348 CXXX. CYCADACER (Prain). [Hncephalartos. 
throughout on either edge; stem rather 
short, fusiform ... ABE : .. 5, EH. ferox. 
Pinnules ovate-lanceolate, distinctly falcate, 
acutely acuminate. 
Pinnules at base wide-cuneate or rounded 
on upper, narrow-cuneate on lower edge, 
margin 1-4-toothed throughout on lower, 
2-4-toothed mainly in basal half on 
upper edge; stem usually short or very _ 
short, cylindric or globose ... 30 ... 6. E. gratus. 
Pinnules at base rounded or less often wide- 
cuneate on upper, straight or at times 
concave on lower edge, margin 6-—10- 
toothed throughout on either edge ; stem 
tall or very tall, cylindric or sometimes 
irregular Soe Bec nee ae ... 7. E. laurentianus. 
1. E. Barteri, Carruth. ex Mig. in Arch. Neérl. iii. 243, as to Barter’s 
plant only. Stem very short, ellipsoid, rarely over 1 ft. high, 9 in. 
thick, hardly rising above the soil, closely covered with alternating 
scales and persistent imbricating leaf-bases clothed with grey cottony 
tomentum. Leaves 34-5} ft. long, 8-10 in. wide above the middle, 
bright green; petiole and rhachis subcylindric, clothed at first 
with deciduous grey tomentum ; pinnules rather thinly coriaceous, 
about 80 pairs, linear-lanceolate, very slightly faleate, 5-6 in. long, 
4-? in. wide, somewhat unequally attenuated to the base, apex 
acutely acuminate, pungent, margin with about 4 ascending small 
teeth along either edge. Male cone peduncled, pale green, narrow 
cylindric, 5-9 in. long, 2 in. wide; peduncles 4-7 in. long, at first 
sparsely tomentose, soon glabrous ; scales spreading, deltoid, fertile 
portion % in. long, not much longer than broad, apex triangular, 
? in. across, the lateral angles acute, the lower very obtuse, umbonate. 
Female cone subsessile, dark olive-green, oblong-ellipsoid, 8-10 in. 
long, 5 in. wide ; apex of scales wide rhomboid, 2} in. across, 1} in. 
deep, lateral angles explanate, upper very obtuse, lower obtuse, 
umbonate. Seeds ovoid-oblong, faintly angled, 1} in. long ; outer 
coat crimson.—Miq. Nieuwe Bijdr. Cycad. 46, and Adansonia, 1x. 61; 
Aschers. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. xx. (1878), xxxv.; Moloney, 
For. W. Afr. 214; De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 180 ; Engl. Pflanzenw. 
Afr. i. 84; Prain in Bot. Mag. t. 8232; Chipp, Herb. PI. Gold 
Coast, 39. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Odumasi; Krobo, Rumsey! Kwahu ; west 
of Abene, Chipp, 624! Volta River; Anum, Schinfeld! Moloney! Drome, 
Schinfeld'! Labo-labo, Anderson! Aburi, Johnson! Dahomey: Borgou, 
about 300 miles from the coast, Poi. : ee 
800 ft., Barter, 1692 ! » Poisson! Northern Nigeria 
The Pardi Attar, “ Ghost Palm,” of the Adangme Krobo (Rumsey), 80 named 
because it has no economic value (Schiinfeld). It is common on dry rocky hill- 
sides or river-banks (Barter, Schinfeld) and on rocky savannah where the soil 
is scanty (Chipp). Chipp’s specimens suggest that, at least in savannah tracts, 
the leaves are deciduous ; the young foliage appears in December and January. 
