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COPELAND. 
to 40 cm long, 16 cm wide, long-stallced, their rachises asperous and 
bearing sparse, minute, lacerate squamules; pinnules crowded, sessile, 
acuminate, 10 cm long, 12 mm wide, pinnate almost throughout, costae 
beneath bearing a few minute, lacerate, whitish scales, glabrous or nearly 
so above; secondary pinnules 6 min long, 2 mm wide, separate, mostly 
adnate, obtuse, subfalcate, crenulate, often with involute margin, sub- 
coriaceous, dull-green, darker above, glabrous above, costule beneath bear- 
ing rather large whitish scales; veinlets about 10 on a side, mostly forked; 
sori infra-medial, on most of the veinlets, covering the lamina, no 
indusium seen. 
Liu Kiu. 
73. Cyathea latebrosa (Wall.) Copel. ( Alsophila latebrosa Wall, in Hooker, 
Sp. Fil. 1 (1844) 37). 
A lofty tree; stipes dark-brown, very spiny, scurfy, and bearing at the 
base a few linear, harsh, brown scales about 3 cm long ; frond very large, 
lowest pinnae somewhat reduced and deflexed; rachis maroon, muricate, 
scurfy with deciduous and very minute squamules ; pinnae up to 60 cm or 
more long, sessile or nearly so, acuminate, rachises from brownish-yellow 
to almost maroon, glabrous or minutely scaly, rough with sparse, line 
prickles; pinnules sessile, up to 10 cm long, very acuminate, cut to a 
narrow wing throughout or the lowest segments free, and adnate or not 
so, costae sparsely hairy above, bearing small, more or less bullate, some- 
times irregular scales beneath; segments subfalcate, obtuse or acute, 
serrulate or subentire, glabrous except for scales beneath on the costules, 
subcoriaceous, bright-green above, somewhat paler beneath ; veinlets about 
11 on a side, forked; sori infra-medial, distinct or finally confluent, 
each subtended by a brown scale. This is a species originally inadequately 
described from a Penang fern; Beddome’s figure (F. S. I., pi. 58) does 
not agree completely with the description ; and my only Penang specimen 
under this name seems to be C. contaminans. 
India to Formosa and Celebes. 
O. latelrosa var. major Christ in Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 2 (19.07) 183, has 
a straw-yellow rachis, and the type collection had the trunk 120 cm high. 
74. Cyathea curran ii Copel. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 3 (1908) 356. 
Trunk 3 m high, 20 cm thick, the leaf-scars 5 by 3 cm; stipe about 
35 cm long, maroon, tuberculate, bearing thin, soft, tawny scales which 
are up to 63 mm long, entire unless at the tip, long-attenuate, 4 mm 
wide at the base, cordate, or rounded and peltate; frond about 1 m long, 
half as wide; rachis bearing sparse, small, deciduous, lanceolate paleae, 
rough with small but numerous, usually very blunt tubercles, brown, 
dorsal surface hairy, secondary rachises similar but less tuberculate, and 
dark-maroon in color; lowest pinnae long-stalked, reduced and deflexed; 
median ones 35 cm long, 17 cm wide, short-stalked; pinnules sessile, 9 cm 
long, 1 cm wide, long-attenuate, pinnate, costa naked on both sides, almost 
