550 Maxon: ON THE IDENTITY OF CYATHEA MULTIFLORA 
Panama, ascending to 1,100 meters altitude; also reported from 
Peru. 
Besides the fragment of the Shakespeare type above men- 
tioned the following specimens are in the U. S. National Her- 
barium: 
NicaraGua: Banks of the Rio San Juan, Friedrichsthal. 
Chontales, in forest, Levy 465. 
GUATEMALA: Forest near Livingston, at sea-level, June, 1906, 
H1. von Tiirckheim 11. 1221. Same locality, February 18, 1905, 
C. C. Deam 483 (determined as Cyathea arborea). Same locality, 
January 18, 1905, Kellerman 5080. 
Costa Rica: Forét 4 Général, altitude 600 meters, Pittier 
3344. Fougeraies du Général, vallée du Diquis, altitude 700 
meters, Piitier 12027 (type collection of Alsophila decussata 
Christ). Cienegas de Cajfias Gordas, Pittier 10978. Cafias 
Gordas, altitude 1,100 meters, Pittier 10980. 
PANAMA: Laguna de Chiriqui and its neighborhood, J. Hart 
12, 29. Humid forest near Porto Bello, province of Colon, at 
sea-level, April 7, 1911, Maxon 5776. 
Finally, it may be pointed out that the small size of the original 
specimens of H. multiflora, and perhaps also of Presl’s type of 
H. nigricans, is further due to their having come from the upper 
part of a small frond. The type fragments of both are exactly 
matched by pinnules from the apical pinnae of the writer’s speci- 
mens from Panama (the only apical portions at hand), in which 
also two other perfectly diagnostic features are evident, namely, 
the conspicuously winged secondary rachises, and the peculiar 
long-acuminate apices of the pinnae. Both may be readily ob- 
served in the illustration herewith published. 
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Explanation of plate 35 
From a photograph of the original specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
British Museum (Natural History), from which the type of Cyathea multiflora was 
derived. Collected in “America meridionalis”’ by R. Shakespeare. About one third 
natural size. 
