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COPELAND. 
in alis superioribus insertis, medialibus, laete brunneis, indusio tenue, 
persistente. 
Samoa, Savaii, Maugaloa, alt. 800 m, Vaupel, Plantae Samoenses 1ft 1, March, 
1906. 
Near 0. affinis ( Forst. ) Swtz., but conspicuously different in texture and in 
having the secondary pinnules broad and entire near the obtuse tip. G. 
suluensis Baker and G. Cumingii Baker, differ in having their pinnules entire 
throughout. 
Cyathea leichardtiana (F. v. Muell.) Copel. comb. nov. 
Alsophila leichardtiana F. v. Muell. Fragm. 5 (1865) 53. 
We have this fern, from Killarney, from the Queensland Herbarium, under 
the name Alsophila australis. The two are readily distinguished by the character 
of the raehis. 
Cyathea propinqua Mett. has been a veritable drag-net. The two following 
species received here under this name agree with it in the origin of the lowest 
inferior vein, naked rachises, and texture, but are otherwise very distinct, and 
the second is hardly to be regarded as a near relative. 
Cyathea Vaupelii Copel, sp. nov. 
Species gregis C. propinquae Mett. et sub nomine illo distributa, sed 
facile ob pinnam sessilem, pinnulam obtusam, costam infra minute 
squamuliferam et lacinias serrulatas distinguenda. Rhachibus infra gla- 
bris, stramineis vel brunneis, inermibus; pinna ca. 40 cm longa, acuta; 
pinnulis sessilibus 6 cm longis, 17 mm latis, vix ad costam pinnatifidis; 
segmentis 5 mm latis, obtusis, subfalcatis, sursum serrulatis, glabris, her- 
baceis ; venis utroque latere ca. 6 quarum plerumque 4 furcatis f ertilibus ; 
soris medialibus, indusio membranaceo, persistente. 
Samoa, Savaii, Vaipouli, Vaupel , Plqntae Samoenses 181/. 
Cyathea Betchei Copel, sp. nov. 
Rhachibus infra glabris, stramineis, inermibus; pinna 60 cm longa, 
22 cm lata, stipitata; pinnulis infimis reductis et deflexis, sequentibus 
stipitatis, horizontalibus, acuminatis, usque ad 25 mm latis, deorsum ad 
costam infra nigrescentem minutissime squamuliferis, supra pallide hir- 
sutis ; pinnulis 11 infimis vix adnatis rhachiscopice hastatis ; segmentis 
medialibus pinnulae 1 3 mm latis, serratis sursum integrioribus, acutis, 
subfalcatis, herbaceis, supra atroviridibus glabrescentibus, infra pallidis 
secus marginem densius alibi sparse squamulis minutis albidis vestitis; 
venis utroque latere 10-12, plerisque, furcatis; soris medialibus, indusio 
globoso, membranaceo, non persistente. 
Samoa, Upolu, leg. E. Betche, 1881. Comm. National Herbarium of New 
South Wales. 
Cyathea truncata (Brack.) Copel. comb. nov. 
Alsophila truncata Brack. U. S. Expl. Exp. 16 (1854) 289. 
Our specimen (Vaupel, Plantae Samoenses lf30), is a pinna nearly 60 cm long, 
16 cm wide. The secondary pinnules are auriculate on the upper side. 
