103. SELAGINELLA. A. PLEIOSTELICAE. 211 



6 7 mm. broad. Leaves of the stem erect, adpressed, lanceolate- 

 oblong, bluntish; leaves of the branches dark-green; of the lower plane 

 lanceolate-oblong, subfalcate, pale-margined on the upper side, entire, 

 oblique at the base, upper base rounded, lower nearly auricled; of the 

 upper plane adpressed, lanceolate, subacute, pellucid-dotted, pale-margined, 

 auricled on the outer side at the base. Spikes TA 2Va cm. long, acute, 

 square; sporophylla spreading, triangular-ovate, entire, albo-marginate, 

 bluntly acuminate. 



New Guinea, Moti Island. 



(182) S. Wallichii, Spring, Hon., II, 143; Bk., Fern All., 90; 

 S. Wallichii, Spring, var. elegans & var. sericea, Warb., Mons., I, 106; 

 Lycopodium Wallichii, Hk. & Grev., Enum. Fil., No. 106; var. megalura; 

 S. Wallichii, Spring, var. typica & var. macroura, Warb., 1. c. ; S. megalura, 

 Hieron., in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I 4 , 702; var. Walkeri, v. A. v. R., 

 Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 51. 



Shoots suberect, 45 90 cm. long, the lower part simple, the stem 

 3-stelical, the upper part pinnate; pinnae lanceolate, 10 30 cm. long, the 

 invariably simple pinnulae crowded, erecto-patent, 1 6 cm. long, 3 6 

 mm. broad including the lateral leaves, the terminal ones sometimes much 

 elongated. Leaves of the stem very remote, more or less isomorphous; 

 leaves of the branches heteromorphous ; leaves of the lower plane spreading; 

 of the main rachis remote; of the branchlets crowded, lanceolate-oblong, 

 l s /4 3Y 4 mm. long, to 2 mm. broad, subfalcate, spreading, obscurely 

 petiolulate, dark above, pale-glittering beneath, entire, the lower side 

 truncate or slightly cordate at the base, the upper side rotundate-cuneate 

 to slightly cordate; leaves of the upper plane V 1 U as long, falcate-oblong, 

 mucronate-acuminate, obliquely cordate to rotundate-cuneate at the base, 

 imbricate. Spikes square, terminal, 1 or rarely 2 on a pinnulae, to 6 cm. 

 long, 2 2V mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, mucronate-acuminate, entire, 

 keeled. 



Forma typica: Pinnulae 13 cm. long; spikes to 1 cm. long; macro- 

 spores yellowish-white, verruculose; microspores finely foveolate on the 

 basal side, provided with an equatorial ring consisting of tuberculiform 

 projections. Malacca; Br. India, Assam. 



War. megalura: Pinnulae 1 3 cm. long; spikes 1 2 cm. 

 long; macrospores brown, slightly white-glaucous, rugulose to reticulate; 

 microspores finely verruculose, nearly smooth. Borneo; Assam. 



