.3^)0 COPELAND. 
in alls superioribus insertis, medialibus^ laete brunneis, indusio tenue, 
persistente. • 
Samoa, Savaii, Maugaloa, alt. 800 m, Vaupel, Plantae Samoenses 471, March, 
1006. 
Near C, affinis (Forst.) Swtz., but conspicuously ditferent in texture and in 
having the secondary pinnules broad and entire near the obtuse tip. C. 
suluensis Baker and C. Gumingii Baker, differ in having their pinnules entire 
throughout. 
Cyathfea leichardtiana (F. v. Muell.) Copel. comb. nov. 
Ahophila leichardtiana F. v. Muell. Fragm. 5 (1865) 53. 
We have this fern, from Killarney, from the Queensland Herbarium, under 
the name Alsophila ansfralis. The two are readily distinguished by the character 
of the rachis. 
Cyathea propinqua Mett. has been a veritable drag-net. The two following 
species received here under this name agree with it in the origin of the lowest 
inferior vein, naked rachises, and texture, but are otherwise very distinct, and 
the second is hardly to be; regarded as a near relative. 
Cyathea Vaupelli Copel, sp. nov. 
Species gregis C. propinquae Mett. et sub nomine illo distributa, sed 
facile ob. pinnam sessilem, pinnulam obtusam, eostam -infra minute 
squamuliferam et lacinias serrulatas distinguenda. Ehaehibus infra gla- 
bris, stramineis vel brunneis, inermibus; pinna ca. 40 cm longa, acuta; 
pinnulis sessilibus 6 cm longis, 17 mm latis, vix ad eostam pinnatifidis; 
fiegmentis 5 mm latis, obtusis; subfalcatis, sursuih serrulatis, glabris, her- 
baceis; venis utroque latere ca. 6 quarum plerumque 4 furcatis fertilibus; 
sons mediaiibus, indusio membranaceb, persistence. ' .' -- 
SAsrOA, 'Savaii, Vaipouli, Vaupel, Plantae Samoenses 18^. 
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Cyathea Betchei Copel, sp. nov. 
Ehaehibus infra glabris, stramineis, inermibus; pinna 60 cm longa, 
22 cm lata, stipitata; pinnulis infimis reductis et deflexis^ sequentibus 
stij)itatis, hoxizontalibus,. acuminatis, -usque ad 25 mm latis, deorsum ad 
eostam infra nigrescentem minutissime squamuliferis, supra pallide hir- 
sutis ; pinnulis " infimis vix adnatis rhachiscopice hastatis ; segmentis 
medialibus pmnulaei 3 mm latis, scrratis -sursum integrionbus, acutis, 
subfalcatis, herbaceis, supra atroviridibus glabrescentibus, infra pallidis 
secus marginem densius alibi sparse squamulis minutis albidis vestitis; 
venis utroque latere 10-12, plerisque, furcatis; soris medialibus, indusio 
globos6, "mtobrahaceo, non persistente. ' ' ' . 
Samoa, Upolu, leg. E. Betche, 1881. Comm. National Herbarium of New 
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Cyathea truncata (Brack.) Copel. £omb, nov. 
A/sopAi/a iruneafa Brack/U^^ {1854)"28D. 
Our speMmen {Vaupel^ Plan'fae Saviocnses 430), is a pinna nearly 60 cm long^l 
16 cm wide.. : il^eseoondary pinnules are auriculate on the u 
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