66 3. ALSOPHILA. 



(24a) A. Fenlcis, C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. ; Cyathea Fenicis, CopeL, 

 in Philipp. Journ., IV*^, 61. 



Trunk said to be but 1 m. high. Stipes ± 60 cm. long, dark-brown, 

 prickly with short, sharp spines, bearing 2 small, simply pinnate pinnae 

 just above the base, and clothed at the base with a few narrow, brown 

 scales 1 ',2 cm. long, otherwise glabrous, as are the slightly roughish rachises. 

 Largest pinnae 35 — 40 cm. long, + 20 cm. broad, abruptly narrowed to 

 a pinnatifid apex. Pinnulae + 10 cm. long, hardly 2 cm. broad, sessile, 

 cut at the base to the costa, elsewhere to a wing; segments + 4 mm. 

 broad,' obtuse, obscurely serrulate. Texture rather membranaceous; 

 upper surface dark-green, lower olive-coloured; costae hairy above, mostly 

 glabrous beneath; costulae bearing a few small scales beneath ; veins forked. 

 Sori costular. 



Batanes Islands. 



(245) A. leucocarpa, C. €/»»•., Ind. Fil., Suppl. ; Cz/a^/jea feitcocarpa, 

 Copel., in Philipp. -Journ., VF, 362. 



Stipes more than 30 cm. long, castaneous, deciduously ferrugineo- 

 tomentose, verruculose, the base spiny and provided with black-brown 

 subulate scales; rachises rufous, nearly smooth, minutely scaly beneath, 

 at length glabrescent. Pinnae subsessile, ± 45 cm. long, 13 cm. broad, 

 acuminate. Pinnulae short-stalked, ± Tl^ cm. long, 1'/.^ cm. broad, 

 acuminate, truncate at the base, cut down nearly to the costa, the costa 

 brown-hairy above, clothed beneath with entire, acuminate, scattered scales. 

 Lobes ± 3 '/j mm. broad, rounded at the apex, obscurely serrulate. Texture 

 membranaceous; surfaces naked; costulae sparingly bullato-squamulose 

 beneath ; veins + 8 on a side, often forked. Sori subcostular, immersed ; 

 capsules at length white, when young intermixed with brown paraphyses. 



Borneo. 



(25) A. oriifflo. Scott. s Cyathea ornata, Copel., in Philipp. Journ, 

 JVC, 59. 



(26) A. criiiita. nis.; Cyathea crinifa, Copel, in Philipp. Journ. IVc, 40. 



(26a) A. Elineri. Copeh, in Leaf!., 11, 419; CyatJiea Elmeri, Copel, 

 in Philipp. Journ., IV*^', 54. 



Trunk 5 — 10 m. high, 10 — 15 cm. thick. Stipes short, densely cover- 





