188 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MOXOSTELICAE. b 3 . SUBEROSAE. 



rotundate-cuneate at the base. Spikes rather short, 45 mm. broad; 

 sporophylla trimorphous; of the upper plane ascending, lanceolate, shortly 

 mucronulate-acuminate, more or less keeled and ciliolate-denticulate, 3 

 mm. long; of the lower plane erect, the higher regularly ovate-acuminate, 

 keeled, long-cuspidate, ciliolate, 2Y 4 mm. long, the lower (of the macro- 

 sporangia) ovate, very unequal-sided, 3Va mm. long, keeled, the apex 

 shortly cuspidate, the outer side very narrow, gradually narrowed towards 

 the apex, the inner side very broad, with the apex blunt, rounded, emarginate 

 at the base of the cusp, both edges ciliolate-deuticulate but the outer 

 edge entire towards the apex; macrospores whitish or yellowish, smooth; 

 microspores yellowish or pale-orange, densely and irregularly rugulose 

 with connected tuberculiform projections giving them a brain-shaped 

 aspect. - The classification of this species is not quite positive, the 

 description being taken from an incomplete specimen. 

 Sumatra. 



(156) S. suherosa, Spring, Mon., II, 252; Bk., Fern AIL, 119. 

 Shoots densely tufted, suberect, copiously pinnate, often above 30 cm. 



long, the stem pale, shining-brown or stramineous, spongy, to 3V4 mm. 

 thick at the base, the branches erecto-patent and decompound. Leaves 

 of the lower plane spaced and erecto-patent on the branches, very distant 

 and spreading on the stem, oblique-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3 3 'A mm. 

 long, V as broad, acute, bright-green, membranous, unequal-sided, much 

 produced, broadly rotundate-subcordate, rotundate or rotundate-cuneate, 

 entire, or sparingly ciliated and a little imbricated over the stem on the 

 upper side at the base, more or less narrowly rounded on the lower side ; 

 leaves of the upper plane Va % as long, obovate-oblong, long-aristate, slightly 

 narrowed and obliquely decurrent at the base, entire or sparingly den- 

 ticulate or ciliate. Spikes copious, 6 20 mm. long, 3 4 'A mm. broad; 

 sporophylla of the upper plane lanceolate, erecto-patent, somewhat ciliate 

 at the base, keeled; of the lower plane ascending, ovate-subulate, long- 

 acuminate, ciliate, keeled ; macrospores yellowish or greyish, with deciduous 

 tuberculiform verrucae; microspores reddish, with tuberculiform projections. 

 Malacca to Northern India. 



(157) S. myosiiroiclcs, Spring, Mon., II, 236; Bk., Fern All., 118; 

 Lycopodium myosuroides, Klf., Enum. Fil., 19. 



Shoots erect or ascending, 10 20 cm. long, pinnate, the stem 



