103. SELAGINELLA. A 2 . PLEIOSTELICAE. 



f". Lower axittary leaves roundish, not 

 much longer than broad. 



(176) S. furcillifolia. 



f'.f: Axittary leaves oblong, conspicuously 

 longer than broad. 



(204) S. d'Urvillei. 



(168) S. lacerata. if r6., Mons., I, 120. 



Shoots erect, 40 cm. long, the lower part simple, 2 mm. thick, 

 3-stelical, sulcate, yellowish when dry, the upper (larger) part branched, 

 ovate in outline ; pinnae 7 on a side, lanceolate, copiously simply pinnate, 

 caudiculate; ultimate branchlets IVz 2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stipe adpressed, broadly lanceolate, 3 

 mm. long, subtruncate or auricled on 1 side at the base; leaves of the 

 branched portion heteromorphous; lateral leaves spreading, remote on the 

 main rachis, close on the branches; of the secondary rachises broadly 

 lanceolate, 4 mm. long, very oblique, acute, the base subcordate, appen- 

 diculate-lacerate, the appendages subulate, intricate; intermedial leaves 

 V* as long, erect, adpressed, falcate, acuminate, somewhat keeled; of the 

 secondary rachises peltate, sometimes lacerate at the base; leaves of the 

 ultimate branchlets similar to those of the principal rachises but smaller, 

 not or hardly lacerate at the base, the lateral subfalcate-oblong, 3 mm. 

 long, suboblique, hardly acute, subauriculate at the narrowed upper base, 

 truncate at the lower base, the intermedial very oblique, lanceolate, 

 shortly cuspidate, not keeled. Spikes yellow, 4 5 mm. long, IVs mm. 

 diam.; sporophylla broadly lanceolate, hardly 1 mm. long, acutely acuminate, 

 entire; macrospores white, pale-yellow or pale-brown, densely verruculose; 

 microspores white, provided with free or connected, crowded, short- 

 cylindrical or shortly stipitate-capitate projections on the basal side. 



Philippines. 



(169) S. (ylophorti. r. A. r. K., Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 50. 

 Shoots erect from a creeping or ascending base, 15 20 cm. long, 



branched down to the base, or the lower part simple or provided with a 

 few reduced pinnae, the stem brownish-grey or ochraceous when dry, 

 3-stelical, asperous with crowded minute waits, the upper part pinnate, 



