Encephalartos.| xXx. CYCADACE® (Prain). 351 
4. E. Hildebrandtii, A. Br. & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 
1874, 8. Stem usually well developed, cylindric, casually branched, 
up to 20 ft. high, 1 ft. in diam., occasionally short or very short, 
closely covered with alternating scales and persistent imbricating 
leaf-bases sparingly clothed with grey cottony tomentum. Leaves 
8-9 ft. long, 12 in. wide above the middle, dark green ; petiole and 
rhachis subcylindric, clothed at first with deciduous grey tomentum, 
soon quite glabrous ; pinnules firmly coriaceous, 50-70 pairs, linear- 
lanceolate, very slightly falcate, 9 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, somewhat 
unequally attenuated to the narrow base, apex acute, pungent, 
margin with 1-4, usually 2-3, diverging teeth on either side, the 
uppermost teeth generally some distance from the tip but not in- 
frequently high up and the tip then 3-spinescent—in young plants 
casually 4-5-spinescent. Male cone peduncled, sometimes up to 
7 in one crown, greenish or dull-red, ovate to narrow-cylindric, 8-18 
in. long, 24-4 in. wide; peduncles 3} in. long, tomentose; scales 
spreading, obovate-deltoid, fertile portion ? in. long, rather longer 
than broad, apex rhomboid, 3-3 in. across, the lateral angles acute, 
the upper very obtuse, ridged and faintly faceted, not umbonate. 
Female cone subsessile, green, at length becoming dull yellow, sub- 
cylindric, up to 2 ft. long, 7 in. wide ; apex of scales wide-rhomboid, 
2 in. across, 1 in. deep, lateral angles explanate, upper and lower 
very obtuse, umbonate near the lower angle. Seeds ellipsoid or ovoid, 
faintly angled, 14 in. long; outer coat vermilion._—A. Br. in Sitz- 
ungsb. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, Berl. 1876, 117, and in Monatsber. 
Akad. Berl. 1876, 859; Regel in Gartenfl. xxv. 1876, 203, 204, and 
xxvi. 1877, 215 with fig.; Aschers. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. xx. 
(1878), xxxv.; Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1878, ix. 430 ; Hildebrandt in 
Zeitschr. Gesellsch. fiir Erdkunde, xiv. (1879), 264; Carriére in 
Rev. Hort. 1880, 456, fig. 93 (Hildebrandt) ; Eichler in Monatsschr. 
Berl. Ver. Beférd. Gartenb. 1880, 50, t. 1, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. ii. i. 22, fig. 14 A, B; Hennings in Gartenfl. 1890, 234, 
fig. 55,1 and 4, 4a-6; Stuhlmann, Mit Emin Pascha, 824; Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. A. 35, 78, C. 92; Warburg in Engl. l.c. B. 173; Mast. 
in Gard. Chron. 1900, xxvii. 120, with suppl. fig.; Werth, Veg. 
Insel Sansibar, 49; De Wilde, Rev. Hort. Belg. 1903, 196, fig. 29 ; 
De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 181; Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1914, 
386, and in Bot. Mag. tt. 8592, 8593. H. villosus, var. Hildebrandtia, 
Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. 11. 84. LE. villosus, forma Hildebrandtir, Hen- 
nings, l.c. 238. Zamia Hildebrandi, Hort. ex Carriere, l.c. figs. 94, 95. 
“Nile Land. British East Africa: Seyidieh; hills near Mombasa, Kirk! 
Hildebrandt! hills near Shangamui, Hildebrandt; Rabai Hills, at Mlima, 
Taylor! old lake-bed below Kaya-Bomu, Taylor! Samburu, Powell! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, in the coast 
belt, Kirk! Simbili, at the base of the Usambara Hills, Holst, 2371! upper 
Bombo Valley, 2700 ft., in savannah forest,’ Hngler. Useguha; Bagamoyo, 
in the coast belt, Kirk! Rosako, 17 miles west of Bagamoyo, in savannah- 
forest, Stuhlmann. Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, in the coast belt, Kirk ! Island of 
