NEW SPECIES OF CYATHEA. 
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Caudice (teste Fenix) 9 cm erasso, breve; stipite ultra 60 cm alto 
atro-fusco, aculeis acutis 1 mm longis sparsis horrido, supra basin pinnis 
2 pinnatis 6 cm altis praedito, ad basin paleis paucis angnstis brunneis 
15 mm longis adpressis vestito, aliter rhachibusque subaspernlis glabris; 
pinnis maximis 35-40 cm longis, 20 cm latis, ovatis in apicem pinna- 
tifidnm abrupte contractis; pinnulis ca. 10 cm longis, fere 2 cm latis, 
sessilibus, acuminatis, apud rhachin ad costam sursum ad alarn incisis. 
costis infra plerumque glabris, supra pubescentibus ; segmentis 4 mm 
latis, obtusis, obscure serrulatis, costulis infra paleis parvis paucis prae- 
ditis, lamina glabra fere membranacea, supra atroviride, infra olivacea; 
venulis furcatis; soris ca, 0.7 mm latis, globosis, fulvo-stramineis, stric- 
tissime costularibus ; indusio nullo. 
Santo Domingo de Basco, Ins. Batanes, Bur. Sci. 3 7.97 Fenix. 
Cyathea Foxworthyi Copel. spec. nova. 
Arbor caudice 2 m alto; stipite brevissimo, 1 cm erasso, infra squa- 
mulis minutis furfuraceis vestito et spinis validis brevibus acutis densis 
horrido, supra paleis setaceis atrocastaneis ca. 1 cm longis obtecto ; fronde 
150 cm alta, rhachi fere ad basin stipitis pinnis reductis praedita, sur- 
sum glabrescente, sparse asperula, fulvo-fusca; pinnis majoribus 45 cm 
longis, sessilibus, ad apicem pinnatifidum abrupte contractis, rhachibus 
supra purpureo-velutinis, infra minute tuberculatis, paleis minutis spar- 
sis deciduis praeditis; pinnulis ca. 10 cm longis, 16 mm latis, sessilibus, 
sursum sensim in caudanr serratam angustatis, vix ad costas pinnatifidis ; 
costis supra pilosis, infra squamulis sparsis praeditis, atropurpureis ; 
segmentis lineari-oblongis 3 mm latis, obtusis, acute serrulatis; lamina 
subcoriacea, glabra, viride, infra pallida; venulis utroque latere ca, 11, 
furcatis; soris costalibus, globosis, 0.8 mm latis; indusio fulvo, mox ore 
irregulare aperto dein sensim fatiscente. 
Luzon, Mount Banajao, alt. 1,200 m, Bur. Sci. 2Jf62 Foxworthy. 
In spite of the fairly persistent and at first conspicuous indusium I believe 
this species is not very remotely related to G. callosa Christ and to C. extensa 
Swtz., the latter being the type species of Alsophila. 
Cyathea chinensis Copel. spec. nova. 
C. Conf ucii Christ Ac. Geog. Bot. 15 (1906) 102 partim. 
Trunco usque ad 6 m alto ; fronde grande ; rhachi subglabra, baud api- 
culata; pinna maxima in herbario liongkongense 42 cm longa, 13 cm lata, 
sessile, acuminata, rhachi straminea, infra sparse pilosa supra densius 
pilis purpureo-fuscis adpressis obsita; pinnulis sessilibus, 7 cm longis, 
14 mm latis, serrato-eaudatis, profunde pinnatifidis, sinubus acutis; costis 
supra fusco-pilosis, infra pilis liyalinis et paleis minutis irregularibus 
sparsissimis vestitis; venulis utroque latere 7-9 plerisque furcatis, incon- 
spicuis; segmentis 3 mm latis, subfalcatis, obtusis, serrulatis, herbaceis, 
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