350 OXXX. CYCADACES (Prain).  [Encephalartos. 
same district but 150 miles further north (Lemarinel) ; so far, it has not been 
found in Angola (Pogge). Ascherson describes the apex of the scales of the 
female cone as distinctly umbonate ; they are, as De Wildeman remarks, raised 
in the centre, but there is no umbo such as that which characterises the scales 
of the female cone in #. Bartert and in LE. Hildebrandti. 
3. E. septentrionalis, Schweinf. in Bot. Zeit. xxix. (1871), 334. 
Stem usually very short, globose, 1 ft. in diam., hardly rising above the 
soil, but sometimes developing a stout cylindric trunk 2 ft. high, 
closely covered with alternating scales and persistent imbricating leaf- 
bases clothed with dense grey tomentum. Leaves 5 ft. long, 7-9 in. 
wide above the middle, dark green ; petiole and rhachis subcylindric, 
clothed with a more or less persistent grey tomentum ; pinnules 
firmly coriaceous, about 50 pairs, at first densely tomentose, ulti- 
mately sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, 
rather distinctly faleate, 4-5 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, abruptly slightly 
unequally rounded or wide-cuneate at the base, apex abruptly acute, 
pungent, margin with 3-8 diverging teeth, mainly in the basal half, 
on either side. Male cone not described ; sometimes, in examples 
with elongated stems, the cones 8-10 ona single plant (Schweinfurth). 
Female cone or scales not seen (Schweinfurth). Seeds ovoid, not 
angled, about 1 in. long; outer, coat not seen (Scheinfurth). — 
Schweinf. ex A. Br. in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1874, 18; Regel in 
Gartenfl. xxv. 1876, 203, 205; Aschers. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 
xx. (1878), xxxv.; Eichler in Engl. & Prantl], Pflanzenfam. ii. 1. 22 ; 
Warburg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 173; De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. 
iv. 176, 184; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84; A. Cheval. Etudes FI. 
Cent. Afr. i. 379. EH. sp., Schweinf. Heart of Africa, i. 448; Stuhl- 
mann, Mit Emin Pascha, 397, possibly. Cycadea, Schweinf. Heart of 
Africa, ii. 374. 
North Central. Oubangui-Shari Territory: Mandjia; near the confluence 
of the Nana and the Gribingui Rivers, 1300 ft., Chevalier, 6303. Dar Banda: 
roe Ndelle, 1900 ft., Chevalier, 7906; Boro Valley, 1700-2000 ft., Chevalier 
Nile Land. Golo: Kredy Nduggo country; between the Uyeeli and the 
Uyissoba, east of the Beery (specimens with distinct cylindric stems), Schwein- 
furth ; Dem Zubeir, 2200 ft., Boardman! Niam-niam: Mambeli; Gumango 
Hill near the Rye, Schweinfurth, 2952! on the Ibba (Tonj) River near Nganye, 
Schweinfurth, 3992! east of the upper Huth, Schweinfurth. Bongo: on the 
Lehssy River, at Abu Ssamat, Schweinfurth; near Ngoli’s village (seeds), 
Schweinfurth! Uganda: Nile Province; on a rocky hill near Agu, 60 miles 
east of Dufila (photograph), Seth-Smith ! : 
_The Mwue Piah of the Niam-niam, the Kagga Kondo of the Bongo and the 
Kotto of the Kredy Nduggo. Among the Niam-niam it is put to no economic 
use ; the Kredy Nduggo prepare a kind of beer from the mealy central part of 
the stem (Schweinfurth). According to Schweinfurth it is confined to savannah 
forest and survives the annual grass-fires, sending up its fresh foliage in Feb- 
ruary when these are over; it does not extend northwards into the districts of 
Jur or Mittu. It is possible that the Encephalartos recorded by Stuhlmann as 
met with by Emin Pasha and himself in savannah forest on the Upper Duki, 
a tributary of the Ituri immediately to the west of Lake Albert Nyanza, may be 
this species. The outer coat of the seed has not been seen, the firm inner coat 
is pale pink. 
