34 CXIX. CYCADER. 
in 2-valved cells, which cohere by twos, threes, or fours.—Fe- 
males either collected in cones or surrounding the central bud 
in the form of contracted leaves or scales. Ovules exposed on 
the margin of the scale or contracted leaf. Embryo in the 
axis of fleshy or horny albumen; radicle next the apex of the 
seed.—Arborescent plants, resembling small Palms or Tree- 
ferns, with cylindrical, simple or branched trunks, crowned 
with many long, pinnatisect leaves. 
Stem cylindrical ; pimne of the leaves without mid- 
rib, finely many-nerved longitudinally . . . . 1, ENCEPHALARTOS. 
Stem turnip-like ; pinnez midribbed, with divergent, 
forked veins Se ek gw OS A Se 
1. ENCEPHALARTOS, Lehm. 
Flowers in catkins.—Male: Catkins peduncled, terminal, 
their scales rhomboid-peltate, with a narrow, thickened apex, 
covered everywhere on the lower surface, with sessile, 1- 
locular anthers.—Female: Cone with rhomboid-peltate scales, 
dilated and thickened at the apex. Ovules in pairs, inverted. 
Seed with a fleshy covering and a bony coat.—Hndl. Gen. 
n. 705. 
Trees, with cylindrical, simple trunks, rough with the bases of fallen 
leaves. Leaves (or fronds) crowning the trunk, pinnatisect, the pinnee 
broad-based, sessile, without obvious midrib, many-nerved, often spimous- 
toothed above the middle.—There are several species, natives of the Eastern 
district and the countries beyond. Colonial name “ Kafir Bread.” 
2. STANGERIA, T. Moore. 
Flowers in catkins —Male: Catkins cylindrical, with rhom- 
boid scales, bearing innumerable, 1-celled, subsessile anthers. 
—Female: Cone ovoid or shortly cylindrical. Ovules in pairs, 
inverted.— Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5121. 
A small, ligneous plant, with a short, swollen stem, scarcely scarred. 
Leaves few, from the apex of the stem, pinnate, glabrous; pinnz opposite, 
in about 12 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, spinose-serrulate beyond 
the middle, with a strong midrib, from which diverge to the margin, very 
closely set, subparallel, forked veins. ‘The petiole, scales at base of cones, 
and the catkins densely woolly.—S. paradoxa, Moore, found at Natal. 
