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frond or pinna, duplicates conditions already familiar in many other genera, 
AthyHum, Dryopteris, Polypodium, etc. 
Cyathea Brunonis Wall, has of late been treated as identical with C. 
moluccana R. Br.; this may be proper, but with five or six Bornean species 
in the group, distinguished now by the apex of the frond, now by the base 
of the stipe, I would want to compare complete specimens, rather than very 
imperfect descriptions, before I believe it. I do not know Cyathea moluc- 
cana at all, but have in hand four sheets of Cuming 378, cited by Hooker 
with the description of C. Brunonis. 
CYATHEA PSEUDOBRUNONIS sp. nov. 
Fragmentum solum a C. J. Brooks ad Bidi in Sarawak anno 
1907 lectum et sub nomine C. Brunonis sine numero distributum 
adest ; qua specie rhachi validiore, pinnis longioribus, marginibus 
plus parallelis ubique crenato-sinuatis, textura crassiore, venis 
simplicibus multis, et praecipue indusiis nullis vel mox fugacibus 
distinguendum est. Rhachi castanea glabrescente ; pinnis bre- 
vistipitatis, basi superiore truncatis inferiore truncato-cuneatis, 
ca. 30 cm longis, 3 cm latis; soris irregulariter 3-seriatis, ad 
venas simplices plerumque carentibus. 
The main veins are notably stout, with usually four, less frequently 
three or five branches; and between them are usually two simple veins, 
leaving the costa near the main veins or at any points between them. 
There are no entire sori on my specimen, but many from which few 
sporangia have been shed; and no trace of an indusium can be detected. 
On Cuming's specimens of Cyathea Brunonis, collected about eighty years 
ago, the indusium can be seen a meter away with the naked eye, though 
the sporangia of many sori are entirely gone. 
CYATHEA FUSCOPALEATA sp. nov. 
Verosimiliter arborescens, sed caudice ignoto; stipite 75 cm 
alto, parte inferiore 20 cm longa paleis linearibus 1 ad 2.5 cm 
longis fuscis minute ciliatis dense vestita, sursum rhachique fus- 
co-stramineis, glabris; fronde 75 ad 100 cm alta, 35 ad 45 cm 
lata, pinnata, pinna apicale aliis simile, minore; stipitulis pin- 
narum 3 ad 10 mm longis, basibus nigro-fuscis ad rhachin arti- 
culatis; pinnis majoribus inferioribus 16 ad 22 cm longis, 25 ad 
35 mm latis, anguste lanceolatis, basi rotundatis vel interdum 
rotundato-cuneatis, apice acuminatis, rectis vel falcatis, apices 
versus serratis, alibi integris, subcoriaceis, glabris; venis 1 ad 
3 furcatis, inter eas 0-2 simplicibus, proximis, liberis; soris 1- 
ad 3-seriatis, costae approximatis, exindusiatis. 
Sarawak, Siol, native collector 2503, February-June, 1914. 
Other collections probably representing this species, but without the 
base of the stipe, are 2657 from Mount Merinjak, and 1568, without stated 
locality; No. 68, the frond of a young plant, cannot now be determined to 
the species. 
