54 ALSOPHILA. 



ovate slightly falcate obtuse, veins generally forked, buUate 

 scales none, receptacles small slightly elevated. (Tab. XX. 

 A.) A. comosa, Jf'all. Cat. n. 319. — ft. pinnules more deeply 

 pinnalifid, segments narrower, veins oftener once or twice 

 forked, scales of the stipes more permanent. 



Hab. Singapore, Wallich. Java, MUlett.—^. Ceylon, Mrs. Gen. Walker. 

 Ill many respects tbis resembles tbe preceding, A. gigantea ; but it is more 

 delicate in textm-e, paler in color, tbe veins mostly forked, tbe receptacles 

 less elevated. — Tbe var. ^. may be a distinct species; yet I can discover no 

 tangible differences except tbe above, to wbicb may be added tbat tbe 

 fronds are of a ratber firmer and more coriaceous texture. 



53. A. crinita, Hook.; stipes and main flexuose rachis pale 

 colored rough with minute points and muricated with very 

 short black spines, fronds bipinnate coriaceous, rachis every- 

 where hairy above beneath clothed as well as the costa with 

 ciliated scales some short and minute the majority very long 

 slender appressed resembling coarse shaggy hair, pinnides 

 sessile narrow-lanceolate gradually tapering into a very slen- 

 der point deeply pinnatifid almost to the rachis, segments nar- 

 row ovate oblong rather obtuse falcate the margin (when dry) 

 strongly recurved, paler beneath where the costa and even the 

 veins are often hairy, veins forked, soii occupying nearly the 

 whole length and breadth of the segments and in a measure 

 covered by the crinite scales. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 671. 



Hab. Ceylon, Mrs. General Walker, n. 34 and 41. — A very remarkable 

 species, not like any otber tbat I am acquainted witb. It bas tbe dark 

 minute tuberculations on a pale stipes and main racbis, wbicb I bave de- 

 scribed on Cyathea mechillaris. The main racbis too, and tbe racbis of tbe 

 pinnffi, altbougb stout, are waved or flexuose : and tbey are beneatb quite 

 sbaggy witb copious scales; tbese are of two kinds, at least upon tbe main 

 racbis, some of tbem being exceedingly small, but tbe majority are long, 

 slender, subulate, more or less appressed, gradually smaller on tbe costae, 

 where tbey partially cover and conceal tbe copious fructifications. 



54. A. lepifera, J. Sm. ; main rachis studded with dark shin- 

 ing prominent points or tubercles scarcely aculeated, fronds 

 bipinnate, pinnules sessile broadest at the base narrow-lan- 

 ceolate tapering into a very long slender subulate point, seg- 

 ments linear-oblong falcate rather obtuse somewhat glaucous 

 beneath, costa below with a few flattish pale-colored scales, 

 the lertile rather contracted and the margin a little recurved, 

 veins forked, sori occupying the whole underside of the seg- 

 ments. A. lepifera, J. Sm. in En. Fil. Philip, {name only). 



Hab. South Caraarines, Cuming. — The lower portion of the main rachis 

 is studded like the preceding with prominent black shining points ; the up- 

 per portion is clothed with long appressed coarsish hairs, both have a few 

 long, slender, crinite scales, which induce me to think the plant may be an 

 oldstateof the preceding, from which the scales have fallen. Tbe shape 



