foot or more in diameter ; of a dark brown colour, clothed 
with withered, reflexed scales, and annulated from the 
scars of the former years’ circles of leaves. From the sum- 
mit of this stem springs a beautiful crown of feathery, lively- 
green foliage ; each leaf five to six feet long, spreading, 
most beautifully pinnated: pinne numerous, close set, 
linear-mucronate, dark green above, having a strong mid- 
rib, paler beneath, where the midrib is prominent, and the 
margin bent down or involute.. Rachis cylindrical. Stipes 
one to two feet long, triangular, with a row of spines on 
each side, which are abortive pinne. - From the centre of 
this superb crown of leaves, the fructification appears, 
The Male I have never seen ; nor do I know that it is any 
where correctly described. Even the Female I have not 
seen in the state of the germen. But the spadices of fruit 
which have been sent me in spirits, have advanced germens, 
which are roundish, compressed, notched, and woolly. 
About six are inserted, three on each side of a long, com- 
pressed, woolly, orange-coloured spadix, digitato-laciniate 
at the extremity, about a span long, and more or less 
incurved at their apices. These germens are quite desti- 
tute of perianth, and even when not fertilized, change into 
an orange-coloured, downy fruit, compressed, and notched 
at the extremity. The down soon disappears, and then the 
fruit becomes glabrous and deeper coloured, more inclining 
to red. Within the sinus of the notch is a raised papilla, 
small, with a circular, margined mouth. Nut oval, a little 
attenuated at the base, at the apex apiculated, with a sharp 
point, which answers to the ‘papilla above mentioned. 
Within, these nuts, not having been fertilized, exhibit only 
a withered and imperfect kernel, which it would be useless 
to describe. The fruits abound in a white, transparent 
mucilage. | | 
Having already at Tab. 2826 and 2827 of this work 
given figures and a: description of the more rare Cycas 
circinalis, I felt anxious to add a representation of the 
C. revoluta. Sir James Smiru has, indeed, given a very 
good figure in the Transactions of the Linnzan Society 
above quoted, from a plant that bore its female blossoms in 
the stove of the Bishop of Winchester, in 1799. But that 
belongs to a work which is in the hands of few. I am not 
aware that any plant has besides flowered in this country, 
till about the latter end of the present summer, (1829,) when 
Lord Miron politely invited me to Wentworth House, to 
See a specimen, then loaded with its rich and downy 
orange- 
