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cacumen breve acutum reductum vel evanescens, ut duo suprema foliola lateralia 

 videantur dichotoma et terminalia. Strobilus <$ breviter pedunculatus, cylindrico- vel 

 oblongo-ovoideus, saepe 30— 45 cm longus. Microsporophylla 3— 5 cm longa, 12 — 

 23 mm lata, obovato-deltoidea, extrinsecus fusco-tomentosa, superne glabra, pars 

 dimidia superior sursum curvata et subito in acumen valde elongatum erectum vel 

 leviter curvatum subulatum pubescens, gradatim attenuatum, 25 — 40 cm longum pro- 

 ducta. Area microsporophyllorum fertilis apice fere biloba. Microsporangia numerosa, 

 nunc solitaria, nunc biloba, terna vel quaterna, unilocularia. Pollen rotundum. Macro- 

 sporophylla circiter 10 — 30 mm longa, ferrugineo- vel badio-tomentosa, e basi stipiti- 

 formi lineari-lanceolata supra medium ex utroque margine 2 — 10 ovula e propriis foveis 

 efformantia et in laminam terminalem sterilem desinentia. Lamina rhombifornris, 

 acuminata, supra medium breviter denticulato- vel crenulato-cristata, laminae diameter 

 transversus maximus 18 — 40 mm. Semina juniora pilosa, demum ab apice glabrata, 

 ovoideo-globosa, prunis maioribus haud dissimilia, 5 — 6 cm longa, 2,5 — 5,7 cm lata, 

 leviter complanata ,cortice glabro viridi nitente tecta, postea subflava et dein rubes- 

 centia, grati dulcisque saporis. Putamen lignosum magis globosum vel basin versus 

 piriformiter attenuatum, 3—3,5 mm diametro, ad latera paulo compressum, apice 

 biangulatum, subcristatum. 



Ostindien: Wight n. 2756 (foliolis angustissimis 5 mm latis); an der Küste von 

 Canara, bei Tellitscherry (Metz in Herb. Utrecht); Mangalor (Hohenacker PI. med. 

 IV. suppl. in Herb. Leningrad.); Kamlukum hill (Sulp. Kurz 1867 in Herb. DG.); 

 Chinglugut hüls (Brandis XII. 1882 in Herb. Hamburg). — Süd-Andamanen 

 (Sulp. Kurz 1867 in Herb. DG.). — Einh. Namen: Rengiva, Oras mato, Oru- 

 gura, Orguna, Oruna, Uriya, Per ita, Todda panna. — Fig. 40, IC; 10A, 

 F-G; HF. 



Var. 1. Beddomei*) (Dyer) Schuster. — C. Beddomei Dyer in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2. II. (1883) 85 t. 17; C. Beddomei hört, ex Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. (1888) 650. - 

 C. revoluta Beddome, For. Fl. (1869) 227.— Truncus parvus, circiter 6 cm altus, basibus 

 foliorum dense imbricatis glabrescentibus obtectus. Folia circiter 90 cm longa, 20 cm 

 lata. Rhachis subquadrangularis. Petiolus circiter 15 cm longus, acute quadrangulatus, 

 versus basin inermis, basi tomento crispo-lanuginoso vestitus. Foliola numerosissima, 

 15 — 16 cm longa, 2 — 2,5 mm lata, angustissime subito pungentia, linearia, spinoso- 

 acuminata, margine acute revoluta, infima abbreviata ad spinulas reducta, nervo 

 mediano paginae superiori immerso, infra valide prominente. Cataphylla lanceolata, 

 dense ferrugineo-tomentosa, 7 cm longa, 7 mm lata. Strobilus <J oblongo-ovoideus, 

 brevissime pedunculatus, 25 cm longus, 6 cm diam. Microsporophylla longe deltoidea, 

 primum fusco-pubescentia, deinde glabrescentia, 18 — 20 mm longa, 10 mm lata, basi 

 strobili erecto-ascendentia, deinde apicem versus valde deflexa in dimidio superiore 

 vel in duabus tertiis, area sterilis deltoidea, longe acuminata, acumine subulato, fragili, 

 dense ferrugineo-tomentoso 15 — 30 mm longo. Macrosporophylla gracilia, 10 — 20 mm 

 longa, ferrugineo-pubescentia, seniora glabra, longe lingulata,' supra medium ovula 

 utrinque 2 gerentia, lamina terminalis sterilis 7 cm longa, 10 — 20 mm lata, ovato- 

 lanceolata, subrhomboidea, longe acuminata, margine profunde dentato-lobato, seg- 

 mentis aculeatis spinosis 7 — 12 mm longis. Semina globosa, leviter compressa, 

 3,8 cm diam. 



Südindien: Madras, Guddapah Hills (A. W. Higgins 1885, n. 16597); Galicut 

 (A. Meebold II. 1905 in Herb. Berol.). — Madras: Hooker f. and Thomson in 

 Herb. Kew. — Java: Herb. Hort. Bogor. n. 3825 $; Zollinger n. 1161 $ ($ zu 

 C.Rumphii) in Herb. Wien; Strand, Zuidegh Seel (Herb. Hort. Bogor. n. 4a, 4b); 



*) Nomen in honorem Golonel Beddome, qui plantam primum adnotavit in libro suo 

 Foresters Manual of Botany for Southern India p. 227 sub nomine erroneo C. revoluta fre- 

 quenter in collibus Cuddapah et in aliis hujus territorii collibus versus orientem. 



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