TO 3. ALSOPHILA. 



(28) A. subconiosa, C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. ; A. comosa, Christ 

 (not Wall); A. Christii, v. A. v. R. (not Sod.}. 



(29) A. truneaia, Bracls.} Cyathea truncata, Copel, in Philipp. 

 Journ., lyc, 39. 



(32) A. toiiientosa, Mie.; Cyathea tomentosa, Zoll. c# Jfor,, Copel., 

 in Pliilipp. Journ., IV°, 40. 



(33) A. extensa, Spr.s Polypodium lunulatum, Forst., Schk., Krypt. 

 Gew., I, tab. 23. 



Stipes dark, deciduously farinoso-pulverulent ; main racliis muriculate 

 in the lower part, deciduously pulverulent, subvelutinous above; secondary 

 rachises pulverulent, strigoso-tomentose above ; costae striguloso-puberulous 

 above, squamulose beneath, the scales pale, bullate, acute or subulate; 

 costulae naked above, bullato-squamulose beneath. 



(33a) A. Ciirranii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl; Cyathea Gurranii, 

 Copel, in Philipp. Journ., IV*^, 52. 



Trunk + 3 m. high, + 20 cm. thick. Stipes + 35 cm. long, maroon, 

 tuberculate, bearing thin, soft, tawny scales which are up to 6 % cm. long, 

 entire unless at the tip, long-angustate, + 4 mm. wide at the base 

 which is cordate, or rounded and peltate. Fronds + 100 cm. long, half 

 as wide. Lowest pinnae long-stalked, reduced and deflexed; median ones 

 + 35 cm. long, + 17 cm. wide, short-stalked. Pinnulae sessile, + 9 cm. 

 long, + 1 cm. broad, long-angustate, pinnate; lowest segments deflexed 

 over the rachis and not adnate, the others adnate, crowded, narrowly, 

 oblong, obtuse, entire or nearly so, bullate. Texture coriaceous; surfaces 

 naked; upper surface brownish-green, lower apparently glaucous; main 

 rachis bearing sparse, small, deciduous, lanceolate paleae, rough with small 

 but numerous usually very blunt tubercles, brown, dorsal side hairy; 

 secondary rachises similar but less tuberculate, and dark-maroon in colour ; 

 costulae beneath occasionally with a scale; veins + 10 on a side, minutely 

 hairy beneath; simple or forked near the costulae. Sori subcostular, soon 

 covering the whole under surface. 



Luzon. 



(34) A. SMi'isSa, Bh.s Cyathea lurida, Copel, Philipp. Journ., IVc, 45. 

 Stipe and rachis unarmed but roughish, purplish, densely tomentose. 



