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THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. IX 
FEBRUARY, 1914 
No. 1 
NEW PAPUAN FERNS 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland 
(From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los 
Banos, P. I.) 
The following paper is based on material supplied by the Rev. 
Copland King of Ambasi, Papua. 
CYATHEA FUSCA Baker. 
King 883. 
This is certainly nearly related to King’s Nos. 181, 246 and 277, of which 
the last is the type of C. Kingii Rosenstock. No. 388 is merely bipinnatifid, 
while the others are bipinnate with lobed pinnules. The diagnosis of C. 
fusca (Malesia 3: 31) reads: “frondibus amplis bipinnatifidis ; pinnulis 
sessilibus lanceolatis; segmentis tertiariis oblongis obscure crenulatis.” 
Whether we have here one polymorphous species or several closely re- 
lated species cannot be determined from the material in hand. 
CYATHEA (ALSOPHILA) WOODLARKENSIS sp. nov. 
Trunco haud alto, vero gracile sed cum tectura densa et per- 
manente radicum et basium stipitum 8 cm crasso ; stipite pallide 
brunneo, pube minuta pallida transeunte et pilis validis subnigris 
eis Dryopteridis ferocis similibus basibus dur’is persistentibus 
vestito; fronde bifinnatifida, rhachi ut stipes; pinnis permultis 
sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis, usque ad 40 cm longis, 3-4 cm latis, 
valde attenuatis, fere ad costam pinnatifidis, costa pilosa; seg- 
mentis numerosissimis, subfalcatis, integris, obtusis, 2 cm 
longis, 3 mm latis, costula sparse pilosula, lamina glabra, 
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