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margin curved upwards at the acute point, nearly equal sided, the base 
semi-cordate, with a small auricle on the lower side, i£-2 li. 1. f li. w. 
not expanded within ; margins plain or faintly serrate on the rounded 
but unenlarged upper side. Minor leaves lanceolate-acuminate, or on 
the main rachises subovate, attached by the base of the inner side, that 
of the outer being extended below this into a small auricle, ^-f li. 1. ; 
margin not ciliated. Texture firm ; rachises stiff ; colour bright green. 
Spikes 2-5 li. 1. enlarged at the base with the large macrospores ; bracts 
keeled, edges naked, slightly spreading. 
Var. S. stellata, Spring, Mon. Lycop. II, p. 228. Fl. Brasil.p. 129. — 
Branches rather narrower, and the leaves consequently smaller. Fronds 
more regularly pinnate than flabellate, the main rachis extending into 
a long radicant tail. Spikes 4-6 li., 1. quadrate. 
Var. fedata, Klotzsch, in Linnaea xxviii, 521.— Leaves rather smaller 
and the branches consequently narrower, spikes quadrate, from J-i in. 1. 
Gathered by all colle6lors. Well marked by its ereft, 
flabellate, or often digitate habit, zigzag rachises, and the 
leaves of both kinds slightly auricled on the outer side 
at the base. As the leaves do not overlap the rachises, 
the latter are exposed beneath, but above they are quite 
concealed in all the outer branches. The short spikes 
are often bent aside by the large macrospores being on 
one side, and when very short are as broad as long, looking 
nut-like at the ends of the branches. Sometimes the 
fronds or stems produce depauperated branches with 
small, lax, rather rounded leaves, which look like a totally 
different species. None of the states of this species is 
quite constant to a fixed outline of frond, and in any good 
set of specimens it varies from digitate or flabellate, to 
regularly pinnatiform. The varieties have the same range 
as the type. 
General distribution — Guiana and the Brasils. 
§§ Leaves of two kinds, major and minor. Bracts also of two kinds, 
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