Cuntivation.—A barrel containing a number of stems of 
Ky. Barteri was received at Kew in 1890 from the Botanic 
Station, Lagos. Some of these stems were distributed to 
various botanic gardens, others were planted at Kew. The 
plants, however, did not long survive; nor have stems 
subsequently received lived for more than about three years. 
While, however, this has been the case as regards this 
cycad, FE. villosus, the species to which 2. Barteri appears 
most closely allied, is perfectly happy under cultivation it 
cones regularly in the Palm House at Kew and is one of the 
most handsome of cycads. In both species the stem is conical | 
and it may be that in a wild state both are deciduous. At 
Kew E. Barteri rarely has more than three leaves, and 
although carefully grown in a moist tropical house, only one 
of the stems has produced a cone. ‘The largest stems 
received at Kew have not exceeded a foot in height. 
Descriprion.—Stem short, rarely exceeding 1 ft. in 
height and 9 in. across, closely covered with persistent 
imbricated leaf-bases clothed with grey cottony tomentum. 
Leaves erect or suberect, 34-54 ft. long, 9-10 in. wide 
towards the apex, bright green; petiole and rachis sub- 
cylindric, clothed at first with a deciduous grey tomentum ; 
leaflets usually about 80 pairs, opposite or some near the 
apex only subopposite, rather close-set, linear-lanceolate, 
+? in. wide, somewhat narrowed at the base, apex pungent, 
margin with few ascending small teeth; lower leaflets 
diminishing downwards and passing ultimately into weak 
spines. Male cone peduncled, pale, narrow-cylindric, 5—9 in. 
long, 2 in. wide; scales spreading, deltoid, very shortly 
stipitate, subpeltate, triangular, 2 in. wide, inferior margin 
entire. Female cone subsessile, dark olive, oblong-eilipsoid, 
8 in. long, 5 in. wide; scales long-stalked, apex obliquely 
- deflexed, peltate, wide-rhomboid with the lateral angles 
explanate, 21 in. across, inferior margin entire. Seeds 
ovoid-oblong, faintly angled, at length protruded between 
the scales of the mature cone, 1} in. long; testa crimson. 
Fig. 1, part of a leaf; 2, male cone; 3, male scale; 4, pollen; 5, female cone; 
6, scale with seeds; 7, section of a seed; 8, seed with testa removed; 9, part 
of a seed with embryo attached to suspensor and with barren suspensors ;— 
4 and 9 enlarged. : 
