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veinlets forked, sparsely hairy beneath ; sori inframedial, exindusiate. 
Beddome calls this “By far the most beautiful of all tree ferns.” 
India, Ceylon, Java. 
36. Cyathea strigosa Christ. 
Stipe 45 cm long; frond 65 cm long, 40 cm broad, coriaceous; axes 
aculeate, orange-red, hairy and bearing pale, bullate scales; pinnae 10 to 
12, 20 cm long, the lowest not reduced, sessile ; pinnules sessile, acute but 
not caudate, cut almost to the costa; segments long-triangular, falcate, 
entire, the margin involute, usually glabrous above ; veinlets densely scaly 
and hairy beneath, forked; sori small, costular, indusium white-scarious. 
Decidedly alpine in aspect. 
Celebes (Wawa Ivaraeng, from 2,000 m alt. to the summit). 
37. Cyathea zoll ingeriana Mett. 
Frond coriaceous, dark-green above, pale beneath ; rac-hises above ferru- 
gineous-hirsute and paleaceous; the secondary rachises and costae beset 
beneath with fugacious, lanceolate, acuminate scales and persistent, 
smaller, ovate, denticulate ones; stipe and rachis dark-purple, nodulose 
beneath, rachis above the base of each pinna bearing a prominent 
“aerophore;” pinnules 6 cm long, 14 mm wide; segments close, connected 
by a narrow wing, elongate-oblong, serrate throughout, obtuse, subfalcate, 
with forked veinlets, and one costular sorus on each side at the base; 
indusium rigid-membranaceous, ferrugineous-fuscous, at first opening 
by a small pore, then irregularly torn. 
Java. 
38. Cyathea rufo-pannosa Christ. 
Trunk 2 m high, 4 cm in diameter, the upper part covered by a matting 
of roots, leaf-scars about 13 mm wide and 15 to 22 mm long; bases of 
stipes and crown of trunk clothed with appressed, narrow, scarious, opaque, 
chestnut scales, 13 to 14 mm long; stipe up to 55 cm long, red-brown, 
bearing fine, sharp, black prickles, and covered with a fine rufous scurf, 
as is the rachis; frond very variable in size, up to 150 cm long and 60 cm 
or more broad, the lowest pinnae reduced and deflexed ; middle pinnae up 
to 37 cm long, 11 cm broad, sessile, the rachis very hairy above, beneath 
densely clothed with fine, pale, squarrose scales like those on the main 
axis, and sparse, entire, linear-lanceolate, chestnut ones 4 mm long; 
pinnules sessile, 55 mm long, 13 mm wide at the base, acute, cut to the 
costae for half their length ; costae clothed above with brown hairs, and 
beneath with copious pale-brown, lanceolate scales 1.5 to 2 mm long; seg- 
ments (or secondary pinnules) hardly 2 mm wide, 5 mm long, obtuse, 
adnate (except usually the lowest), serrulate toward the apex, glabrous 
above with salient, wavy costule, beneath bearing pale, bullate scales, and 
sometimes such as clothe the costa; veinlets about 8 on a side, forked; 
