202 BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OP H.M.S. HERALD. 
and in lilvc manner suddenly contracted near the bottom ; the conical portion near the top not solid, but 
consisting of small abortive scales, irregularly shaped, and set closely together; beneath this part the 
scales are placed in columns, one scale exactly under another ; their peltate terminations distinctly hexa- 
gonal ; covered with a short brown tomentum. The plant now bears three male cones on strong thick 
peduncles. Largest cone with stalk 19 c. long, viz. stalk 6 c, cone 13, scales in twenty-one columns, each 
of thirty-two scales ; circumference of cone at the thickest part 7^ c. Second cone 16 c. long, viz. stalk 5 c. ; 
cone 11 ; scales in twenty columns, each of twenty-eight to thirty perfect scales, and about seven small 
and imperfect, forming the conical summit. Third cone 13 c. long, viz. stalk 4 c. ; cone 9 ; eighteen 
columns, each of twenty-seven or twenty-eight perfect scales. Two of these cones are now preserved in 
fluid in the Museum at Kew. Instead of being on the under surface of the scale, the anthers are placed 
as shown in the plate, viz., two rows of anthers on each side of the scale, and generally four anthers in each 
row. 
" March 8th, 1852. — The plant has two new cones, the larger 21 c. long without the stalk." 
Plate XLIII. Fig. 1, male cone, natural size ; 2, 3, and 4, scales ; 5 and G, anthers, magnified. 
915. Zamia pseudo-parasitica (Yates, MSS.) ; caudice cylindrico, foliolis falcatis integerrimis 
glabris basi acutis apice cuspidatis, cono . . . Chagres, Province of Panama^ growing epiphytically 
on trees (Warszewicz) . 
Mr. Tates has supplied the following note : — " Zamia psetido-parasitica, Yates, MSS., so called because 
it grows on the trunks of trees, was sent from Chagres, by Mr. AVarszewicz. The lower part of the stem 
was decayed, the upper alive, cylindrical, short, with remains of seven leaves ; it was accompanied by six 
leaflets, which have no tooth at the extremity j on that account, I think it a little doubtful whether this is 
not a Ceratozamia. The leaflets are falcate, with a double curvature, so as to approach the form of the 
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letter S. Length 35 c. ; greatest width 4 c. ; ner\'ures broad and strong, twice bifurcate, terminating in 
the margin and apex.'* 
916. Zamia Skinnerij Warsz. in Otto and Dietr. Gartenz. vol. xix. p. 146, cum icon. Cape 
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CorricnteSj Daricn; Vcraguas (Warszcwicz) • 
" Wten I was at Berlin/' says Mr. J. Tates, "In tlio autumn of 1850, I was informed that M. von 
Warszewicz, a Polisli botanical traveller, liad discovered two ver}'' remarkable species in the mountainous 
regions of the Isthmus of Panama, which he called Zamia Idndle^i, after Professor Lindley, and Zamia 
Skinneriy after Mr, G, Skinner, of Chipperfield House, King's Langley, Herts- When he was afterwards 
in London, I commissioned him to procure for me these species, or any others, which were now or re- 
markable. He sent nie a stem of each of these, Z. LindJcyi and Skinneri^ with the stem of another {Z^ 
pseudo-parasitica). Each stem was accompanied with leaflets. They were put on board the steamer at the 
port of Chagres. When they arrived in London, consigned to Mr. Skinner, he found the Z, lAndleyi com- 
pletely perished, ' a mere squash,* so that he could not lift it. The stem of the Z. pseudo-parasitica was 
^0 in great part rotten. The stem of the Z, Shinneri appears healthy. It is 30 c. long, 24 c. in cir. 
ciunfereuce ; twelve leaves have been cut away, I received with it five leaflets, much shattered, and the 
drawing which Warszewicz made of the plant on his former journey. This shows that there were twelve 
leaflets on a leaf. The following is the description of a leaflet taken JErom the largest : — Leaflet 33 c. 
long, 13 c. broad, ovato-lanceolate. A slender delicate nervure runs up each margin of the leaflet ; be- 
tween these two arise nine strong nervures united at the base, bifurcating a short way above the base, 
then bifurcating a second time, and some of them even a third time ; after each bifurcation nearly parallel, 
and terminating in spines upon the upper and lower margins of the leaflet about two-thirds of the way 
down; the upper surface of the 'dried leaflet glistens and resembles cuticle. In those leaflets, which are 
