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• Cyathea nîgrospînulosa, v. A. V.R. 



Frondes lanceolatae,- 200 cm. loiigae, utrinque angustatae, acuminàtae, 

 3-piniiatifidae ; rachis primaria paliide fusca, opaca, supra decidue sqiiamulosa, 

 ceterum decidue furfuracea; squamuiae fuscae, crassae, subintegerrimae, 

 inferiores lineati-subulatae, superiores lineari-fiiiformes, crispatulae; furfur 

 paliide fuscus, gibbis minutissimis, acute conicis, nigris, numerosis sparse 

 intermixtus. Pinnae breviter petiolulatae, usque ad 50 cm. longae, acuminatae, 

 inferiores sensim reductae; rachides secundariae supra castaneo-hirsutae, 

 ceterum decidue filiformi-squamulosae, furfuraceae, squamuiis crassis, fuscis, 

 i integerrimis; furfur punctis elevatis, brunneis vel nigris, parce intermixtus. 

 Pinnulae remotae, coriaceae, glabrae, sessiles, subhorizontales, subulato- 

 lanceolatae, maximae + 11 cm. longae, basi + 2'/2 cm. latae, profunde 

 pinnatifidae, apice acuminatae, serrato-crenatae ; costa supra hirsuta, subtus 

 minute squamulosa; squamuiae paliide fuscae, partim deciduae, lacerato- 

 fimbriatae vel -ciliatae, inferiores furfuriformes, superiores bullatae. Lobi 

 conferti vel approximati, subhorizontates, oblongi, usque ad l'/4 cm. longi 

 et '/a cm. lati, obtusi, late crenulati vel apicem versus serrulato-crenulati ; 

 costula subtus parce bullato-squamulosa ; venae obliquae, usque ad + 8 

 utrinque, saepe furcatae, infimae posticae a costa ortae. Sori utrinque ad 

 venas 2 — 5 inferiores mediales; indusium scariosum, irregulariter rumpens ; 

 basi persistenti, cupuliformi vel scuteiliformi, saepe inciso-lobata; capsulae 

 paraphysibus castaneis, articulatis intermixtae. 



This seems at first sight to be the Amboinese representative of C. in*egra 

 J. Sin., vi^anting in our Herbarium. It does, however, not agree vuith spec- 

 imens of that species received from the Philippines, which differ in having 

 the stipe provided (and the furfur of the rachises intermixed) with deciduous, 

 rather thin, pale (nearly white), brown-spinulose-ciliolate squamules not 

 mentioned in Copeland's description (Philipp. Journ., IV^, 35). 



Amboina {Wai Joeä, L. Rutten's Explor. Commiss., Coll. Kornassi No. 

 1162). 



Cyclopeltis Presliana (J. Sm.), Berk., Introd., 517; v.A.v.R-, Mai. 

 Ferns, 164; Lastrea Presliana, J. Sm., in Journ. of Bot., Ill, 412. 



According to the present conception this species seems to be very 

 variable. The specimens, however, occurring in the Buitenzorg Herbarium 

 and labelled C. Presliana Berk., show so many striking differences, which 

 are still more conspicuous in living plants, that a dissolution into more 

 species should be sufficiently justified. A separation, however, must be put 

 off till more material of all „forms" and a complete, correct description 

 of the type species are available. — At any rate it is to be considered as ;20/ 

 identical with C. semicordata /. Sm. 



