CYCADACEAE. 463 



female cone persistent, bearing 2 sessile, ovoid ovules. Seeds more or less 

 angled, the testa fleshy. [Said to be Latin for a fir-cone.] About 25 species, 

 natives of tropical and subtropical America. Type species, Zamia pumila L. 



Leaflets 3-15 mm. wide. 



Leaflets 7-15 mm. wide, close together. 1. Z. pumila. 



Leaflets 3-7 mm. wide. 



Leaflets distant, 3-6 mm. wide ; scales of male cone wider 



than high. 2. Z. angustifolia. 



Leaflets closer together, fi-7 mm. wide; scales of male 



cone scarcely wider than high. 3. Z. tenuis. 



Leaflets about 2.5 cm. wide. 4. Z. lucaijana. 



1. Zamia pumila L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1659. 1763. 



Caudex stout, 2 dm. long or longer, the upper part usually exposed, but 

 sometimes completely buried. Basal scales ovate, acute or acuminate, villous, 

 2-3 cm. long; petiole silky-villous below, glabrous above; leaves 3-10 dm. long; 

 leaflets 20-50, coriaceous, shining, 5-15 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, entire, or few- 

 toothed at the obtuse apex, the pairs separated 0.5-2 cm.; peduncles stout, 

 villous-pubescent, 5-10 cm. long; male cone oblong, 5-8 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. 

 thick, its scales tomentose, broader than high or the lower nearly equally broad 

 and long; ripe female cone ellipsoid, 7-11 cm. long, 5-8 cm. thick, short-tipped, 

 its hexagonal scales tomentose, broader than high ; seeds angled, 2-2.5 cm. long. 



Thickets and woodlands among rocks, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence : 

 Florida ; Cuba. Bat-rush. 



2. Zamia angustifolia Jacq. Coll. 3: 263. 1789. 



Caudex slender, 2 dm. long or longer, completely buried in sand. Basal 

 scales broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, densely villous 3-5 cm. 

 long; leaves 2-10 dm. long; leaflets 5-20 pairs, narrowly linear, entire or with 

 a few callous teeth at the obtuse apex, 5-20 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, nearly par- 

 allel-margined or slightly tapering to both ends, shining, the pairs distant, 

 those of larger leaves about 2 cm. apart; peduncles villous, those of male cones 

 5-8 cm. long, those of female cones stouter; male cone oblong-cylindric, 5-7 

 cm. long, about 2 cm. thick, pointed, its scales oblong, or rotund, hexagonal, 

 tomentose, 6-7 mm. wide, 3-5 mm. high; ripe pistillate cone 8-9 cm. long, 

 about 5 cm. thick, stout-tipped, its scales 2-2.5 cm. wide, about 1.5 cm. high; 

 seeds 2 cm. long, red. 



In white calcareous sand, Eleuthera : ; Cuba. Narrow-leaved Bay-rush. 



3. Zamia tenuis Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 846. 1806. 



Caudex unknown definitely. Leaves 6 dm. long or longer; leaflets 40 or 



fewer, narrowly linear, 7-17 cm. long, 6-7 mm. wide at or below the middle, 



tapering to the obtuse, callously 1-several-toothed apex, the pairs separated by 



1.5 cm. or less; peduncles pubescent; male cone cylindric, its scales described 



as subquadrate-hexagonal, tomentose, little broader than high. 



Bahamas, according to Willdenow and subsequent authors. A leaf from a New 

 Providence plant, communicated by Hon. IT. A. Brook, is tentatively referred to this 

 species. A specimen from near S'ucvitas, Cuba {Shafer 70S), is also referred to it 

 with hesitation. A leaf of the type specimen is figured by Miquel (Linneae 19 : pi. 6). 

 The species may not be distinct from Z. angustifolia. 



4. Zamia lucayana Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 311. 1907. 



Caudex stout, subfusiform, about 3 dm. long, 1 dm. thick, two thirds buried 

 in the ground. Leaves glabrous, about 1 m. long; petiole obtusely angled, 3-4 

 dm. long; rachis somewhat angled; leaflets about 14 on each side of the rachis, 

 spreading nearly at right angles, 17-21 cm. long, 2-2.7 cm. wide, 4-5 cm. apart, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, or irregularly rounded or subtruncate, and finely sparingly 



