744 DIOECIA MONANDRIA, Cycas. 
4, P. furcatus. Ro : . 
-Drupes of the oblong compound fruit cuneate, crowned 
with an incurved, polished, nr forked spine, nuts one- 
‘celled. 
~Kaida Tsjerria. Rheed. Mal, ii. #. 8. 
A native of Pegu, Chittagong, Malabar, &c. 
-&. P. inermis, R. 
‘Diffuse. Leaves ensiform, chamelled, unarmed, and po- 
lished. 
‘From Amboyna this pretty small species has been intro- 
duced into the Botanic garden, where it grows luxuriantly, 
spreading and leaning over a surface of several feet, and 
sending forth the usual fusiform roots which enter the soil, 
as in the other species, The leaves are from two to three 
feet long, highly polished, and in all our young plants with- 
out the smallest sign of a prickle, apices long” and mepaers 
gener —— 4 
CYCAS. 
Male ament strobile-shaped ; scales thereof covered on 
the under side with distinct, sessile, one-celled, two-valved. 
anthers. Female spadix with a few solitary, bifarious, al- 
conan, sessile, naked, one-celled germs on the margins, with 
single*ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. Styles 
sidgtt Drupe with a woody, one-celled nut. Embryo in- 
oe amply Feesialaest -daag perisperm and vitellus. 
1. C, circinalis, Willa, iv, BAA, : | 
Leaves pinnate, with long armed petioles, Sieh from 
fifty ‘wo aixty ‘parr,’ sub-alternate, rather remote, — linear 
C. inermis, Lour. Cochin Ch. 776. 
Olus Clappoides, Rumph, Sere i. t. 2 me female sant 
& 23, the male, : 
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