﻿784 APPENDIX. 1. CYATHEA. 



description does not agree with Baker's original diagnosis taken from a cul- 

 tivated specimen. 

 Luzon. 



• (5) C alternant, Pr. — Insert as a synonym : Polypodium al- 

 ternans, Wall., (oldest name). 



• (12) C. cyclodonta, r. a. ». R. — Insert: Bull. D^p. Agr. I. 

 N., i908, XVIII, 1. 



(ioa) C. rufopaiiiioiia, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 180. 



Stipes thick, + 55 cM. long, caslaneous, provided al the base with 

 numerous short, pungent verrucae and long, lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, 

 rigid, squarrose, very lucid, castaneous scales and clothed like the rachises 

 with a dense, furfuraceous, flbrillose, brick-red tomeutum. Fronds 5-pinna- 

 tifid, broadly ovate, to 150 c.M. long, + 60 c.M. broad, rather narrowed 

 towards the base, the racbis verrucose. Pinnae remote, + 15 on each side 

 below the pinuatifid apex, central longest, + 57 c.M. long, + 1 1 c.M. broad, 

 acuminate, somewhat narrowed al the base, lowest deflexed, ± 22 c.M. long. 

 Pinnulae + 30 on each side, approximate, + 572 c.M. long, ± 1^2 c.M. 

 broad, lanceolate, subacute, cut down to the cosla. Segments pectinate, + 

 20 on each side, ligulate, blunlish, crenulate, + 5 m.M. long, + 2 m.M. 

 broad. Texture herbaceous; surfaces sparingly setulose; costae densely cover- 

 ed beneath with rufous, lanceolate and bullato-umbonate scales; costulae pin- 

 nate in the segments; veins forked. Sori small, few, occupying the lower 

 veins; indusium reddish-brown, breaking down irregularly. 



Mindanao. 



(15a) C ferrugiiiea, Christ, Philipp. Journ., 11, 181. 



Stipes not very thick, and like the rachis somewhat glossy, angular, cas- 

 taneous, floccose-paleaceous. Fronds 5-pinnatitid. Pinnae + 26 c.M. long, + 

 11 '/j c.M. broad, stalked, ovate-acuminate, the rachis floccose-paleaceous with 

 rufous, crisped scales. Pinnae + 15 on each side below the lobed apex, + 

 2 c.M. apart, lanceolate, acute, sessile, ± 6 c.M. long, ±11 m.M. broad, 

 cut down to a narrowly winged costa, the lowest somewhat reduced. Lobes 

 + 14 on each side, close, ovate, falcate, subacute, + 5 m.M. long, + 3 m.M. 

 broad, minutely crenulate. Texture herbaceous; colour pale-green, opaque; 

 surfaces nearly naked; costae puberulous above, clothed beneath wilh grey- 



