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rower than the outer. Stipes thick, smooth, semiterete, sulcate in 

 front, clothed with long and brown, arachnoid-woolly hairs at the base. 



The soft and fine, chestnut-brown, arachnoid-woolly hairs from 

 the base of the stipes, and in which the circinnate young fronds 

 nestle, is collected by the foreign residents and the more refined of 

 the native population of the Sandwich Islands, and used to stuff beds, 

 pillow-cases, and chair-cushions. 



Tribe VII, CYATHEJ, Gaud., Hook. 

 83. CYATHEA, Sm. 



(Disphenia, Presl.) 



1. Cyathea dealbata, Sw. 



Cyathea dealbata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 140 & 365 j Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 495 j A. Rich. 

 Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 77, t. 10 ; A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 368 ; 

 Hook. Spec. Fil. 1, p. 27. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



The plant is diffused throughout woods and sheltered ravines. 

 Trunk from 8 to 12 feet in height. 



2. Cyathea medullaris, Sw. 



Cyathea medullar is, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 140 & 366 j Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 494 ; A. 

 Eich. Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 78 ; A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 368 ; 

 Hook. Spec. Fil. 1, p. 26, pro parte. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



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