a 
* 
incl 
from the extremity, pinnated, with linear-lanceolate, nearly 
Cycas frondibus pinnatis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, stipitibus 
spinosis. Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p. 393. (“« excl., nisi Ratt, sy- 
nonymis omnibus.” ) 
Toppa panna. Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 3. p. 9. t. 13—21. 
Ouvs calappoides e Celebe vel ex insulis Ulasseriensibus. 
Herb. Amb. v. 1. p. 87, 89. t. 22, 23. 
Pata Indica; caudice in annulos protuberante distincto. 
Rati Hist. 1360. = 
Descr. Mate Prant. Trunk, when attaining its full 
hte from fifteen to twenty feet high ; in the individual — 
om which our drawing was taken, and to which I shall 
confine my description, between four and five feet, and half 
a foot in diameter, of an equal thickness throughout, 
marked with the scars whence the old leaves have fallen, 
but scarcely annulated ; between which scars, the trunk is 
shaggy with the old, and jagged downy scales or stipules, 
which accompany the base of the leaves, and which are 
yet in a perfect state at the top of the stem: these are 
cordate and turgid at their base, and very much acumi- 
nated. From amongst them, and at the very top of the 
stem, is a crown of most beautiful foliage. The spread of 
the leaves is twelve feet, each six and eight feet long, 
uding the petiole; for three quarters of the len i. 
orizontal, plane, subflexuoso-falcate pinne, from twelve 
urteen inches long, dark green on the upper side, 
paler beneath, quite glabrous, having a strong, pale mid- 
rib running through the centre. Rachis unarmed. Petiole 
swollen at the base, clothed with ferruginous, evanescent 
down, and unarmed ; upwards glabrous; and spinous at the 
margin, from abortive pinne. The young leaves have a 
fo beautiful appearance, being of a delicate pale green, 
and having the pinne singularly involute, like the young 
fronds of a Fern. . 
From among the crown of the leaves, at the top of the 
trunk, and — if not entirely sessile, is the male amen- 
tum produced. ‘This is between four and five inches long, 
ovate. Scales large, loosely imbricated, ferruginously 
downy ; the lower half tapering, inserted horizontally, the 
upper half takes a curvature upwards and tapers into an 
erect, sharpened, and long point. Upon these scales, on 
the under side of the lower half, the numerous Anthers are 
crowded 
