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rentes. OwaWa ^essilia, criecia rei inverse peDdentia, viri- 

 dia, glabra aut jlide ab initio ^mentosa^ colprata. OvuHm 

 uaictiia erectnm orlbofropuiD. Drupae integumentiim extcr* 

 itnm canio&nm^ cnte coriacea tenaci colorata tectnm, tomen* 

 todum aut glabrum, strato carno^o giolli _a pntmnine osseo 

 d«ro ilitegro vel quasi e plnribus segmentis conflato separa- 

 turn, qaodqne intus indnit meinbrana spermoderntidis arida 

 TcisorUm fibris iiide a basi (hilo) pracdita, in apice courer- 

 gentibas (ch&l^za). _. Albu7nen magnum, alMcau^^ caruosnm, 

 demum corneam. Hilns chalazao oppositns; haec impressa, 

 foramina plara forens, in cavitatcs tcI saccos steriles dn-; 

 centia,. materie resiiiosa vel texfu celjnlari pleii^s tcI rarins 

 fertiles embryones gcrentes. Emhryones plnres (an scraper) 

 scd zmifs tautnm maiurns axilis aut stibaxilis inversus, al- 



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bumini immersns, ejus fere longitndine, radieula brevissi- 

 ma-, ex albumine demum: plus minus/ protuberante, funicnlo 

 snbspirali coniplicato cuin membraua intima spermodermidis 

 cfthaerente, affixa, Cotyledmies diiae carnosae iuaequalcs, 

 apice vei totae coalitac, basi plus minus discretao, plumu-' 

 lam conicam sqnaraulosam vel frondoaam, ante germinatio- 

 nem couspictiafti, includcntes. GerminatJo liypogaea. — S«c- 

 cus amylacoiis, gummogus per iotam plantara, 1» strobilis 

 plus minus resiuosus. 



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Cycadeae iu Protogafia latins dispersaej nunc in Novi 

 Orhis tropicis vel subiropicis, ia Africae uuWaUs regione 

 snbtropicaj in Aside terris tropicis et iVbra HoUai^^i*^ ex- 

 tratropica crescuut. — Ordo in pyaescnte vegetatione fwe 

 peregvinus, golis Coniferis quoad generationjs organa affi- 

 His, caudicis autem structura ef incremenlo, frondium natnra 

 et evolntione diversissimus, olim ob nnius generis (Cpcadis) 

 yei^nationcm circinatam cum Fiiicibus, ex habitus qua^Jan^ 

 similitndinecum Palmis immerito comparalus. ^ Classcm 



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