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and scaly with thin, cihate, subulate paleae, beneath bearing sparse, 

 crisped, lanceolate scales, brown with light margins. Pinnae + 30 cm. 

 long, short-stalked. Pinnulae + 5 cm. long, + 1 cm. wide, cut almost 

 or quite to the costa into numerous hnear-oblong, subentire segments. 

 Texture coriaceous; costae hairy above, beset beneath with dentate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, imbricate, duU-ferrugineous scales, which become shorter 

 and more bullate toward the apices and on the costulae; veins 5 — 6 on 

 a side, simple or the lowest forked. Sori subcostular, cinnamon-red. 

 Java^ Celebes. 



(84a) A. uielanoraebis, Copd., Gyathea melanorachis, Gopel., in 

 Philipp. Journ., IV^, 38. 



[3b) A. luiQdanaenisis, Chfist; Gyatliea niinclanaensis, Gopel, in 

 Philipp. Journ., IV^, 34. 



(37j ? A. Matthe^vii, Christ, in Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., 

 XXXIX, 213. 



Unarmed. Trunk to 65 cm. high. Stipes + . 20 cm. long, sulcate, 

 clothed with grey, lanceolate, acuminate, scariose, rigid, entire, keeled, 

 imbricate scales which are subadpressed or spreading at the apex. Fronds 

 broadly ovate, + 45 cm. long, 30 cm. broad, acuminate, moderately 

 narrowed at the base. Pinnae spreading, approximate, broadly ovate; 

 central pinnae + 18 cm. long, 9 cm. broad, acuminate, nearly sessile; 

 lower pinnae deflexed. Pinnulae approximate, sessile, broadly lanceolate, + 

 4 cm. long, 13 mm. broad, acute, somewhat narrowed at the base, cut 

 down to the costa. Secondary pinnulae separated by a narrowly ovate sinus, 

 adnate, ligulate, obtuse, entire or obscurely crenulate, the lower ones 

 smaller, distant, free, ovate at the base. Texture thin, herbaceous; colour 

 black-green, opaque; rachises fulvous, clothed with fine, subferrugineous 

 hairs and fuscous, subulate, scariose scales ; costae strigose above, squamose 

 beneath ' with roundish, umbilicate, bullate scales ; veins oblique, distant, 

 inconspicuous, + 6 on each side, the lowest forked. Sori unknown. 



Luzon. 



(38j A. hiforinis. Mst., in Fedd., Rep., IX, 423; Gyathea biformis, 

 Gopel., in Philipp. Journ., VT^, 364; G. botryocarpa, Gopel., MS. 



Fronds 3-pinnate, the rachises purple-black, nearly glossy, clothed 



