40 COPELAND. 



1.5 in broads tripinnate; middle pinnse the largest, 80 cm long; pinnules 

 12 cm long, 20 to 25 mm broad, abruptly acuminate; secondary pinnules 

 12 mm long, 3 mm broad, sessile, cordate or the upper ones adnate, 

 subacute, serrulate, herbaceous, glabrous except for straw-colored scales 

 on the costae and sometimes on the veins; veinlets forked at the base; 

 sori costular, 1.5 mm wide; indusium almost white, very thin, breaking 

 early into persistent, silky fragments. 

 Luzon, Mindoro, Negros. 



33. Cyathea tomentosa (Bl.) Zoll. & Moritz. 



Trunk 8 m high, 20 cm in diameter, densely clothed at the top with 

 light-brown scales 2 to 5 cm long, as are also the bases of the stipes; fronds 

 up to 2.5 m long, 1.4 m broad, tripinnate; pinnae subsessile, up to 25 cm 

 broad; rachis of pinna densely hairy above, beneath spinulose, densely 

 clothed with minute lacerate squamules, and bearing copious linear, 

 sparsely ciliate, rufous-fulvous scales almost 2 cm long; pinnules sessile, 

 broadest (15 mm) at the base, gradually acuminate, eostse hairy above, 

 densely clothed beneath with very hairy tawny scales; secondary pinnules 

 adnate, only the lowest ones free, subentire, obtuse, falcate, coriaceous, 

 convex, glabrous above, eostule scaly and hairy beneath and the veinlets 

 sparsely hairy; veinlets 8 to 12 on a side, mostly forked; sori costular, 

 covered by scales, exindusiate. 



Java. 



34. Cyathea lepifera (J. Sm.) Copel. (Alsophila lepifera J. Sm. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. 3 (1841) 419). 



This fern has been collected only by Cuming, and has been reduced to 

 C. tomentosa, from which it is very distinct. It is much nearer to the 

 next species, C. crinita, but has narrower pinnules, cut almost throughout 

 to the costa, the costa less scaly, the secondary pinnules somewhat glau- 

 cous beneath, and the long scales on the rachises with few pale marginal 

 setae. 



Luzon (Camarines Sur). 



35. Cyathea crinita (Hook.) Copel. (Alsophila crinita Hooker, Icones (1844) 

 pi. 671). 



A tall tree; stipe and flexuose main rachis stramineous, rough with 

 minute points and with many black-tipped small spines; rachises pilose 

 above, clothed beneath with lacerate squamulae and rather deciduous, 

 tawny, acicular scales 1 mm long, more or less, with dark marginal setae: 

 pinnse 60 cm long, 25 cm broad; pinnules sessile, 25 mm broad at the 

 base, acuminate, cut to the costa at the very base, elsewhere to a narrow 

 wing; costa and costules hairy above, densely clothed beneath with 

 lacerate scales larger than the small ones on the rachis; segments obtuse, 

 falcate, the lowest crenate-lobed, becoming entire upward, coriaceous; 



