224 103. SELAGINELLA. A. PLEIOSTELICAE. 



cordate-truncate, the largest leaves 4 mm. long, 1Y mm. broad; inter- 

 medial leaves erect; of the stem remote, ovate-oblong, 2 mm. long, blunt; 

 of the branchlets close, falcate-oblong, bluntly and shortly acuminate, the 

 inner side straight, the outer side rounded, the base obliquely adnate, 

 rather decurrent on the outer side. Spikes terminal, 1V 2 mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla broadly triangular-ovate, subacute or bluntish, entire, hardly 

 keeled; macrospores white, grey or brown, verrucose, the projections 

 roundish or shortly linear, rather low, the apical ribs encircled by 2 rows 

 of much higher projections; microspores whitish or yellowish, densely 

 verrucose, the projections roundish, free or connected. Accessory shoots 

 articulated at the base and springing from the axils of the pinnae. 

 Java. 



(202) S. padangensis, Hieron., Hedwi., L, 34. 



Shoots ascending from a creeping base, the lower part simple, 

 sparingly foliate, the upper part compound, ovate or obovate, the stem 

 grooved, 5 7-stelical, to 6 mm. thick, puberulous, at length glabrescent 

 and smooth or minutely tuberculato-asperous, stramineous; pinnae often 

 distinctly articulated to the main rachis, branched from the base, the rachis 

 9 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; lower pinnulae sub-2-pinnate, 

 higher repeatedly dichotomous or simply forked; branches of the lower 

 pinnulae pinnately or dichotomously branched; ultimate branchlets to 6 

 mm. broad. Lateral leaves of the stem unequal-sided, subfalcate-ovate, sub- 

 acute, more or less narrowly pellucid-margined on both sides, entire, 

 obliquely cordate at the base, the largest leaves 2 J /2 mm. long, IVs mm. 

 broad ; of the branches obliquely falcate-oblong, subacute or subobtuse, the 

 upper base auricled, rounded, the auricle revolute, diaphanous, the lower 

 base cordate to truncate, the margin bounded by a narrow, decoloured 

 line on both sides, the largest leaves B mm. long, 1V mm. broad near the 

 base, those of the branchlets Vs Vz as long; intermedial leaves of the stem 

 subfalcate-ovate, subobtuse, entire, narrowly pellucid-margined, the inner 

 base rounded, the outer base subauriculate-cordate, the largest leaves 

 3 mm. long; of the branches falcate-ovate, equal-sided, the outer base 

 decurrent or adnate-auriculate, the inner base subtruncate-rotundate, the 

 apex short-bluntish, the margin bounded by a narrow, decoloured line, the 

 largest leaves 2Vi mm. long, hardly 1 mm. broad at the middle. Spikes 

 square, 5 16 mm. long, I 1 /* mm. diam., solitary on the branchlets; 

 sporophylla subdeltoid, shortly acutely mucronate, pale-green, keeled, the 



