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COPELAND. 
98. Cyathea fauriei (Clirist) Copel. (Alsophila fauriei Christ in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. II 1 (1901) 1019). 
Rachises bearing short, sharp pustules, main rachis pale-brown, plant 
smooth; pinnae sessile (at least the ripper ones), 40 cm long, 16 cm wide, 
ovate-oblong, acuminate; pinnules sessile, about 18 below the pinnatifid 
apex, acuminate, 9 cm long, 2 cm wide, not cut to the costa; segments 
subfalcate, broadly linear, obtuse or apiculate, almost in contact, 2.5 to 
3 mm wide, evidently serrate, dark-green above, olive beneath, herbaceous ; 
veinlets conspicuous, 12 or more on a side, black, two or three times 
forked; sori costular at bases of segments, large and few, brown, naked, 
receptacle small and naked. 
Liu Kiu (Oshima, common at foot of mountain). 
99. Cyathea confucii (Christ) Copel. (Alsophila confucii Christ in Ac. Geog. 
Bot. 15 (1906) 102). 
Trunk hardly 2 m high; frond 150 cm long, half as wide; rachises 
glabrous, beneath prickly, light-brown; pinnae sessile, 45 cm long, 15 cm 
wide, acuminate, hardly narrowed at the base; pinnules sessile, caudate 
with serrate tip, 8 cm long, 17 mm wide, cut almost to the costa, costa 
bearing dark, appressed hairs above, and very sparse hyaline squamules 
beneath, the latter being also on the costules; segments acute, falcate at 
the tip, serrulate, 3 mm wide, dark-green above, pale beneath, herbaceous, 
the lamina glabrous; veinlets 8 to 12 on a side, mostly forked; sori 
costular, subtended by a minute, whitish, scale-like membrane. 
China (Sze Chuen, Mount Omi, alt. 2,000 m). 
100. Cyathea contaminans (Wall.) Copel. ( Alsophila contaminans Wall. 
Cat. (1829) no. 320; Chnoophora glauca Bl. 1828, not Cyathea glauca Bory). 
Trunk up to 15 m high, 15 cm in diameter; fronds up to 3 m long or 
even longer, 150 cm wide; stipe 50 to 100 cm long, at the base scurfy 
and densely clothed with shiny-white, linear scales 2 to 3 cm long, which 
diminish upward and soon disappear, stipe reddish, shading upward to 
tawny or almost stramineous on the rachises, like which it is spiny and 
glabrous; pinnae up to 85 cm long, stalked, abruptly acuminate; pinnules 
sessile, usually 11 to 13 cm long, gradually long-acuminate, cut at the base 
to the costa (and the secondary pinnules contracted at base), elsewhere to 
a narrow wing, costa glabrous beneath, above bearing whitish hairs, at 
least near the base ; segments linear-oblong, subfalcate, subacute, entire or 
nearly so, herbaceous, glabrous, more or less glaucous beneath; veinlets 
9 to 12 on a side, forked; sori medial or infra-medial, not reaching the 
apices of the segments, indusium none. 
India and Malaya. The commonest and largest tree-fern in this part of the 
world. 
