THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. VI 
DECEMBER, 1911 
Xo. 6 
CYATHEAE SPECIES NOVAE ORIENTALES. 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland. 
{From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Bafios, P. I.) 
Cyathea subsessilis Copel. sp. nov. 
Fronde llJpm alta, 40 cm lata, subsessile, utrinque angustata; stipite 
5 cm vel ultra alto, sparse tuberculato, supra paleis fuscis 2 cm longi? 
omato; rhaclii sursum glabrescente inerme, deorsum simul stipitis; pinnis 
infimis sensim valde reduetis, medialibus 22 cm longis, subsessilibus, 
acutis, rhachibus quadratis, supra hirsutis, infra glabris, inennibus ; piii- 
nulis 3-4 em longis, 10-12 mm latis, sessilibu-s obtusis, bubcoriaccis, fere 
ad costam pinnatifidis, costa supra setosa, aliter glabris; ^egmentis 5 mm 
longis, 3 mm latis, rotundatis, subintegris; venis utroijuc latere 3-5, 
plerumque furcatus et in ala soriferis, soris subeostularibus, indusio uUrdo, 
laete brunneo, primo mammiforme. 
Samoa, Savaii, Maugaloa, Vaupel, Plant ae Samoenses m. Marcli, 1909. 
A decidedly peculiar and distinct species. 
Cyathea deorsilobata Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhachi fere 2 cm crassa glabra, brunnea, aculeolata; pinna 65 cm longa, 
25 cm lata, brevistipitata, rhachi minutius tuberculata, glabrescente; pin- 
nulis sessilibus, 12.5 cm longis, 3 cm latis, caiidatis, rhax^hi deorsum 
infra minute furfuracea, supra pilis sparsis ochroleucis ornata, sursum 
glabra- pinnulis " infimis subsessilibus, sequentibus adnatis falcatis, ob- 
tusis, herbaceis, supra costaque glabris atroviridibus, infra minutissime 
hirsutis, parte infcriore pinnulae quaeque fertile et inciso-serrata, versus 
apices integris; venis utroque latere ca. 15, inferioribus bis furcahs; sons 
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