portant to be injured by curtailment. They are slightly 
noticed in the above description of the female flower. 
I may here point out some differences which will besfound 
to exist between the figures in the splendid work of M. 
Ricuarp, and those here given. There, at tab. 24, the 
stems, as in Rueepe’s figures, are very strongly annulated; 
more so, as Dr. Hamirron remarks regarding the latter, 
than he ever observed on the growing plant; and which 
have, probably, that gentleman thinks, prevented Dr. 
Roxguren from quoting them in his Hortus Benghalensis. 
The male amentum too, at fig. A., is more pedunculated 
than in our plant, and the scales of it far more closely imbri- 
cated. Again, their scales, represented of the natural size, 
at tab. 25, are more elongated at the base, and very much 
less so at the extremity. At tab. 26. fig. D. the true fruit 
of Ricuarp, (f. 5.) which corresponds with what I call the 
seed, is represented, as more than half immersed in a fun- 
gous substance. This I did not find to exist in the only 
individual I examined, but which was in a state of great 
perfection. Immediately within the subosseous covering, 
was the brown membranous integument enveloping the 
albumen: the albumen, (nucleus of Ricnarp), fig. D, E, 
is far broader at the base than in my specimen, and the 
embryo, occupies a much greater portion of it. This 
embryo, too, f. F, G, has the cotyledons united for the 
greater part of the length ; whereas, I found them, though 
closely applied, unquestionably divided for their whole — 
length, and easily separated without causing the slightest — 
rupture, as far as the plumule, which, in rf vases was 
formed of two lobes; in Ricuarp’s figure H, f. 2, of one. 
Tan. 2826. 1. Cycas circinalis, Male Flowering Plant, reduced to about ,'; 
of the Size of the Plant of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 2. Male Amen- 
tum.— Natural size. 3. Upper Side of a Scale of the Male Amentum. 4. 
Under Side of Ditto.—Natural size. 5, 6, 7. Anther. 8. Pollen.—Mag- 
nified. 9. Small Pinna from a Leaf—Natural size. 
Tap. 2827. 1. Female Spadix (copied from Ricuarp). 2. Single Female 
Flower.—Magnisied ; also copied from Ricuarp. The letters are referred 
to in the description above given of that part. 3. Fruit.—Natural size. 4. 
Partial Section of Ditto, the Pulpy Coat being removed from the upper part. 
5. Section of the Albumen, showing the Insertion of the Embryo, a portion 
of the membranous covering above described remaining at a. 6. Embryo, 
with its filamentous Stalk drawn out. 7. Portion of the Embryo; one 
Lobe of the Cotyledons, 8, being removed to shew the Plumule,—Mag- 
nified. 
