192 103. SELAGINELLA. A 1 . MONOSTELICAE. b 3 . STJBEROSAE. 



1 2 mm. long; intermedial leaves erect, ovate-oblong, narrowly pellucid- 

 margined, with a cusp Va 3 A as long as the blade or longer, minutely 

 denticulate, rather rounded at the base, the largest to I 1 * mm. long. 

 Spikes 4 10 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, narrowed towards the apex; 

 sporophylla of the upper plane subspreading, lanceolate-oblong, acute, 

 minutely serrulate on both sides, keeled; of the lower plane suberect, 

 triangular-ovate, subulate-acuminate and somewhat cuspidate, minutely 

 denticulate; macrospores white or yellowish, smooth, finely verruculose, 

 foveolate or rugulose ; microspores verruculose. - - I cannot distinguish 

 this from the preceding, and plants gathered in Java agree in my opinion 

 with the diagnoses of both. 

 New Guinea, Java (?). 



b. HeteroStadiyS. 4. Brnchytlachyae. 



J. Sporophylla not very heter amorphous. (163) S. megaphylla. 



.. Sporophylla conspicuously hetei'omorphous. 



2. Intel-medial leaves hardly produced on -the outer side at the base. 



3. Ultimate branchlets to 3 mm. broad including the lateral 



leaves. (164) S. d'Armandvillei. 



3.3. Ultimate branchlets 4 mm. or more broad including the 



lateral leaves. (165) S. brachystachya. 



2.9. Intermedial leaves distinctly produced on the outer side at the base. 



3. Intermedial leaves long-cuspidate. (166) S. fimbriata. 



3.3'. Intermedial leaves not long-cuspidate. (167) S. subfimbriata. 



(163) S. megaphylla. Hfc., Fern AIL, 113. 



Shoots 15 30 cm. long, assurgent from a decumbent base, more or 

 less dichotomous in the lower part, more pinnately divided upwards, the 

 stem sulcate down the face, the branches copiously compound. Leaves 

 of the lower plane contiguous except low down the stem, spreading from 

 an oblique base, linear-oblong, 4 6 mm. long, 3 4 times as long as 

 broad, obtuse, serrulate, rounded and a little imbricated over the rachis 

 on the upper side at the base ; leaves of the upper plane ovate-lanceolate, 



