14 CYCADEJXE. 
10-16 inches long, half an inch broad, alternate at the base 
where the lower edge is subdecurrent, gradually acuminated 
towards the apex into a sub pungent subulate point, margins f 
recurved. 3 
Cone of male flowers about 13-14 inches long; the short : 
stalk surrounded by subulate pungent-poiuted abortive leaves, 
covered with rust-colored wool-scales cuneate, excluding the 
apiculus about 9 lines long, 6 lines across in the broadest 
part, upper margin thickened cartilaginous-looking, from its 
centre arises a subulate acumen retrofractedly ascending, 34- 
4 lines long. Pollen cells in groups of 3-5 opening longitu- 
dinally along inner face. 
Fruits crowded together into a terminal mass, intermixed 
with abortive leaves like those surrounding the male cone. 
Carpel leaves nodding 6-10 inches long, bearing the seeds 
about 4-5 inches from the base or abortive ovula, (these are | 
sometimes as many as 8) beyond these expanded into a short 
triangular cuneate lamina, with pectinate edges, the central 
pectea being much the largest : where the seeds are attached 
expanded into sort of smooth annulus.* Seeds yellow elliptic 
(very large) 2-3 lines long,17 lines across the short diameter, 
183 across the longer. In the centre of the subdepressed 
apex is a brown mammillate point, the foramen. Hilum 
nearly as large as the annulus. 
Outer tegument 3 lines thick composed of short ochroleu- 
cous flesh with a disagreeable smell. Drupaceous coat brown, 
composed of fusiform cellular fibres. 
Inner tegument thinnish brown, papery, vascular. Third 
tegument separating with this except at the apex, where it is 
apiculate sphacelated, thin membranous and shining. 
Albumen with a quadrangular depression at the apex; 
angles, with a foveola or slit at the fundus. From each o 
. these hangs a subelastic strap which all becomes confluent 
sE gives attachment to the embryo. 
* N. B. The left hand figures (Pl. OCOLX.) not numbered or 
named on the original drawing perliaps refer to this species. Ed. : 
