Tas. 5242. 
ZAMIA SKINNERI. 
Mr. Skinner's Zamia. 
Nat. Ord. CrcapacE#.—DtIcctia. 
Gen. Char. FLORES MASCULI: Anthere aperte, in strobilos terminales pedun- 
culates collectze, undique rachi communi insertee, singule ovoidee, basi in stipi- 
tem attenuate, apice incrassato peltiformi subbilobe, lobis subtus polliniferis. 
Fior. Fam.: Carpidia plurima, monophylla, aperta, in strobilos terminales 
pedunculatos collecta, rachi communi undique inserta, singula basi in stipitem 
attenuata, apice in peltam hexagonam dilatata, pelta subtus utrinque ovulo unico 
inverso feeta. Fructus e carpidiis subdiscretis. Semina ovoideo-subglobosa ; 
testa ossea, epidermide tenuiter carnosa cincta. Hmébryo inversus, in axi albu- 
minis carnosi, radicula respectu racheos communis centripeta.—Arbuscula in 
America tropica, imprimis in Indie Occidentalis Insulis obvie ; frondibus pinnatis ; 
pinnis 4asi calloso-constrictis, multinerviis ; nervis simplicibus indivisis. Endl. 
ZAMia Skinneri; caudice erecto tereti cicatricato; frondibus paucis erecto-paten- 
tibus longe stipitatis. pinnatis, stipitibus teretibus (rachibusque) aculeatis 
basi valde incrassatis, pinnis 7-11 oppositis vel alternis remotis obovato- 
ellipticis coriaceis nitidis parallelo-multinerviis subito acuminatis dimidio 
superiore spinuloso-serratis basi attenuatis sessilibus, strobilis (masculis) 
3-4-ageregatis pedunculatis cylindricis pubescentibus ferrugineis basi multi- ~ 
bracteatis, squamis antheriferis subpeltatis, antheris subglobosis basi pau-. 
lulum attenuatis semibivalvibus. 
Zamia Skinneri. Warszew. in Otto et Dietrich Garten Fl. v. 19. p. 146, eum ic. 
Bot. Zeit. 1854, p. 27.. Seemann, Bot. of Herald, p. 202. 
We received plants of this very distinct species of Zamia from 
the eminent cultivator Mr. Borsing, of Berlin. _ It appears to 
have been first detected at Veraguas, Isthmus of Panama, by M. 
Warszewicz. Dr. Seemann subsequently found it in the Isthmus 
of Darien, at Cape Corrientes, and a specimen from him without 
fructification is in the Hookerian herbarium. It appears to be 
described and figured by Warszewicz in the journal of Otto and 
Dietrich above quoted, but whether or not any fructification 1s 
noticed I am ignorant, as I have not the opportunity of seeing the 
work. I should think not, for in the brief specific character copied 
into the Bot. Zeitung, no mention is made of it. We have been 
more fortunate ; for our plants in the stove of the Royal Gardens 
APRIL, Ist, -1861. 
