80 1. CYATHEA. 



cordate at the base, 1 'j^ cm. broad, narrowed gradually towards the apex, 

 cut down nearly to the costa, short-stalked, the petiole tomentose, the 

 costa castaneo-pilose above, scaly beneath with scattered, castaneous, 

 often lacerate squamules. Lobes oblong, 4 mm. broad, obtuse, crenulate. 

 Texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; veins ± 6 on a side. Sori medial; 

 indusium castaneous, rather persistent. 

 Borneo. 



(215) C gclnensas, JK«#., in Fed., Rep., V, 371; — var. tomentosa, 

 Rst., 1. c, XII, 525. 



Trunk 2 m. high. Stipes unknown. Fronds 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae 

 alternate, subsessile, erecto-patent, 30 cm. or more long, 8 cm. broad, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the upper part pinnatifid, the apex linearly 

 narrowed, serrate. Pinnulae 4 cm. or more long, 1 '/^ cm. broad, elongate-oval, 

 subacute or the largest ones shortly acuminate, deeply pinnatifid, the 

 apex slightly serrate. Lobes linear, suboblique, subfalcate, crenate-serrate. 

 Texture chartaceo-herbaceous ; surfaces naked ; upper surface oUve-coloured, 

 lower paler, subglaucous; rachises slender, livid, strigoso-villose above, 

 clothed beneath with small, unequally stellato-dilacerate or hair-like, subflaccid 

 or rarely rigid, broad paleae ; costae slightly strig'ose above, clothed beneath 

 with minute, white, bullate paleolae; costulae pinnate with ± 6 veins on 

 each side; 3 — 4 lower veins forked, the others simple. Sori near the 

 costulae, below the forking of the forked veins, the simple veins destitute 

 of sori ; indusium large, hypocrateriform, membranaceous, with the margin 

 cut down into 5 nearly regular, broadly deltoid lobes. — Resembles in 

 habit C. philippinensis Bk. 



War. tomentosa: R,achis ochraceo-tomentose with adpressed hairs; 

 secondary rachises more laxly tomentose, the hairs intermixed with narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, yellowish-white scales; costalae scaly, the lower 

 scales straight, the higher bullate. 



New Guinea. 



(21c) C. Roblnsonii, CopeL, in Philipp. .lourn., VF, 145. 



Trunk 2 — 4 m. high, 4 cm. thick. Stipes 40 cm. long, clothed at 

 the base with linear, brown, entire scales, the upper part dark-coloured, 

 minutely squamulose and hispid. Fronds 1 m. long, 70 cm. broad, abruptly 

 acute, 3-pinnate, especially the partial rachises clothed with crowded 

 scales, the scales partly linear and brown, partly minute. Pinnae on stalks 



