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COPELAND. 
1 to 2 m long, half as wide, narrowed below, herbaceous; pinnae short- 
stalked, the middle ones up to 17 cm broad; pinnules short-stalked, 
close or imbricate, 13 to 16 mm wide, acuminate, cut to a broad wing, 
costa scaly at base with fuscous, lanceolate ciliate, deciduous scales; seg- 
ments 4 mm broad, obtuse or truncate, subfalcate, entire or erenulate, 
costules beneath bearing a few minute lacerate squamules; veinlets 6 or 
7 on a side, forked or simple ; sori medial, exindusiate. 
Malaya (at least, in Java). 
25. Cyathea margarethae (Schroter) Copel. ( Alsophila margarethae Schr. 
ex Christ in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. II 5 (1905) 136). 
Frond ample, bipinnate; pinnae 40 cm long, 15 cm wide; pinnules 7 
cm long, lanceolate, cut two-thirds to the costa; segments almost im- 
bricate, 4 mm long, 3 mm wide, truncate, entire, the under surface and 
margin bearing long white hairs and a few minute scales, herbaceous; 
rachis tawny-brown, unarmed, bearing short chestnut hairs, and pale 
subulate palese 1 cm long ; veinlets 5 to 8 on a side, the upper ones forked ; 
sori medial, brown, hardly 1 mm in diameter, mixed with hairs, exin- 
dusiate. Conspicuous among Malayan species for its hairyness. 
Borneo. 
26. Cyathea boninsimensis (Christ) Copel. ( Alsophila boninsimensis Christ 
in Monsunia 1 (1900) 90; Hemitelia, Diels). 
Stipe fulvo-stramineous, glabrous, asperulous; rachis minutely rough, 
glabrous; pinnae 1 m long, 10 cm wide; pinnules 5 cm long, 15 mm wide, 
lanceolate, acuminate, cut so as to have exactly the appearance of Dryop- 
teris filix-mas parallelo gramma, costae pubescent above; veinlets 7 or 8 
on a side, all forked, conspicuous; sori minute, 0.25 mm wide, costular, 
surrounded by scales but without evident indusium. 
Bonin Islands. 
27. Cyathea henryi (Baker) Copel. (Alsophila henryi Baker in Kew Bull. 
(1898) 229). 
Trunk 2 to 6 m high; frond ample, tripinnatifid, fairly firm, green 
on both sides but paler beneath, glabrous; rachis purplish, scurfy with 
minute, irregular, stellate scales, unarmed; pinnae 60 to 75 cm long, 22 
to 25 cm broad, their rachises chestnut, shining, hairy above ; larger pin- 
nules 13 cm long, 26 mm broad, cut to a broad wing; segments 10 mm 
long, 4 mm broad, obtuse, subfalcate, serrulate toward the apex with 
rounded teeth, sinuses narrow; veinlets about 9 on a side, some forked, 
but the fertile ones simple; sori nearer the margin than to the costule, 
marked by slight depressions on the upper surface, indusium none. 
Yunnan, alt. 1,200 m. 
28. Cyathea melanorachis Copel. ( Alsophila melanorachis Copel. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. Bot. 2 (1907) 146). 
Trunk 2 to 3 m high, 5 cm thick, its apex and the bases of the stipes 
clothed with rigid, chestnut scales 1 cm long, with pale margins; stipe 
