746 DIOECIA MONANDRIA. Cycas. 
free onall sides. Corol none. Filaments none. Anthers per- 
fectly distinct, numerous, entirely covering the under surface 
of the scales of the strobile, one-celled, two-valved, opening 
round the apex for the discharge of the pollen. Pisti/ nothing 
hike one to be found. 
Femate. In May 1804 a female plant blossomed at the 
same time the above-mentioned three male trees were in flow- 
er. The female tree is rather higher and more robust than the 
largest of the males, and its inflorescence differs but little from 
that of revoluta, viz. a strobiliform cone crowning the stem 
surrounded with a circle of leaves exactly like those of the 
male. This strobile is composed of many exterior, barren, 
villous, cuspidate scales called stipules in the male, imme- 
diately within are the downy, compressed, clavate, spatulate, 
two-edged spadices; on the sides, about the middle of each, 
the naked, round, smooth, one-celled, one-sided germs are im- 
mersed, generally two on each side, crowned with a minute 
style, and a perforated, callous, margined stigma. Beyond 
the germs the spadix becomes incurved, and of a dilated, 
rhomb shape, with the exterior margins cut into several su- 
bulate, straight segments, the middle one being much longer, 
larger, and more villous that the rest. Drupe oval, of the size 
of a small pullet’s egg, somewhat flattened, smooth till they 
become wrinkled by drying ; when ripe yellow, one-celled. 
Nut conform to the drupe, ligneous, one-celled, lined on the 
inside with much brown, spongy matter, particularly about 
. C revoluta, Willd. i iv. 844, 
Leaves pinnate, with short, armed petioles; leaflets ap- 
proximate, from one to two hundred pairs, linear, with a spi- 
nous point, and revolute margins, 
C. revoluta, Smith in Trans, of Linn, Soc. vi. 312. t. 29, 
30 ; excellent for the female plant, 
The female of this charming species, is very common in 
gardens about Calcutta, where it grows in about the space 
