

 of the lower plane pale-green, more or less equal-sided, ovate, acute, 

 subaristate, long-ciliate on both sides at the edge, the largest 1 mm. 

 long, l /* mm. broad; macrospores opaque-yellow or white, smooth; micro- 

 spores minium-red, smooth. 



New Guinea. 



(143) S. macroblepharis. Warb., Mons., I, 124, tab. Ill C. 

 Shoots subcreeping or rather ascending, 7 8 cm. long, the stem 



slender, Vs mm. thick, yellowish; pinnae 2 3 cm. long; pinnulae l li 1 

 cm. long, remote, simple or the lower forked. Leaves heteromorphous; 

 leaves of the lower plane spaced on both stem and branches, spreading 



