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ones minutely puberulous beneath, the costae minutely scaly towards the 

 base beneath; costulae minutely bullato-squamulose beneath; veins simple, 

 + 4 — 5 on a side. Sori medial; sporangia intermixed with capilliform 

 paraphyses which are much longer than the sporangia. 

 Borneo. 



(9) A. eoiuiuiitata, Mett.} Cyathea recommutata, Co|)e^., in Philipp. 

 Journ., IVC, 36. 



Also in Borneo. 



(10) A. trichodesiiia. Seort.} Cyathea trichodesma, CopeL, in 

 Philipp. Journ., IV*^, 55. 



[lla) A.. caloc4»iiia, Chrigt; Cyathea calocoma, CopeL., in Philipp. 

 Journ., lyc, 53. 



dl^) A. Mauiiianni. Huhn, Forschr. G-az., IV, Fame, 13. 



Stipe shortly tuberculate, as is the rachis, ferrugineous, densely clothed 

 at the base beneath with long, white, elongate-la,nceolate scales, naked 

 above. Fronds 2-pinnato-pinnatipartite ; secondary rachises tuberculate- 

 muricate, clothed above with pale-grey hairs. Pinnae short-stalked, elongate- 

 lanceolate, up to 45 cm. long, 16 — 18 cm. broad. Pinnulae sessile, 

 subapproximate, spreading-divaricating, linear-oblong, falcate, obtuse, some- 

 what crenulate at the apex. Texture subchartaceous ; upper surface dark, 

 lower bright-green, provided with scattered, palmate scales and filiform hairs; 

 veins slender, subprominent, forked at the base. Sori subcostular, at the 

 forkings of the veins, contiguous, + 5^ 8 on each side ; capsules inter- 

 mixed with long, articulated hairs. — The specimen gathered by 

 Dr. Versteeg (Dutcli Neio G^iinea) has the secondary rachises distinctly 

 hairy above, very sparingly punctulato-tuberculate, rather smooth, the 

 pinnulae abruptly acuminate at the apex, for the rest deeply pinnatifid into 

 numerous approximate, linear-oblong, blunt lobes ± 1 cm. long and 4 

 mm. broad, with the edges crenate, the crenations 2-crenate, the costulae 

 bullato-squamulose beneath, pinnate in the lobes vdth + 10—11 veins on 

 each side, the higher veins simple, the central and lower forked or 

 2-furcate. 



New Guinea; New Pommern. 



