Tas. 7542, 
ZAMIA osiiqua. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Crcaprm.—Tribe EucEPHALARTER. 
Genus Zamia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 447.) 
Zamia (Euzamia) obliqua; trunco gracili levi, prophyllis triangularibus 
longe acuminatis fuscis infra comam imbricatis, foliis longe petiolatis, 
petiolo gracili lana fusca detergibili primum operto, rachi nudo v. raris- 
sime hic illic aculeolato, foliolis sub 6-jugis 4—6-pollicaribus ovatis ovato- 
oblongis lanceolatisve acuminatis candiculatisve basi in petiolulum 
crassum angustatis crasse chartaceis ultra medium spinuloso-serrulatis, 
nervis gracillimis creberrime lineolatis, strobilo foomineo 6-poll. longo 
23 poll. diam. breviter crasse pedunculato, pedunculo prophyllis lineari- 
lanceolatis fuscis dense vaginato cylindraceo vertice conico apice pungente, 
peltis 6-seriatis transverse hexagonis fusco-tomentosis vertice planis v. 
leviter depressis. 
Z. obliqua, A. Braun in Monatsh. Akad. Berlin, 1875, p. 376. Regel, Cycad. 
Revis. 1875, p. 42; in Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxiy. (1877) p- 140, t. 289. 
Dyer in Gard. Chron, 1882, vol. i, p. 461, fig. 72. 
Z. obliqua is a very distinct species of a genus, which, 
when founded by Linnzus, in 1763, contained but one 
representative (Z. pumila, of the West Indies), but of 
which nearly forty are now enumerated; though of these 
probably only thirty or so are really well characterized. 
All are tropical or subtropical American. Seven 
are now figured in this magazine, of which two are 
nearly related to Z. obliqua, namely, Z. furfuracea, Ait. 
(t. 1969) of Mexico, and Z. Skinneri, Warz. of the Isthmus 
of Panama (t. 5242). Z. obliqua was discovered by Dr. 
Seemann, in 1847, when he was botanist to H.M.S. Herald, 
a ship commissioned by the Admiralty under Captain 
Kellett, R.N., to search for Sir John Franklin’s Expedi- 
tion along the Western polar shores of the American 
continent. On their way North in the Pacific Ocean, Dr. 
Seemann had an opportunity of collecting in New Grenada, 
where he found Z. obliqua on Cape Corrientes. Unfor- 
tunately he did not distinguish it from Z. Skinneri, and 
in the Botany of the Herald’s Voyage, p. 202, amongst 
the habitats given for the latter plant is Cape Corrientes; 
JuLy Ist, 1897, 
