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purveyed above with partly grey partly red-brown tomentum, when young 

 beneath probably ochraceo-furfuraceous. Pinnae subsessile or very shortly 

 petiolulate, the higher oblique, the following horizontal or nearly so, 

 approximate, the lower reduced, not rarely somewhat deflexed, remote; 

 largest pinnae linear-sublanceolate, 30 cm. more or less long, about 8 cm. 

 broad at the middle. Pinnulae approximate, the higher sessile, obhque, 

 the lower subsessile, horizontal or subdeflexed, abbreviated; largest pinnulae 

 linear-oblong, 4 — 5 cm. long, 1 — 1 '/^ cm. broad, straight or subfalcate, 

 blunt to bluntly short-acuminate, truncate and slightly narrowed at the 

 base. Ultimate segments approximate, linear-oblong, nearly horizontal, 

 to '/, cm. long and 2 — O'/j mm. broad, blunt, crenulate towards the 

 apex. Texture papyraceous, when fresh pale-yellow-green; surfaces naked; 

 costae hirsute above, like the costulae sparingly squamulose beneath, the 

 scales pale, sublanceolate, buUate; veins to 8 — 9 on a side, the higher 

 simple, the others mostly forked. Sori costular, occupying the 1 — 2 

 'or more ?) lower veins; receptacle encircled by a moderately large, 

 mostly regularly orbicular, flat or shallowly saucer-shaped, membranaceous 

 scale. 



Simiatra. 



(21) A. fuliginosa, Chfists Cyathea fiiliginosa, Copel, in Philipp. 

 Journ., lY^, 43, p. p. 



(22) A. lepifera, J. «»».,• Cyathea lepifera, C>peL, in Philipp. 

 Journ., lyo, 40. 



This fern has been collected only by Cuming, and has been reduced 

 to A. tomentosa Hk. from which it is very distinct. (Copel.). 



(23) A. batjanensis, fJhrist; Cyathea batjanensis, Copel, in 

 Phihpp. Journ., IV^, 45. 



(24) A. melanopus, Hassle.; Cyathea melanopus, Copel, in Philipp. 

 Journ., lyc, 48. 



Stipes aculeate and deciduously fusco-puberulous and densely, but 

 deciduously, scaly at the base, for the rest roughish and somewhat scaly 

 hke the rachis ; secondary rachises rufo-tomentose above ; costae tomentose 

 above, and, like the costulae, naked or somewhat squamulose beneath, 

 the scales ovate, acuminate; sori covering '/i — '/* of the lobes. 

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