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CYCAS. 15 
. 5. Cycas dilatata. 
Trunk about 5 inches in diameter, externally marked with 
persistent bases of the petioles but not equally so, for in 
some places it is annulated, and almost smooth, in others 
crowded with the bases of the petioles. Here and there a 
ring occurs of smaller petiole bases, mixed with brown wool, 
marking the periods of inflorescence. 
Leaves about 4 feet long, the naked part of the petiole 14- 
16 inches long canaliculato-convex with teeth-like straight 
solitary distant prickles along the margins from abroad base. 
Pinnz 7-8 inches long, 33 lines broad, lower margin de- 
currence very coriaceous, unequally and very obtusely emar- 
ginate, points always appearing broken with one stout mid- 
vein prominent on both sides. 
Female inflorescence forming a dense terminal crown sur- 
rounded by several rows of abortive leaves subulate from a 
dilation of the base, entirely covered with pale and cold to- 
mentum, 
Carpel leaves erect, ovule-bearing, dense part ferruginous 
woolly, beyond these dilatated into a smoother fleshy sub- 
cordate lamina, the margins deeply incised into subulate 
green long subpungeut points, the apex broader entire 
subulately acuminate. The outermost bear no ovula: the next 
scarcely more than two. 
There are about 4 ovula, on either side, close to the limb, 
the lower part of the petiole being naked. 
Ovula attached by a broad base to a rather deep niche in 
the margin, about the size of a large pea, compressed, with 
a distinct apiculus, (the foramen). 
A long section presents a central gelatinous body, sur- 
mounted by an apiculate brown cone, the apiculus of which 
corresponds with the foramen, the cone is hollow. 
The crown of fruit (immature) is broader but so depressed 
at the apex as to be quite flat or almost concave. The carpel 
leaves are no longer erect, but curved, and the lamina is 
much broader and very concave. 
