Encephalartos.| | oxxx. cycADAcE@ (Prain). 349 
2. E. Poggei, Aschers. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. xx. (1878), xxxv. 
Stem short or very short, ellipsoid or subcylindric, casually forked, 
1-2 ft. high, 8 in. thick, closely covered with alternating scales and 
persistent imbricating leaf-bases clothed with shaggy grey tomentum. 
Leaves 23-4 ft. long, 8-10 in. wide above the middle, glaucescent, 
petiole and rhachis subcylindric, clothed at first with shaggy to- 
mentum which partially persists near the base; pinnules rigidly 
coriaceous, 20-60 pairs, linear-lanceolate, very slightly falcate, 4-6 
in. long, $—-$ in. wide, abruptly slightly unequally narrowed at the 
base, apex acute, pungent, margin usually entire occasionally with 
2-3 diverging teeth along the lower edge, and with 1-4 diverging 
teeth mainly near the base rarely entire along the upper edge. Male 
cones peduncled, greenish or orange-yellow, narrow cylindric, 6-8 in. 
long, 24 in. wide; peduncles 4 in. long, nearly glabrous; scales 
spreading, deltoid, fertile portion # in. long, not much longer than 
broad, apex rhomboid, 1 in. across, the lateral angles acute, the others 
very obtuse, ridged and faintly faceted, not umbonate. Female 
cone subsessile, green, at length becoming pale salmon-coloured, 
oblong-ellipsoid, 8-9 in. long, 43 in. wide; apex of scales wide- 
rhomboid, 12-2 in. across, 3-3? in. deep, lateral angles explanate, 
upper and lower very obtuse, surface divided into 3-4 facets, centre 
raised but not umbonate. Seeds ovoid, faintly angled, about 1 in. 
long; outer coat brownish-red.—-De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 
184, and Not. Pl. Util. Congo, i. 388, 396 ; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84. 
E. lemarinelianus, De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxix.80-82 ; De Wild. Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 9, tt. 
23, 24, Not. Pl. Util. Congo, i. 390, tt. 25, 26, 28, figs. I, II, Pl. Laurent 
12 (lemarinellianus), Miss. BK. Laurent, 364, figs. 56, 57, 59 (lemari- 
nellianus), and Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 183 ; Gentil, Rev. Hort. Belg. 
1904, 7, and Gard. Chron. 1904, xxxv. 370, figs. 164, 165; André, 
Rev. Hort. 1904, 58, fig. 23; Bois, Rev. Hort. 1907, 177, figs. 60, 
61; Thonner, Bliitenpfl. Afr. t.1; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84: Th. 
& Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 650. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lualaba-Kasai district ; plateau between 
the Luisa and the Casserigi Rivers, Pogge ; Bena-ganza, near the Luabo River, 
Pogge ; right bank of the Lubi River, Lemarinel! left bank of the Lulua River, 
near Luluabourg, Gentil ; Kanda-Kanda, Gentil ; between Kanda-Kanda and 
Lusambo, Gentil ; without precise locality, Pynaert. 
The T'chiondo of the Kanioka, Biondo of the Baluba, Lulondo or Kalaba Kabo 
of the Lulua, this species has no economic value ; it occurs in dry savannahs 
and survives the annual grass-fires (Gentil). The leaves are deciduous, dis- 
appearing during the hct season ; the fresh foliage springs up when the rains 
commence (Laurent). The plant has been introduced to cultivation through 
the efforts of Lemarinel, Laurent, Gentil and Pynaert. Lemarinel’s plant has 
been treated by De Wildeman as distinct from that of Pogge, perhaps owing 
to De Wildeman’s belief that Pogge’s plant is an Angolan species which only 
occurs outside the limits of the Belgian Congo. The locality in which Pogge 
originally found this Cycad is, however, within the Lualaba-Kasai district, 
between the Kasai and the Sankuru, not far south of Mussumba; Pogge met 
with it again, prior to its re-discovery by Lemarincl, in a locality within the 
