103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTELICAE. 47S 



United with S. firabriata Spring by intermediates with long-acuminate 

 or short-cuspidate intermedial leaves. 



War. polyura : Differs from the type in having the lateral leaves 

 remote (even on the branchlets) and proportionally shorter and broader. 



War. Backer!: Differs from the type in having the branches 

 narrower, the lateral leaves approximate on the main rachis, rather close 

 on the bi-anches and not rarely subimbricat6 on the branchlets, the spikes 

 narrower, 1 — I'/a nam. broad. 



(167a?) S. ornata, Spr»«^, Mon., II, 269 ; S. brachystacJuja, Spring, 

 var. ornata, Bk., Fern All., 11-3, p. p.; Lycopodium ornatum., Hk. d- Grev., 

 Hk., Bot. Misc., Ill, 108. 



Shoots probably suberect, 3-pinnate; pinnae plumose; lateral leaves 

 horizontally pectinate, oblong, slightly falcate, blunt, denticulate on the 

 upper edge ; intermedial leaves ovate, mucronate, denticulate ; spikes 

 nearly 2 '/i cm. long. — The systematical place of this species is uncertain 

 because of incomplete description. 



A plant gathered by C. .1. Brooks (Bengkoelen, Lebong Tanclai, No. 

 31,'S) agrees very well with Spring's brief diagnosis of this except that 

 the intermedial leaves are cuspidate, and the spikes shorter. It is 

 distinguished by its regularly feathery aspect, and has the intermedial 

 leaves ovate, more or less broadly and obliquely adnate at the non- 

 auriculate-cordate base, the spikes I'/i — 2 mm. broad, the lateral sporo- 

 phylla blunt, minutely denticulate, the intermedial sporophylla ovate, 

 long-acuminate, minutely serrulate, the macrospores whitish, smooth or 

 very indistinctly punctulato-verruculose, the microspores whitish or very 

 pale-orange, densely minutely punctulato-verruculose. 



Sumatra. 



A\ f>LElO$TELlCAE. 



(176ff) See No. 192. 



(1766) S. neiuorosa, v. a. «. »., in Bull. Btz., t9i6, XXIII, 26. 



Shoots erect, to 60 cm. high, the lower part thick, stipitiform, 3-stel- 

 ical, with a few reduced pinnae, sparingly foliate with small, scattered, 

 subisomorphoQS, ovate, blunt or acute, erected leaves, the upper part 



