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Cyathea (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about eighty species, natives of tropical and sub-tropical regions. To those described on p. 415, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. microphylla (small-leaved). cau. 4ft. high. sti. and rachises rusty-tomentose. fronds 2ft. to 3ft. long, oblong-ovate, acuminate, tripinnate; primary pinnae sessile, broadly oblong, acuminate; secondary ones similar but smaller, crowded; pinnules scarcely two lines long, ovate-oblong, deeply pinnatifid; lobes entire. sori solitary at the base of the veinlet; involucre globose. Andes of Peru and Ecuador, 1883. Greenhouse. C. spinulosa (slightly spiny). sti. and main rachis strongly aculeate, often dark purple. fronds glabrous, ample, somewhat flaccid; pinnules oblong, acuminate; lobes acute, serrulated, having small, bullate scales on the costules beneath. sori copious, close to the costules; involucre globose, very thin, membranous, soon breaking irregularly. India, 1883. Stove. (H. S. F. 12c.)