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101. Cyathea fenicis Copel. Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 3 (1908) 354. 



Trunk 9 cm thick, said to be Imt 1 m high; stipe GO cm long, dark- 

 brown, prickly with short, sharp spines, bearing two small, simply pinnate 

 pinnae just above the base, and clothed at the base with a few narrow, 

 brown scales 15 mm long, otherwise glabrous, as are the slightly roughish 

 rachises; largest pinna? 35 to 40 cm long, 20 cm wide, abruptly narrowed 

 to a pinnatifid apex; pinnules about 10 cm long, hardly 2 cm broad, 

 sessile, cut at the base to the costa, elsewhere to a wing, costa hairy above, 

 mostly glabrous beneath; segments 4 mm broad, obtuse, obscurely serru- 

 late, costules bearing a few small scales beneath, lamina glabrous, thin, 

 dark-green above, olive beneath ; veinlets forked ; sori globose, less than 1 

 mm wide, pale, costular, exindusiate. 



Batanes Islands (Santo Domingo de Basco). 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Alsophila saparuensis v.A.v.R. in Bull. Dept. Agr. Ind. Neerl. 18 (1908) 2. 



Fronds ample, tripinnatifid, firm but not rigid; stipe prickly, clothed 

 with deciduous yellow or brown indument; rachis rough beneatb, fibrillose 

 above; middle pinnae the largest, about 45 cm long, 12 to 16 cm wide, 

 lanceolate, acuminate; pinnules sessile, the lowest ones horizontal, the 

 middle ones the largest, about' 15 mm wide; segments crowded, obtuse, 

 erenate or dentate at the apex; sori medial; indusia false, of minute, 

 round, flat scales. 



Kaparna. 



Alsophila bongardiana Mett. 



Differs from C. extensa in having the "segments broader, entire, rather 

 glaucous below, with copious scattered scales, veins more distant and 

 obscure." It has the aspect of C. contaminans. 



Bon in. 



Alsophila khasyana Moore. 

 Khasya. 



Alsophila xantholepis Christ. 

 Batjan. 



Hemitelia capensis R. Br. 



Reported in Java by Blume, Enumeratio 247, probably by mistake. 



2. BALANTIUM Kaulfuss. 



Caudex erect, but usually not rising much above the ground ; fronds 3 

 or 4 times pinnate, deltoid, the ultimate pinnules oblique, more developed 

 at the base on the acroscopic side; fertile and sterile pinnules alike, the 

 fertile teeth not coriaceous; annulus usually oblique and uninterrupted. 

 A small genus with one species in Polynesia, one in Australia, two in this 



