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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 1] [1916 
I.—CYCAS THOUARSII. 
* O. Srapr. 
In a letter to Kew, giving an interesting account of Sir John 
Kirk’s garden at Zanzibar, Miss C. D. M. T ackeray, on present 
owner of Shamba la Ba lozi, iitowe attention to another Cycad 
Lesides Encephalartos Hildebrandt (see K.B., 1914, 386-392) 
also planted by Sir John Kirk, bearing very iraceful long fronds 
with narrow pinnules aiiich are perfectly smooth and lighter in 
colour than those of the Encephalartos. Miss Thackeray adds 
of side shoots is uncommon. : 
This Cycas is repeatedly mentioned in Sir John Kirk’s letters, 
and sometimes called by him the ‘‘cernuum cycas,’’ no doubt on 
account of the somewhat drooping fronds. He became familiar 
with it in the delta of the Zambesi, where he observed and 
collected it on the Luabo distributary, and along the coast 
between the Kongoni and Melambe mouths in 1858 and 1859; 
but all the specimens he came across there were fema le. en 
fig Ther en, i 8 8, he writes agai re are cerntum 
(cveads) at Mraback but that is a fan way off. However, I 
will get you a 5 ft. stem, I hope. In ue meantime I shall try 
(4233.) Wt. 153-601. 1,125. 2/16. J.T.&S. G. 14, 
