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more sparingly ciliate or ciliolate and serrulate, the upper base rather 

 rounded, the lower base hardly cordate; intermedial leaves erect; of the 

 main rachis somewhat remote, subfalcate-ovate, the largest i 1 ' 2 mm. 

 long, acuminate, keeled, serrulate in the upper half, ciliate at the base, 

 the inner base rouded, the outer base produced, auriculate-cordate, the 

 the auricle hamato-incurvate ; of the branches growing gradually smaller; 

 of the branchlets imbricate, oblong, bluntish or subacute, more sparingly 

 serrulate, not ciliated at the base, the inner base rotundate-cuneate, the 

 outer base rotundate-subcordate. Spikes solitary and terminal on the 

 branchlets, square, to + 1 cm. long, ''., — 1 mm. diam, ; sporophylla 

 ascending, at length spreading, broadly ovate, to ^,, mm. long, bluntish 

 or acute, keeled, minutely serrulate; macrospores yellowish-white, rugulose. 

 the rumples more or less reticulate, the apical ribs encircled by a ring- 

 shaped crest ; microspores yellowish or pale orange, provided with bacilliform 

 or stipitate-capitate projections on the basal side. 

 Celebes. 



P. 536; Insert: 



(200a) S. asperiili|>e$«, ». A. v. n. 



Shoots erect from a creeping base, 75 — 100 cm. high, the lower part 

 simple, stipitiform, 6 — 9-stelical, finely punctulato-asperulous, when dry 

 stramineous, irregularly grooved, 3 — 4 mm. thick towards the base, the 

 upper part pinnately compound, the axillary leaves of the main rachis 

 subpetiolulate, broadly ovate, to 6 mm. long, to 4'/., mm. broad at or 

 below the middle, blunt to subacute, narrowly plicate at the base ; pinnae 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, ascending, to 20 cm. long, not rarely prov- 

 ided with axillary accessory pinnae which are articulated at the base, the 

 rachis + 7 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; pinnulae crowded, 

 much ascending, the largest to 4 em. long, simple or forked, the axillary 

 leaves elongate-obovate, conspicuously 2-auriculate at the base, the auricles 

 revolute or plicate; ultimate branchlets 4 — 6 mm. broad, narrowed gradually 

 towards the apex, the terminal ones often much elongated and caudiform. 

 Leaves heteromorphous, entire; lateral leaves remote on the stipe, 

 contiguous or slightly imbricate on the branchlets ; of the stem lanceolate- 

 oblong, the lower rather erect, the higher erecto-patent, the largest 

 S'/i— 4V4 mm. long, ± I'/j mm. broad, acute or acuminate, the upper 

 side plicate-auriculate at the narrowed base, the lower side cordate at 



