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3. j\.LSOF»HILiA, «. Brown. 



(*1) A. wwotllarkensis, r. ^. ». Jt.,* Cyathea icoodlarkensis, 

 Copel., in Philipp. Journ., IX*^, 1. 



Stipes pale-brown, minutely pale-puberulous with the pubescence 

 intermixed with nearly black, firm, hairs or setae, as is the rachis. Fronds 

 2-pinnatifld. Pinnae numerous, linear-lanceolate, to + 40 cm. long by 

 3 — 4 cm. broad, deeply pinnatifld. Lobes very numerous, subfalcate, to 

 ± 2 cm. long by 3 mm. broad, obtuse, entire. Texture thinly coriaceous; 

 surfaces naked; costae and costulae more or less pilose; veins to 30 on^ 

 a side. Sori medial. 



New Guinea. 



(la) A. obliqiia. C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. ; Gyathea obliqua, Copel , 

 in Leaf!., IV, 1150. 



Stipes ± 60 cm. long, spinose and scaly at the base, the scales 

 pale; rachises purple-brown, glossy, above sulcate, pubescent especially 

 in the groove. Pinnae stalked, 30 — 35 cm. long, acuminate. Pinnulae 

 stalked, 5 — 7 cm. long, hardly 1 cm. broad, much acuminated, coarsely 

 serrate, the base obliquely cuneate, subtruncate on the upper side, more 

 narrowly cuneate on the lower side; costae and veins naked or sparingly 

 pilose, the former minutely paleaceous in the lower part. Sori medial. 



Sibuyan Island. 



(lb) Jk. siilicliiliia. e. A. ». «., in Bull. Btz., 1915, XX, 3. 



Trunk to 1 ','4 m. or more high. Stipes 35 cm. more or less long, 

 fuscous, densely scaly like the rachises, muriculato-asperous, the scales 

 partly deciduous, lanceolate-subulate, glossy, fusco-ferrugineous, finely eroso- 

 fimbriate, those of the stipe and main rachis intermixed with deciduous, 

 ochraceous furfur or tomentum, those of the secondary rachises growing 

 gradually smaller. Pinnae horizontal or nearly so, stalked, broadly 

 lanceolate, to about 50 cm. long and '/j as broad, acuminate, the rachis 

 brown-hairy above. Pinnulae to about 15 on each side below the terminal 

 one; terminal pinnulae long-triangular, serrate at the acuminate apex, 

 gradually deeply pinnatifid towards the base ; lateral pinnulae more or 

 less approximate, horizontal or nearly so, the higher more or less adnate, 

 somewhat ascending and passing subabruptly into the basal lobes of 

 the terminal one, the following shortly petiolulate, the lower more or 



