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Mixteca, Puebla. It looks like Dioon edule and might be mistaken 

 for it. Years before the new species was described, Wieland figured 



Fig. 54.— Dioon edule: a female plant at Chavarrillo, near Jalapa, Mexico (Septem- 

 ber, 1906). The trunk is about 1.5 meters in height, and shows the armor of leaf bases. 

 It is about 1,000 years old.— x\fter Chamberlain.'"* 



it as Dioon edule, in the first volume of his American Fossil Cycads^^" 

 (his fig. loi). The drawing is so accurate, even in minor details, 



