a blunder consequently perpetuated under the description 
of Z. Skinneri in this magazine (Tab. 5242). Z, obliqua 
was subsequently (in 1875) collected in the same locality 
by Gustav Wallis, by whom living specimens were sent to 
Messrs. Veitch. It was first described by Prof. A. Braun, 
from flowerless specimens cultivated in the Berlin 
Botanical Gardens. The fine plant here figured was 
procured by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Bull in 
1880. It flowered for the first time in 1896. 
Descr.—Trunk slender, attaining eight feet in height, 
crowned beneath and amongst the leaves with imbricating 
subulate-lanceolate tomentose entire prophylla an inch to 
an inch and a half long. Leaves two to three feet long; 
rachis and petiole unarmed, or with very few scattered 
spinules, when quite young clothed with a light brown 
wool. Leaflets about six pairs, four to six inches long, 
petiolulate, ovate, ovate-oblong, or -lanceolate, usually 
caudate-acuminate, sbarply subspinulosely toothed from 
the middle to the tip, thickly chartaceous, bright green on 
both surfaces, striate with close-set nerves ; petiolule half 
an inch long or less, base swollen. Female cone shortly 
peduncled, about six inches long, by two and a half in 
diameter, cylindric, terminated by a broad conical crown 
with a small apical mucro, clothed all over with a thin 
pale brown tomentum. Scales in six series of about ten 
each, transversely oblong, about an inch in transverse 
breadth, and one-third of an inch in thickness, hexagonal, 
with a truncate flat or slightly concave top; peduncle 
stout, an inch long, clothed with prophylla like those on 
the trunk, longer than itself.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Scale; 2, ovule; both exlarged., 
