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Strobilus $ amplus, glaber, ovatus, pedunculo indumento lanuginoso deciduo sub- 

 vestito. Macrosporophylla 3 — 4 cm longa, 3 cm lata, basi cordato-reniformia, pedicello 

 2 cm longo, inferiora acuniine vix acuto, media brevi-acuminata, superiora summaque 

 in acumen ascendens planum pungens circiter 2 cm longum terminantia. 



West-Australien: an der Küste von Esperance Bay (W. Knight und W. Webb 

 in Herb. Melbourne). 



Nota 1. Visitantes regionem desertam, unde provenit, describunt truncum procumbentem: 

 quod quin incitatum sit frequentibus oceani tempestatibus dubium non est. 



Nota 2. Gl. F. de Mueller in Ghemist and Druggist 1885 notat speciem Macrozamiae truncis 

 ad 6 m altis inter Cape Arid et Cape Paisley in extremitate occidentalis Magni Sinus (regionis Great 

 Australian Bight) esse eandem. 



4. Stangeria Th. Moore. 



Stangeria*) Th. Moore, Natal Ferns in Hook. f. Journ. of Bot. V. (1853) 228; 

 J. Smith in Hook. f. Journ. of Bot. VI. (1854) 88; J. D. Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXXV. 

 (1859) t. 5121; Miq. Prodr. Gycad. (1861) 9, 18. — Cycadaceae spec. J. Smith in Seem. 

 Bot. Herald Voy. (1852 — 1857) 235. — Lomariae spec. Kunze in Linnaea X. (1836) 

 152, 506, XVIII. (1844) 116. 



Strobilus <J elongato-cylindricus. Microsporophylla late cuneiformia, breviter 

 stipitata, subtus crebre loculigera, apice sterili triangulari vel subrhombeo acutiusculo. 

 Strobilus $ ovoideus. Macrosporophylla magis concava, basi subcordata utrinque in 

 cavitate Ovulum recondentia, rotundato-lanceolata. Macrosporangia ovoidea vel süb- 

 globosa. — Arbuscula trunco humili subterraneo rapiformi vix cicatricato, simplici 

 dichotomo vel ramoso. Petiolus teres vel subteres. Foliola inaequaliter lanceolata vel 

 oblonga, acuminata vel rotundata, subundulato-repanda vel denticulato-serrulata, 

 simplicia vel dichotoma, basi catadroma decurrentia vel attenuata vel petiolata, nervo 

 mediano costato nervis secundis dense parallelis tenuibus fere perpendicularibus, 

 identidem dichotomis, partim anastomosantibus, coriacea, non articulata. Vernatio 

 rhachidis curvata, secus petiolum reflexa, foliolis mutuo oppositis, longitudinaliter 

 plicatis. 



Species 1, natalensis. 



St. paradoxa Th. Moore in Hook. f. Journ. of Bot. V. (1853) 228; J. Smith in Journ. 

 of Bot. VI. (1854) 88; J. D. Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXXV. (1859) t. 5121; Stevens in 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. II. (1854) 340; Yates in Rep. Brit. Associat. (1854) 105 et ap. Seemann, 

 Bot. Herald (1852-1857) 235; Hartinger, Paradis. Vindob. (1844-1860) t. 83; Pappe 

 et Rawson, Synops. Filic. Afric. austr. (1858) 53; Transact. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. XVI. 1. 

 (1906) t. 8 fig. 2, 3; Marloth, Fl. S. Africa I. (1913) 97 t. 14. - St. eriopus Nash in 

 Journ. New York Bot. Gard. X (1909) t. 62. — St. Zeyheri Auct. ex Stoneman, Plants 

 and their ways S. Africa ed. 2. (1915) 240. — Lomaria coriacea Kunze in Linnaea X. 

 (1836) 506 non Schrader. — L. eriopus Kunze in Linnaea XIII. (1839) 152, XVIII. 

 (1844) 116. — Truncus subterraneus humilis, rapiformis, cito laevigatus, vix cicatri- 

 catus, reliquiis foliorum delapsorum dense obscureque rugoso-annulatus, circiter 30 cm 

 altus, ad 10 cm latus, simplex vel 2— 4-ramosus, interdum 1 — 2-dichotomus. Gataphylla 

 late ovata, obtusa vel acuta, ciliata, 10 — 15 mm longa lataque, caduca. Petiolus teres 

 vel subteres, apicem versus superficie canaliculatus, 20 — 37 cm longus, ima basi tomen- 

 tosus ceterum glaber. Folia juvenilia pilosula, rhachi abrupte secus petiolum reflexa 

 eique omnino applicata. Folia adulta pauca 3 — 6, patentia, glabra, 50 — 70 cm longa. 

 Foliola 4 — 17-juga, inaequilatera, lanceolata vel oblonga, apice acuminata vel sub- 

 rotundata, 8 — 45 cm longa, 20 — 70 cm lata, saepissime a medio ad apicem, rarius apicem 

 versus tantum vel a basi ad apicem plus minus denticulato-serrata, leviter undulato- 

 repanda vel apicem versus crenato-repanda, sub apice interdum denticulo unico alterove 



*) In honorem Dr. Stanger, Surveyor General Natalensis, qui plantam a. 1851 e Port Natal 

 in Angliam misit: 



