72 3. ALSOPHILA. 



above with brownish tomentum and scattered, subulate or lanceolate 

 scales. Pinnulae dimorphous. Barren pinnulae simple, lanceolate, petiolate, 

 ^ 8 cm. long, ± I'/i cm. broad, acute, broadly but not deeply serrate- 

 dentate, rotundate-cuneate at the base. Texture coriaceous; costae and 

 veins beneath provided with minute, scattered, deciduous, bullate, 

 lanceolate or subulate scales; main veins pinnate with + 2 — 3 erected 

 veins on a side. Fertile pinnulae pinnate, the rachis marginate (narrowly 

 winged) on both sides; leaflets spreading or horizontal, linear-oblong, to 

 + 5 mm. long, 1 — 1 ' ^ mm. broad, 8 — 4 mm. apart, the apex blunt or 

 truncate, the sides parallel or nearly so, the costal parenchyma canaliculate 

 above, the edges subrevolute, irregularly repand, the base abruptly broadly 

 cuneate or truncate, nearly sessile. Sori + 5 — 6 on a side, occupying 

 the whole under surface of the leaflets. 

 Neio Guinea. 



(39) A. inciso-serrala, c. Chr., Izid. Fil., Suppl. ; C^/aifAea ma'so- 

 serrata^ Copel, in Philipp. Journ., VF, 361. 



Main rachis bright-brown, minutely and sparingly punctulate, beneath 

 naked or giabrescent, above minutely velutinous. Pinnae + 50 cm. long, 

 15 cm. broad, subsessile, acuminate, the rachis smooth, provided beneath 

 with few narrow, minute, scattered scales. Pinnulae short-stalked, + 8 

 cm. long, to 2'/j cm. broad, acuminate, cut down nearly to the costa 

 which is hairy above, provided beneath with fusco-ferrugineous, lanceolate 

 or bullate scales; lower pinnulae somewhat reduced. Lobes + 4 mm. broad, 

 obtuse, inciso-serrate ; costulae naked above, clothed beneath with caducous, 

 bullate squamules; lowest basiscopic lobes reduced, entire. Texture 

 herbaceous; surfaces naked; veins twice forked. Sori medial, provided 

 with numerous hairs somewhat longer than the sporangia. 



Boj'neo. 



(40) A. tricBaophora, v. A. ». «.; Cyathea trichophora, Covel, in 

 Philipp. Journ., VI^, 363; (? Hemitelia). 



Stipes + 50 cm. long, asperulous, deciduously hairy, clothed at or 

 near the base with stramineous, needle-Uke and lanceolate scales. Fronds 

 + 120 cm. long, 50 — 60 cm. broad, narrowed at both ends. Pinnae 

 pinnate, 30 — 35 cm. long, + 10 cm. broad, subsessile, the rachises white- 

 hairy; lowest pinnae deflexed, hardly pinnate, + 10 cm. long. Pinnulae 

 sessile, + 5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, obtuse, the margin cut more than 



