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COPELAND. 
1.5 m broad, tripinnate ; middle pinnae the largest, 80 cm long; pinnules 
12 can long, 20 to 25 mm broad, abruptly acuminate; secondary pinnules 
12 mm long, 3 mm broad, sessile, cordate or the upper ones adnate, 
subacute, serrulate, herbaceous, glabrous except for straw-colored scales 
on the costae and sometimes on the veins; veinlets forked at the base; 
sori eostular, 1:5 mm wide; indusium almost white, very thin, breaking 
early into persistent, silky fragments. 
Luzon, Mindoro, Negros. 
33. Cyathea tomentosa (Bl.) Zoll. & Moritz. 
Trunk 8 m high, 20 cm in diameter, densely clothed at the top with 
light-brown scales 2 to 5 cm long, as are also the bases of the stipes ; fronds 
up to 2.5 m long, 1.4 m broad, tripinnate; pi nine subsessile, up to 25 cm 
broad; rachis of pinna densely hairy above, beneath spinulose, densely 
clothed with minute lacerate squamules, and bearing copious linear, 
sparsely ciliate, rufous-fulvous scales almost 2 cm long; pinnules sessile, 
broadest (15 mm) at the base, gradually acuminate, costae hairy above, 
densely clothed beneath with very hairy tawny scales; secondary pinnules 
adnate, only the lowest ones free, subentire, obtuse, falcate, coriaceous, 
convex, glabrous above, costule scaly and hairy beneath and the veinlets 
sparsely hairy; veinlets 8 to 12 on a side, mostly forked; sori eostular, 
covered by scales, exindusiate. 
Java. 
34. Cyathea lepifera (J. Sm.) Copel. ( AlsopMla lejnfera J. Sm. in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. 3 (1841) 419). 
This fern has been collected only by Cuming, and has been reduced to 
C. tomentosa, from which it is very distinct. It is much nearer to the 
next species, G. crinita, but has narrower pinnules, cut almost throughout 
to the costa, the costa less scaly, the secondary pinnules somewhat glau- 
cous beneath, and the long scales on the raehises with few pale marginal 
setae. 
Luzon ( Camarines Sur ) . 
35. Cyathea crinita (Hook.) Copel. ( Alsophila crinita Hooker, leones (1844) 
pi. 671). 
A tall tree; stipe and flexuose main rachis stramineous, rough with 
minute points and with many black- tipped small spines; raehises pilose 
above, clothed beneath with lacerate squamulae and rather deciduous, 
tawny, acieular scales 1 mm long, more or less, with dark marginal setae ; 
pinnae 60 cm long, 25 cm broad; pinnules sessile, 25 mm broad at the 
base, acuminate, cut to the costa at the very base, elsewhere to a narrow 
wing ; costa and costules hairy above, densely clothed beneath with 
lacerate scales larger than the small ones on the rachis; segments obtuse, 
falcate, the lowest crenate-lobed, becoming entire upward, coriaceous; 
