52 COPELAND. 



to 40 cm long, 16 cm wide, long-stalked, their rachises asperona and 

 bearing sparse, minute, lacerate sqnamnles; pinnules crowded, sessile, 

 acuminate, 10 cm long, 18 mm wide, pinnate almost throughout, costse 

 beneath bearing a few minute, lacerate, whitish scales, glabrous or nearly 

 so above; secondary pinnules (i mm long, 2 mm wide, separate, mostly 

 adnate, obtuse, subfalcate, crenulate, often with involute margin, sub- 

 coriaceous, dull-green, darker above, glabrous above, costule beneath bear- 

 ing rather large whitish scales; veinlets about 10 on a side, mostly forked; 

 sori infra-medial, on most of the veinlets, covering the lamina, no 

 indusium seen. 

 Liu Kiu. 



73. Cyathea latebrosa (Wall.) Copel. {Alsophila latebrosa Wall, in Hooker, 

 Sp. Fil. 1 (1844) 37). 



A lofty tree; stipes dark-brown, very spiny, scurfy, and bearing at the 

 base a few linear, harsh, brown scales about 3 cm long ; frond very large, 

 lowest pinnae somewhat reduced and deflexed; rachis maroon, muricate, 

 scurfy with deciduous and very minute squamules; pinna? up to (50 cm or 

 more long, sessile or nearly so, acuminate, rachises from brownish-yellow 

 to almost maroon, glabrous or minutely scaly, rough with sparse, fine 

 prickles; pinnules sessile, up to 10 cm long, very acuminate, cut to a 

 narrow wing throughout or the lowest segments free, and adnate or not 

 so, costaa sparsely hairy above, bearing small, more or less bullate, some- 

 times irregular scales beneath; segments subfalcate, obtuse or acute, 

 serrulate or subentire, glabrous except for scales beneath on the costules, 

 subcoriaceous, bright-green above, somewhat paler beneath ; veinlets about 

 11 on a side, forked; sori infra-medial, distinct or finally confluent, 

 each subtended by a brown scale. This is a species originally inadequately 

 described from a Penang fern; Beddome's figure (F. S. I., pi. 58) does 

 not agree completely with the description; and my only Penang specimen 

 under this name seems to be C. contaniiiuuis. 



India to Formosa and Celebes. 



G. latebrosa var. major Christ in Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 183, has 

 a straw-yellow rachis, and the type collection had the trunk 120 cm high. 



74. Cyathea curranii Copel. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 3 (1908) 356. 



Trunk 3 m high, 20 cm thick, the leaf-scars 5 by 3 cm; stipe about 

 35 cm long, maroon, tuberculate, bearing thin, soft, tawny scales which 

 are up to 63 mm long, entire unless at the tip, long-attenuate, 4. mm 

 wide at the base, cordate, or rounded and peltate ; frond about 1 m long, 

 half as wide; rachis bearing sparse, small, deciduous, lanceolate paleae, 

 rough with small but numerous, usually very blunt tubercles, brown, 

 dorsal surface hairy, secondary rachises similar but less tuberculate, and 

 dark-maroon in color; lowest pinna? long-stalked, reduced and deflexed; 

 median ones 35 cm long, 17 cm wide, short-stalked; pinnules sessile, 9 cm 

 long, 1 cm wide, long-attenuate, pinnate, costa naked on both sides, almost 



