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A spécimen gathered on Moimt Tonglon (leg. :Ramos) agrées 

 very well with Copeland's description of G. fuliginosa, but the 

 stipe is pale-brown, rather aculeate with small, siiarp, conical 

 warts, and the sori provided with a distinct, though not too large, 

 hemitelioid indusium. 



Luzon. 



Ileiiiitelîa ereiiiiBata, iftett,. Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., 



I, 55; V. A. V. R., Mal. Ferns, 27. 



Trunk up to 3 m high, 5 cm thick. Stipes différent in 

 length, often bearing some much reduced pinnae at the base. 

 Fronds oblong, ca 140—150 cm long. Pinnae short-stalked, 

 lanceolate, to ca 45 cm long. Pinnulae approximate, rather sessile 

 or short-stalked, oblong, 6 — 10 cm long, obtuse, the apex nar- 

 rowed, subentire or crenulate, the margin eut down nearly or 

 quite to the costa. Segments (lobes or leaflets) rather close, oblong 

 or elongate-oblong, ca V^/o mm long, subfalcate, obtuse, entire or 

 crenulate. Texture membranaceous or herbaceous, flaccid orfirm; 

 surfaces naked ; upper surface bright-green, low^er paler; rachises 

 stramineous or subfuscous, hirsute above, deciduously tomentose, 

 fibrillose or furfuraceous beneath, with the pubescence intermixed 

 with few subulate, fuscous scales, at length often naked; costae 

 hairy above, costae and costulae beneath provided with more or 

 less scattered, minute, bullate, acuminate, pale or brownish scales; 

 veins 6 — 9 on a side. Sori costular, 1 — 6 on a side, occupying 

 the lower veins; indusium small*. 



Forma typica: Rachises smooth or very nearly so; low^er and 

 central veins forked, higher simple. — Java, Sumatra, Philippines. 



Var. !*ul>!«iiHpiieiveiBia: Rachides gibbis minutissime 

 tuberculiformibus dense asperae: venae simplices vel 1 — 4 infe- 

 riores interdum regulariter sive irregulariter furcatae.— Java 

 {Mount Slamat, C. A. Backer No. 379). 



HeiniteBîa ««iiniatraiia. t\ A. r. Mi.. Mal. Fems, 

 28; Cyathea Alderwereltii, Copel, Philipp. Journ. Sci., IV*^, 50. 



Fronds 3-pinatifid, sub-3-pinnate ; main and secondary rachises 

 fuscous, asperous to muricate with numerous short, blunt or sharp, 

 dark-tipped warts, densely rusty-tomentose above, deciduously 

 ferrugineo-furfuraceous beneath, the pubescence intermixed with 

 many more or less scattered, deciduous, linear-subulate, spreading 



