Encejjhalartos .] cxxx. CYCADACEiE (Prain). 349 



2. E. Poggei, Aschers. in Vcrh. Bol. Vrr. brdnd. xx. (1878), xxxv. 

 Stem short or very short, ellipsoid or subeylindric, casually forked, 

 1-2 ft. high, 8 in. thick, closely covered with alternatin;L; scales and 

 persistent imbricating leaf-bases clothed with shaggy grey tomentuni. 

 Leaves 2|-4 ft. long, 8-10 in. wide above the middle, glaucesccul, 

 petiole and rhachis subeylindric, clothed at first with shaggy to- 

 mentum which partially persists near the base ; pinnules rigidly 

 coriaceous, 20-60 pairs, linear- lanceolate, very slightly falcate, 4-6 

 in. long, -J-J in. wide, abruptly slightly unequally narrowed at the 

 base, apex acute, pungent, margin usually entire occasionally with 

 2-3 diverging teeth along the lower edge, and with 1-4 diverging 

 teeth mainly near the base rarely entire along the u})})cr edge. Male 

 cones peduucled, greenish or orange-yellow, narrow cylindric, 6-8 in. 

 long, 2\ in. wide ; peduncles 4 in. long, nearly glabrous ; scales 

 spreading, deltoid, fertile portion -J in. long, not much longer than 

 broad, apex rhomboid, 1 in. across, the lateral angles acute, the others 

 very obtuse, ridged and faintly faceted, not umbonate. Female 

 cone subsessile, green, at length becoming pale salmon-coloured, 

 oblong-ellipsoid, 8-9 in. long, 4J in. wide ; apex of scales wide- 

 rhomboid, lf-2 in. across, f-| in. deep, lateral angles explanate, 

 upper and lower very obtuse, surface divided into 3-4 facets, centre 

 raised but not umbonate. Seeds ovoid, faintly angled, about 1 in. 

 long; outer coat brownish-red.— De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 

 184, and Not. PL Util. Congo, i. 388, 396 ; Engl. Pfianzenw. Afr. ii. 84. 

 E.lemarinelianus, De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxix. 80-82 ; De Wild. ]^tudes Fl. Bas-et Moven-Congo, i. 9, tt. 

 23, 24, Not. PI. Util. Congo, i. 390, tt. 25, 26, 28, figs. I, II, PI. Laurent 

 12 {IcniarinelUanus) , Miss. E. Laurent, 364, figs. 56, 57, 59 {Irniari- 

 nclliayms), and Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 176, 183 ; Gentil, Rev. Hort. Belg. 

 1904, 7, and Gard. Chron. 1904, xxxv. 370, figs. 164, 165 ; Andre, 

 Rev. Hort. 1904, 58, fig. 23; Bois. Rev. Hort. 1907, 177, figs. 60, 

 61 ; Thonncr, Bliiten])fl. Afr. t. 1 ; Engl. IMlauzenw. Afr. ii. 84 : Th. 

 & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 650. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Liialaba-Kasai district ; plateau Ix-tweeii 

 the Luisa and tlic Ca.sserigi Riveis, Pogyc ; Bena-ganza. near tlif J.ualK) Hi\rr, 

 Poggc ; right bank of the Lubi River, Li nuirinel ! left l)ank of tht- Luhia Ki\f r, 

 near Luluabourg, Gcntil ; Kanda-Kanda, d'cntil ; brtwrin Kanda KaniUi and 

 Luaambo, Gcntil ; without precise locality, PyiKu rt. 



The Tc/iiondo of tiic K;uiioka, Biondo oi the l^aluba, Ltdoitdo or Kahthn Knho 

 of the Lulua, this siH>cie.s ha.s no economic vahu' ; it occurs in dry savannahs 

 and survives the annual grass-tires {(hntil). The leaves an> deciducujs, ^li^c• 

 appearing during the hot season; the fri-sh foliage H]>rings up wlun the rain.s 

 coramence (Lnurcnl). The plant has been iiitroduti'd t(» cultivatittn through 

 the efforts of Leraarinel, l^aiirent, (Jentiland Pynaert. l^inarinels f)lant has 

 been treated by De WikU man as distinct from that of Pogge, iHTlmpn owing 

 to De Wildeman's belief that Pogges plant is an Angolan sjH-cies which only 

 occurs outside the limits of the Belgian Congo. The lorality in which I'ogge 

 oritrinally found this Cycad is, however, within the Lualaba-K;isai di^trict, 

 betw(>en the Kasai and the Sankuru, not far south of .Mussumba; PogL'e met 

 with it again, prior to its re-discovery by Lemariucl, in a locality within tho 



