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spinescente instructa, summa nonnunquam grosse lobato-serrata, dichotoma vel sim- 

 plicia, basi anadroma valde attenuata, catadroma late decurrente, media superiora 

 decurrentia, media inferiora basi catadroma quoque attenuata, infima in petiolum 

 1 — 3 cm longum subito constricta, magis antrorsum vergentia, penninervia nervo 

 mediano valde costato- prominente, nervis secundis divergentibus 60 — 70° dense 

 parallelis, identidem dichotomis, raro hie illic transverse anastomosantibus, tenuiter 

 prominentibus, coriacea vel subcoriacea, margine subtus incrassatulo, plerumque oppo- 

 sita, haud articulatim inserta. Foliola juvenilia longitudinaliter complicata, tomentosa. 

 Strobili (J solitarii vel plures, elongato-cylindracei, apicem versus saepe paulum 

 attenuati, 10 — 30 cm longi, 2 — 3,5 cm lati, parte superiore et externa microsporo- 

 phyllorum cinereo-tomentosi, peduneulo 4 — 34 cm longo, cinereo- vel niveo-tomentoso. 

 Microsporophylla basi late euneiformia, breviter stipitata, apice sterili late triangulari 

 vel subrhombeo recurvo, acutiusculo-acuminato, margine superiore fusco glabrato 

 brevissime denticulato, ceterum griseo-cincinnato, 7 — 12 cm lato, 5 — 9 mm alto. 

 Strobilus $ ovoideus vel brevi-cylindricus, 9 — 18 cm longus, 4 — 7,5 cm latus, pedun- 

 eulo ad 25 cm longo. Macrosporophylla breviter stipitata, e basi subcordata subro- 

 tundato- vel late-lanceolato-acuminata, margine crenulato-denticulato, valde coneava, 

 basi utrinque cavitate ovula inter fossulas alte excavatas usque ad apicem fere inclu- 

 dentia. Macrosporophylli pars sterilis sursum arreeta late obovato-trapezoidea, den- 

 sissime griseo- vel albido-tomentosa, 25—35 cm longa, 15 — 20 mm alta. Semina 

 ovoidea vel subglobosa, 2,5 cm longa, 2 — 2,5 cm lata, rubro-aurantiaca. 



Var. 1. Katzeri (Regel) R. Marloth, Fl. South Africa I. (1913) 97 f. 63. - St. Katzeri 

 Regel in Gartenfl. XXIII. (1874) 163 t. 798. - St. spec. Hort. Paullowsk. - Ic: 

 Strauß in Gartenfl. LXIII. (1914) t. 1598; Bot. Mag. LXXXV. (1859) t. 5121; - 

 Petiolus 20 — 37 cm longus. Foliola 8 — 19 cm longa, 2 — 6 cm lata, coriacea, obverse 

 oblonga, glabra, margine leviter undulato-repanda vel repando-crenata, apice magis 

 obtusulo. 



Süd-Ost-Afrika: Pondoland, zwischen Steinen auf Triften, an trockenen Orten 

 (F. Bachmann VI. 1888, n. 1694); Pondoland, Grasheideland, 200-500 m (G. Bey- 

 rich 1887 n. 424); Pondoland, Egosawald, 200 — 500 m (C. Beyrich n. 415). — Süd- 

 West-Natal: District Alexandra, Station Dumisa, Farm Friedenau, waldige Abhänge 

 am Umtwalumi (Rudatis n. 669); im Walde, steinige grasige Abhänge, Bachufer bei 

 Station 2 (F. Bachmann VIII. 1888 in Herb. Berol.). — Einheimischer Namen 

 in Süd -West -Natal: Finguane oder Juma. — Fig. 2E; kB — C\ 5A—K; $E; 

 15A-K; Taf. 3. 



Nota. Nuces a caffris ad tegumen penis adhibentur. 



F. 1. schizodon Schuster. — St. schizodon Bull Gatal. (1872) 8. — St. Sanderiana 

 Hort. Durnowo. — Foliola e basi ad apicem serrata. — Fig. 15 C. 



Natal: District Alexandra, Station Dumisa, Farm Friedenau, waldige Abhänge 

 am Umtwalumi, 600 m (A. Rudatis 1. VIII. 1909 n. 669); Station Friedenau, Um- 

 gege flat (Alexandra City), Emsdale am Umtwalumi, schattige Orte, steinige Abhänge, 

 600 m (H. Rudatis 1. VIII. 1909 in Herb. Berol.). — Kultiviert zuerst im Bot. Garten 

 Leningrad, im Garten Herrenhausen 1900. — Fig. 15 5; Taf. 3. 



Nota. Ductus mucigeri in foliolis desunt; in planta typica plerumque deesse solent. Haec 

 variationes sine dubio oecologia proereantur. 



5. EncephalartOS Lehmann. 



Encephalartos*) Lehmann, Pugill. VI. (1834) 3 t. 1-5; Miq. Monogr. Cycad. (1842) 

 39 t. 1 f. u*, t. 2 f. F*; Miq. in Linnaea XVII. (1843) 709; XIX. (1847) 417 t. 5; Prodr. 

 Cycad. (1861) 8,18; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. III. (1881) 445. - Encephallartes Endl. 



*) Nominis rationem intelligas ex Ivxiyakog et uoxog, egregie datum plantis illis quas nostrates 

 in illa terra ob usum fruetuum in conis cephalicis dispositorum panis arbores dixerunt. 



