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soideus squamatus; innovationibus villoso-hirsutis?, noster glaber. 
Folia basi sordide ochrascenti-griseo-villosa, sensim glabres- 
centia, peliolata, ambitu lanceolata; foliola infima depauperata 
(satis subito nec leni transitu in normalia continuata, ita ut folii 
lamina normalibus foliolis munita a petiole apice abortivorum 
rudimentis instructo quasi sit discriminata), parva tripartita lobis 
lanceolatis spinoso-acutis, ima ad spinas trifidas denique indivisas 
1-2 lin. longas redaeta ; foliola reliqua in sicco chartaceo-perga- 
macea lucidula nervis usque 20 simplicibus et bifidis notata, medii 
folii 5 + poll. longa, $ poll. lata, serraturis in margine superiore 
9-h, in inferiore 4-5, serratura suprema utrinque apice paullo 
minus approximata quam in sequentibus capensibus, qua in re 
autem non nisi exiguum discrimen est. Conus masculus pedunculo 
glabro, calamum scriptorium in sicco fere crasso, hie illic cica- 
tricibus (an squamarum deciduarum ?) notato, 5 5 poll. longo suf- 
fultus, cylindricus, ; pede paullo longior, 1 £ poll. diam., in sicco 
atrofuscus, glabriuseulus, pube tenerrima parea sub lente in andro- 
phyllorum facie externa instructus: Androphylla spiraliter dispo- 
sita (in dimidio gyro circiter 5), ima et suprema subdiíformia, 
reliqua horizontaliter patentia, satis arcte contigua, cuneata, 9 lin. 
longa, sub apice sterili 4-fere 5 lata; pars locellifera trigona, (sed 
. diametro tangentiali majore), euneata faciebus 2 inferioribus sub 
angulo obtuso coeuntibus totis locelliferis, areis scil. omnino 
in unam confluentibus, facie superiore plana 2 poll. circiter longa 
et apice lata, linea mediana elevatiore percursa, superne in andro- 
phylli apicem sterilem rectangulo-deflexum transeunte, qui crassus 
extus conspectus peltam referens planam rhombeam vel angulo 
superiore rhombi deficiente subtriangularem, apice. deflexo quasi 
cieatrisato- truncato, angulis exterioribus peltæ in corporis locelli- 
feri margines laterales acutos transeuntibus. Locelli polliniferi 
qui fere usque ad basin corporis obvii ternatim et quaternatim 
eonjuneti, ochraceo-fusei, pilis interjectis vix ullis manifestis. Coni 
feminei delineatio prostat ; totus absque pedunculo h ? poll. longus, 
ellipsoideus, carpophyllis in gyris magis obliquis, paucioribus quam 
