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COPELAND. 
Cyathea auriculifera Copel. sp. nov. 
Ehachi castanea, minute furfuracea, sparse et minute echinulata: 
pinna mihi missa 50 cm longa, 12 cm lata, fere sessile, rhachi sub indu- 
mento denso minuto castaneo nigra sparsissime echinulata; pinnulis 
subsessilibus, horizontalibus, 14 mm latis, abrupte acutis acumine in- 
tegro, ubique pinnatis; pinnulis 11 brevistipitatis, 2 mm latis, obtusis, 
inferioribus utroque latere auricula una suborbiculare libera omatis, 
aliter integris, medialibus basi truncatis et inaequilateralibus, supra 
glabris et viridibus, infra sparse paleaeeis et perpallidis; venis utroque 
latere 7 vel 8, inferioribus furcatis, medialibus solummodo fertilibus; 
soris costalibus, confertis, laete brunneis, indusio membranaceo. 
Papua, Goodenough Bay, alt. 1,200 m, growing in scrub, C. King '227. 
A very peculiar species, which, in form only, is somewhat suggestive of C. 
truncata. 
A diagnosis was also prepared for Cyathea botryocarpa, founded on No. 57 King, 
but in the meantime Rosenstock has published this as Alsophila biformis in 
Fedde’s Repertorium 9 (1911) 423, issued August 15. Assuming that “biformis” 
and “dimorpha” are properly different names, I will call this Cyathea biformis 
(Rosenstock) comb. nov. 
Rosenstock also describes Cyathea Kingii, based on King’s No. 277. I have 
three sheets of this fern, and do not see why it should not be called Cyathea 
fusca Baker. Beside these two Cyatheas, Rosenstock publishes six new species 
from King’s collection; I published three of these six weeks earlier, and one 
Pteris gracillima, is not new. When I put Mr. King in communication with 
the Buitenzorg Garden, I did not suspect that it would result in double publication, 
or in my having to publish in haste to avoid it. 
