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MacTozamia MacdonnellL 



F. M. Fragm. ii. 1 79 ; Alpli. de Caud. Prodr. xvi. pars ii. 537 ; Enccplialartos 



Macdouuelli, F. M. in Versl. K. Akad. Wet. Amsterd. xy. 376. 



Procera, foliis cloiigatis, folioUs valde nitmerosis latis j)Ianis, 

 nervis foliolorum inferiorum 1 0-] 2, ameiito fructifero pedali, 

 squamis ^nagnis cordato-reniformihus valde turgem 

 viuticis vcl iu apicem horizontalem obtusum aux 



deltoideiTm 



t^reviter protractis antice carinato-compressis, unguibus squama 

 brevioribus vel vix eidem a^quilongis. 



In Australia centrali ; e. g. Nealcs's River, J. Macd. Stuart ; 

 Giirs Range, Ernest Giles ; Lady Charlotte'3 Waters, Clirist. 

 Giles, 



Foliola ad 5'" usque latB, sub veruatioue bifariam vel ferc uni- 

 fai*iam superficiei rachcos horizontaliter appressa, quacura haud 

 manifeste torta. Amentum masculum nou habeo. Pcdunculus 

 amenti seminigeri pluripoUicaris, polliccm usquc crassus. Squama^ 

 latitudinem 2^' attinentes. Semina matura nondum allnta. 



E notis nunc prolatis hanc speciem squamis fere in modum 

 Encephalartorum muticis ad M. Fanli Guilielmi vergere, foliis 

 autem sicut magnitudine fructuum M. spirali et M. Preissii cou- 

 venire patet. 



Nativi plurium tribuum semina post macerationem pro cibo 



Gardeners' 



usitata ^^lllamh-uka, Iltuka atque Illowwa" vocant. 



Pra3clarus Dr. Masters M. plumosam (Bull in 



Chronicle, 187o, p. 652, c. xylogrammate) omni jure ad M. Fauli 

 Guilielmi duxit, Exemplaria a cl. Eamsay nuperrime communi- 

 cata varietatem squamis ex parte longe acuminatis (mucrone 

 ^r' longo) eximlam exhibent. 



Venerabilis A. Braun (Sitzungs-Bericht der Gesellschaft natur- 

 forschender Freande zu Berlin, -Fcbr. 1875) validitatem gcneris 

 Lepidozami^ vindicavit. Prajcl. Regel (Gartenflora, 1875) alteram 

 hujus gcneris vel subgeneris speciem admisit. 



Fascic, LXXVII. editus Augusto 1875, 



