Tas. 8242. 
CYCAS MicHOoLIrzit. 
Indo-China. 
~ Cycapacra ACEAR, Tribe CYCADEAE. 
| t Hook, f. Gen, Plant. vol, iii. p. 445. 
Cycas Micholitzii, Dyer in Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 142, figs. 48, 49; 
foliis paucis pinnulisque subdichotomis in genere insignis. 
Caudee nonnunquam subterraneus 20-60 em. longus, 4-5 cm. vel imo basi 
10-12 em. crassus. Folia 2-8, 2-8-metralia, parte basali metrali 1°5 cm. 
lata aculeis brevibus latioribus armata, sursum pinnulis inter se 4 cm. 
remotis 20 em. longis subdichotomis segmentis 2-2-5 cm. latis saepissime 
iterum divisis induta. Strobilus masculus breve pedunculatus, pedunculo 
3 em. longo 1°5 cm. crasso, subcylindricus, 15-18 em. longus, 4 cm. crassus, 
squamis subspathulatis glabris flavis margine aurantiacis 1 cm. longis, 
apice brevissime apiculatis 8 mm. latis. Carpophylli basi aurantiaci, 8 em. 
longi, lamina terminalis viridis obovato-rhombea, 3 ecm. lata, superne 
profunde pectinato-lacera.—D. PRrarn. 
3 Cycas Micholitzit was discovered in Annam by Mr. W. 
_ Micholitz, when collecting on behalf of Messrs. Sander & 
‘Sons. <A plant sent home by him in 1904, and a complete 
series of herbarium specimens were placed at the disposal of 
Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, whose formal description of the 
species was published in the following year. Complete 
material had also been communicated to Mr. H.N. Ridley, 
ector apore ; this, along with 
Ridley’s supervision, which ~ 
was also made use 
species. The most 
able 
of the pinnules, a 
an imperfectly known Cycas from Ch 
C’. Micholitzi: that the two may prove to be forms of the same 
species. C. Micholitziiisa sigadh Si of a small group, confined 
to an area which extends from Nepal to Annam, in which 
the margins of the carpophylls are pectinate. The original 
plants were described by Mr. Micholitz as having the stem 
Maron, 1909, 
