244 APPENDIX. 103. SELAGINELLA. 



including the lateral leaves; ultimate branchlets I 3 .4 mm. broad. Leaves 

 heteromorphous; lateral leaves rather remote on the stem, contiguous on 

 the branchlets; of the stem spreading or more ascending, ovate-oblong, 

 blunt or bluntish, the upper side minutely serrulate towards the apex, 

 gradually shortly spinuloso-ciliate towards the rotundate-cuneate base, the 

 lower side obscurely serrulate towards the apex, entire towards the 

 gradually narrowed base, the largest leaves 2 mm. long by 1 mm. broad; 

 of the branchlets smaller, suberect; intermedial leaves erect, subfalcate- 

 ovate, shortly mucronate-acuminate, very minutely serrulate, the inner 

 side narrowly pellucid-margined, the base adnate, obliquely rotundate- 

 cuneate, or narrowly rotundate-truncate on the outer side ; of the stem 

 the largest, 1 mm. long. Spikes solitary, 3 6 mm. long, ! 3 /4 mm broad; 

 sporophylla of the upper plane spreading, elongate-oblong, bluntish, to 1V4 

 mm. long, keeled, the upper side narrowly pellucid-margined, sparingly 

 and minutely serrulate towards the apex, ciliolate towards the base, the 

 keel minutely serrulate; of the lower plane ascending, triangular-ovate, 

 long-acute, spinuloso-ciliolate, slightly keeled; macrospores bright-yellow or 

 yellow- white, or ochraceous- white, smooth, opaque; microspores minium- 

 red or ferrugineous, smooth. 

 Mindanao. 



(145) S. philippina, Spring; var. longiciliata, Hieron., 



Leafl., VI, 2032. 



War. longiciliata: Lateral leaves longer acuminated; sporo- 

 phylla of the lower plane longer ciliated. Luzon. 



(145o) See No. 1496. 



(149o) S. Moseleyi, Xf.Vron., Leafl., VI, 2034. 



Shoots erect, or ascending from a short-creeping base, 8 10 cm. 

 long, 3-pinnate from the base, the stem compresso-terete, stramineous, 

 grooved when dry, V 3 /< mm. thick, 2 'A mm. broad including the lateral 

 leaves; pinnae to 3 cm. long, the rachis 1Y 2 mm. broad; ultimate 

 branchlets very short, to 1 mm. broad. Leaves heteromorphous; lateral 

 leaves oblique, remote; of the stem oblique-ovate or ovate-oblong, acute 

 or subacuminate, pellucid-margined, the upper side minutely serrulate 

 towards the apex, otherwise remotely ciliate, rotundate at the base, the 

 lower side entire or subentire, obsoletely denticulate towards the apex, 



