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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
petiolate, sinuate-crenate ; veins three-branched or pinnate, the 
veinlets occasionally anastomosing amongst themselves, or with the 
next group ; sori medial on the veinlets ; indusium very persistent. 
Bedd. F. B. L f.^^ • Hook. Sp. Fil p. i6. 
Penang and Malacca. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
3. Cyathea Hookeri. {T/mi.) Small, but with a trunk-like 
caudex i\ inch thick; stipes short black, muricated at the base and 
sub-paleaceous ; fronds coriaceo-membranaceous, 2-3 feet long, 4-5 
inches wide, elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnate pinnatifid at the 
apex ; pinnae from a broad base, which is more or less auricled, 
lanceolate acuminate, sessile or sub-sessile, coarsely dentate-pinnatifid, 
more or less entire towards the apex and base, and the lower ones 
gradually diminishing in size and obtuse at their apex ; veins pinnate ; 
sori medial on the veinlets ; indusium soon breaking up and becoming 
cup-Uke. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 260. Thw. E?i. PI. Zy. p. 396. Hook. 
Sp. Fil. p. 16. 
Ceylon, in the Singhe-Rajah Forest. 
jPfon^s decornpoundly pinnate. 
4. Cyathea spinulosa. ( Wa/l.) A tall tree fern ; stipes and 
main rachis beneath, strongly aculeate, dark purple ; fronds glabrous, 
tripinnatifid ; main rachis and rachis of pinnules ferruginous above ; 
rachis of pinnules and main vein of segments scaly below, but the 
latter glabrous above ; segments falcate-oblong acute, serrulate, the 
margin more or less recurved ; veinlets once-forked, or more rarely 
three-branched ; sori copious near the costules or main veins ; in- 
dusium completely covering the sorus when young, soon breaking 
irregularly. Bedd. F S. I. t. 57. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 23. 
The Wynad at 3,000 feet elevation. North and South Canara 
Coorg, Jeypore Hills (Vizag), Nepal, Jaintea Hills, The Wynad 
specimens are in every way identical with those from Northern 
India collected by Wallich, and Mr. Clarke is in error in stating 
that the South Indian plant is a Hemitelea, as on comparing with 
him the specimens he had examined at Kew I found that they were 
" Alsophila latebrosa," and that this Cyathea was not represented 
