FZ CYCADE AE. 
utrinque prominula, subtus albida, ochroleuci margines re- 
curve, 
Length of the leaves altogether, some 8 feet, that of the 
Pinnulz l-foot 4 inches, 
Breadth of ditto 5-6 lines, 
The whole length of the fruit, leaf and all is between a 
span and a foot. The leaf, is covered with dense brown to- 
mentum. The part above the fruits which are bifarious and so 
crowded as to touch each other, very short, triangular cuneate 
divided along edges into subulate subspinous teeth, of which 
the centre one is much the longest. The fruits are sessile sur- 
rounded at the base by a sort of annulus, which is not covered, 
with tomentum, elliptic, and the size of a duck’s egg, viz. 24 
inches long, 1l inch 10 lines broad, so that the whole is heavy ; 
colour green, subsequently yellow, at the centre of the sub- 
depressed apex there is a brown mammillate point. 
Insertion by a broad base, nearly the size of the annulus. 
1. Outer tegument of short ochroleucous colour and dis- 
agreeable fleshy smell, 3 lines thick. 
2. Then brown drupaceous coat of fusiform cellular fibres, 
in the middle it is harder both on outer and inner surface. 
3. Then a thinish papery, vascular brownish coat. 
4, The Embryonary coat but separating with the preceding 
(except at the apex whereit is very thin membranous 
and shining, subapiculate and sphacelate at the apex). 
The`albumen is furrowed, and slightly furfaraceous out- 
side, as also combined in 3 and 4; the inner face is of elliptic 
form, rather compressed, with a 4-angular depression at the 
apex, angles at the base presenting a foveola or slit, from 
each of which a shrivelled subelastica strap hangs, till they 
all conflux into one, no embryo fofmed, nor did I hear of 
any male flowers being known. 
Han. Crew between Ayer Punnus and Tabong: only on q 
one spot and that near a Kuramut or Musulman tomb, so that — 
it may have been introduced. 
For my er of this I am indebted to Mr. Wester- 
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