THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. VI DECEMBER, 1911 No. 6 
CYATHEAE SPECIES NOVAE ORIENTALES. 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland. 
(From, the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, P. I.) 
Cyathea subsessilis Copel. sp. nov. 
Fronde 110 cm alta, 40 cm lata, subsessile, utrinque angustata; stipite 
5 cm vel ultra alto, sparse tuberculato, supra paleis fuscis 2 cm longis 
omato ; rhachi sursum glabrescente inerme, deorsum simul stipitis ; pinnis 
infimis sensim valde reductis, medialibus 22 cm longis, subsessilibus, 
acutis, rhachibus quadratis, supra hirsutis, infra glabris, inermibus ; pin- 
nulis 3-4 cm longis, 10-12 mm latis, sessilibus, obtusis, subeoriaceis, fere 
ad costam pinnatifidis, costa supra setosa, aliter glabris ; segmentis 5 mm 
longis, 3 mm latis, rotundatis, subintegris; venis utroque latere 3-5, 
plerumque furcatus et in ala soriferis, sbris subcostularibus, indusio nitido, 
laete brunneo, primo mammiforme. 
Samoa, Savaii, Maugaloa, Vaupel, Plantae Samoenses J/2J/, March, 1909. 
A decidedly peculiar and distinct species. 
Cyathea deorsilobata Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhachi fere 2 cm crassa glabra, brunnea, aculeolata; pinna 65 cm longa, 
25 cm lata, brevistipitata, rhachi minutius tuberculata, glabrescente ; pin- 
nulis sessilibus, 12.5 cm longis, 3 cm latis, caudatis, rhachi deorsum 
infra minute furfuracea, supra pilis sparsis ochroleucis ornata, sursum 
glabra ; pinnulis 11 infimis subsessilibus, sequentibus adnatis falcatis, ob- 
tusis, herbaceis, supra costaque glabris atroviridibus, infra minutissime 
hirsutis, parte inferiore pinnulae quaeque fertile et inciso-serrata, versus 
apices integris ; venis utroque latere ca. 15, inferioribus bis furcatis ; soris 
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