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of the pinnules is not different; they arc less coriaceous, and die underside 

 is slinhlly glaucous. 



55. A.? (Clinoo])liora) tomeniosa,!^}.; "arborescent uiiarin- 

 ed, frond bipinnate coriaccons densely clothed beneath with 

 fulvous tonientum, ])innules lanceolate acuminate dec])ly pin- 

 natilid, the segments linear obtuse nearly straight the margin 

 slightly crenulate and revolute, common rachis tonientose 

 whitish above paleaceous beneath," Bl. Chnoophora ? to- 

 mentosa, Bl. En. Fil. J a v. p. 244. 



Hab. Woods on the lofty mountains of Gede, Java, Blumc. 



56. A. (Chnoojihora) lurida^ Bl. ; " arborescent unarmed, 

 frond bipinnate coriaceous, costa) beneath and the secondary 

 racliis ])aleaceo-hirsute, ])innuks lanceolate acuminate deeply 

 pinnatifid the segments linear subfalcate obtuse crenulate re- 

 curved at the margin, common rachis shining above hairy be- 

 neath." Chnoophora lurida, Bl. En. Fil. Jar. p. '244. 



Hab. Mountain woods of Java and Celebes, J3lume. 



57. k.Hcenkei, Pr.; "fronds triplicato -pinnate, secondary 

 pinna; sessile linear cuspidate acuminate, pinnules oblong 

 obtuse subfalcate serrulate, stipes and primary and secondary 

 racliis muricated, tertiary paleaceo-hirsutc, costaj scaly be- 

 neath." Presl, Reliq. Hcank. v. i. p. 68. A. Marianna, Gaud, 

 in Freyc. J'oj/. Bot. p. 365. "Cvathea Marianna, Gaud. M.S 

 et Gen. p. 74;' {Freyc.) 



Hab. jNIariannc Islands (Guam), Hcenke, Gaudichaud. — Of this T know 

 notliin<.r, nor can much be learned from the more full descripiion given by 

 Gaudichaud. Although Presl himself adduces A. Marianna as a synonym 

 of A. HcBnkel, I cannot but feel doubtful on the point. Presl describes his 

 plant with an " Indusium planum lacero-multilidum," and he speaks of it 

 as allied to Pol. Iwiulatum, Torst., and Cjiatheacxlvnsa, Sw. Gaudichaud 

 also quotes, though (loul)tfully, Cyatkeu cxlensa, Schkuhr, Fil. p. 127, t. 

 132, not even excluding the ligures D, E, and F, where the fructification 

 is truly the cup of a Cyathea. 



Doubtful Species of the East Indies. 



58. A. Manillensis, Presl, in Mey. Herb. (v. Presl, Tent. 

 Pterid. p. 62). 



59. A. WalUchiann, Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 62. " Polypo- 

 dium e Silhet Mountains," Pr. 



60. A. fflauccscens, Wall. Cat. n. 7074. Mountains of Syl- 

 het, IV. Gomez. "Allied to A. Brunoniana, Wall, (supra, j). 

 52, u. 50). 



61. A. Gyerilleana, Wall. Cat. n. 7U75. Mountains of Syl- 

 liet, W. Gomez. 



