86 MR. W. Т. THISELTON DYER ON A NEW SPECIES OF CYCAS. 
The only stems I have seen are small, not more than a few inches high, and clothed 
with the glabrescent closely imbricated leaf-bases. Leaves about 3 feet long, 9 in. 
broad; rhachis subquadrangular ; petiole about 6 in. long, strongly 4-angled, the upper 
third furnished with a few minute teeth, the base clothed with a tufted tomentum ; leaf- 
segments strongly revolute, about $ in. wide. Male cone about 13 in. long, 3 in. in diam., 
slightly stipitate ; scales tapering acuminate from an oblong-deltoid base, erect at the base 
of the cone, strongly deflexed in the upper half or two thirds. Carpophylls 6-8 in. long, 
bearing 4 ovules above the middle; lamina about 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
with a long acuminate point; margin deeply laciniate, segments tapering into aculeate 
spines, seeds globose, 14 in. in diameter, sometimes slightly compressed. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE. 
PLATE XVII. 
Cycas Beddomei, Dyer, n. sp. 
Fig. 1, upper part of frond; 2, lower part of same; 3, male cone; 4, antheriferous scale of male 
cone; 5, carpophyll with ovules; 6 & 7, ovules in different stages of growth; 8, carpophyll 
with mature seeds, all of natüral size. 
