CYCADALES 



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Cycas. — This genus, like the American genus Zamia, has a wide 

 distribution, its various species ranging beyond AustraHa into the 



Fig. 62. — Cycas media: a female plant with ripe seeds, at Frenchman's Creek, on the 

 farm of Mr. Sydney W. Snell, near Rockhampton, Australia. The trees are Eucalyp- 

 tus (November, 191 1). 



islands north, even to the southern part of Japan ; while a couple of 

 species are found on the mainland of India and China, and one even 

 in Madagascar. 



