212 103. SELAGINELLA. A 2 . PLEIOSTELICAE. 



Var. Walkeri: Pinnulae 3 6 cm. long; spikes 3 6 cm. long; 

 macrospores whitish, densely verruculose; microspores orange, provided 

 with crowded, sessile or short-stalked capitate projections on the basal 

 side. Singapore. 



(183) S. clliptica. r. A. . K., Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 51. 



Near S. Wallichii Spring but: Shoots to 20 cm. long; pinnae 5 I 1 * 

 cm. long, r/2 cm. broad; pinnulae 1 1V cm. long, 3 4 mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves. Lateral leaves more or less unequal-sided, 

 elliptical-oblong, nearly straight, acute or shortly mucronulate-acuminate ; 

 of the main rachis remote, horizontal, rounded at the upper base, slightly 

 cordate at the lower base, 2 mm. long, to 1V4 mm. broad; of the pinnulae 

 ascending, contiguous or somewhat remote, acuminate, rather cuneate at 

 the base, to 2 mm. long, to nearly 1 mm. broad, very narrowly pellucid- 

 margined; intermedia! leaves erect; of the main rachis remote, oblong, 

 acuminate, cordate at the base, 2 mm. long; of the pinnulae smaller, 

 imbricate, falcate-oblong, long-cuspidate-acuminate, obliquely cuneate at 

 the base, very narrowly pellucid-margined. Spikes 1V mm. diam.; sporo- 

 phylla subulate-ovate; macrospores whitish or yellowish, densely ver- 

 ruculose; microspores whitish or pale-orange, provided with crowded, 

 short, subconical, clavate or stipitate-capitate projections. 



Sumatra. 



(184) S. polystachya, w>ro., in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., 

 I 4 , 702; S. Wattichii, Spring, var. polystachya, Warb., Mons., I, 106. 



Near S. Wallichii Spring, but the pinnulae broader, to nearly 10 mm. 

 broad; spikes terminal, 3 5 or rarely 2 on a pinnula; macrospores 

 yellowish- white, provided with conical projections of which those placed 

 in the equatorial line are the largest; "microspores capitate- verruculose. 



Sumatra. 



(185) $1. Schiltlei, Hferon., in litt. 



The description of this species has not yet been received by me. 



Sumatra (?). 



(186) H. periiititata, jrforon., Hedwi., L, 24; S. Lobbii, Bk., (not 

 Moore), Journ. of Bot,, XVIII, 217. 



Shoots erect from a short-creeping base, 25 35 cm. long, branched 



