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leaves remote and horizontal or deflexed on the main rachis, approximate 

 and subhorizontal on the branchlets, mucronulate, the mucro divided into 

 + 8 — 5 crowded, tooth-like fibres, the upper side sparingly ciliolate- 

 serrulate, the lower side entire, or sparingly serrulate towards the apex; 

 of the main rachis unequal-sided, obliquely ovate, the upper side rounded, 

 broadly rotundate-cuneate at the base, the lower side nearly straight, 

 narrowly truncate-cuneate at the base, the largest leaves + 5 mm. long 

 and 2'/2 mm. broad; of the branchlets less unequal-sided, oblong, rotund- 

 ate-cuneate at the base but more gradually on the upper side, the largest 

 leaves + 3 mm. long, + 1 mm. broad ; intermedial leaves erect, abruptly 

 cuspidate-acuminate, the cusp nearly '/» ^^ loi^g ^^ the blade ; of the 

 main rachis remote, slichtly unequal-sided, obovate-oblong, narrowly 

 rounded at the base, ciliolate but more sparingly on the inner side, the 

 largest leaves ± 4'/2 mm. long; of the branchlets much smaller, imbricate, 

 entire or sparingly ciliolate-serrulate, more narrowly rotundate cuneate at 

 the base. Spikes solitary and terminal on the branchlets, + 3 mm. 

 broad; sporophylla not very dimorphous, unequal-sided, ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, keeled, to + 3 mm. long; of the upper plane erecto-patent, 

 keeled, the lower spreading or recurved, the upper side irregularly ciliolate, 

 entire at the rotundate-cuneate base, the lower side entire, ciliolate- 

 serrulate at the base, the keel minutely serrulate ; of the lower plane 

 nearly similar, the upper side ciliolate-serrulate throughout, broadly 

 rounded at the base, the lower side sparingly ciliolate-serrulate ; spores. .. 

 New Guinea. 



(192) S. Pouzolziana, Spt^ng; — var. punctata, Hieron., in 

 Leafl., VI, 2050 ; var. angustiramosa, Hieron., MS. ; *S. punctata, A. Br., MS. 



According to Spring's diagnosis this species is said to have the 

 axillary leaves obovate, narrowed at the base, and the lateral leaves 

 entire. The specimens occurring in the Buitenzorg Herbarium have the 

 lower axillary leaves roundish, cordate or ovate at the base, bluntish or 

 subacute, broadest at or near the base, the intermedial leaves of the 

 stem rounded or somewhat cordate at the base, the ultimate branchlets 

 3 — 5 mm. broad with the lateral leaves whether or not somewhat dilated 

 on the lower side at the base and often, if not invariably, minutely 

 serrulate towards the apex like those of the stem, the spikes at length 

 2'/2 — 3 mm. diam. 



Forma typica : Lower pinnae bi'oadly ovate or triangular-ovate ; lower 



