3. ALSOPHILA. 61 



(13c) A. Schlechteri, JVrau., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., XL, 15, fig. ID. 



Fronds to 2 m. long, 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae to 50 cm. long, to 15 cm. 

 broad or broader, remote, long-acuminate. Pinnulae sessile, remote, lanceolate, 

 the largest + 8 cm. long, 1^/4 cm. broad, deeply pinnatifid, or pinnate 

 at the truncate base, the apex long-acuminate and rather crenate, the 

 base not or sUghtly narrowed; lower pinnae horizontal, higher more 

 ascending. Segments dimorphous ; barren segments approximate, subfalcate, 

 to I'/a cm. long and '/j cm. broad, entire in the lower part, serrate or 

 2-serrate towards the bluntish apex, the central spreading, the lower 

 horizontal or deflexed ; fertile segments contracted, more distant. Texture 

 coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; upper surface dark-green, lower paler ; rachises 

 fuscous, glossy, above hairy, beneath short-hairy and brown-scaly, glabres- 

 cent; veins simple or forked. Sori numerous, medial. 



New Ghiinea. 



(14) A.. H'allacei, Metf.; Cyathea WaUacei, Gopel, in Philipp. 

 Journ., IVC, 48. 



(15j A. iiioflesta, Bh.; Cyathea modesta, Copel , in Philipp Journ., 

 IVC, 48. 



Q6) A. caudata, J. Sm. 



Omit this species, it being referred to Hemitelia. 



(16a) j%. tliiiiorpliolricBia, ». A. ». K.; Cyathea dimmyhotricha, 

 Copel, in Leafl., V, 1681. 



Stipes ± 30 cm long, below brown and densely clothed with red 

 hairs or scales. Fronds + 2 m. long, the rachis fulvous, smooth or roughish, 

 grooved, soon naked except in the pale-hairy furrow above. Pinnae short- 

 stalked, + 40 — 45 cm. long, rather suddenly acuminate, the rachis villose 

 above with long, crowded, adpressed, pale-yellow-brown or pale-ochraceous 

 hairs, glabrescent beneath. Pinnulae horizontal, subsessile, to + 9 cm. long, 

 ± 1 Vi cm. broad, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid, the costa laxly clothed 

 beneath with long, pale hairs and caudate, fimbriate scales. Lower 

 segments rounded at the apex, bluntly serrulate, connected at the base 

 by a hyaline wing; costulae beneath pilose and sparingly scaly with ovate, 

 bullate, long-cuspidate or flmbriate-caudate ; hair-pointed' scales; veins 

 + 10 on a side, the higher simple, the others forked or sometimes twice 



