850 cxxx. CYCADACE^ (Prain). [Encephalartos. 



sanio district but 150 miles further north {Lemarinel) ; so fai', it lias not been 

 found in Angola (Fogge). Aschcrson describes the apex of tlic scales of the 

 female cone as distinctly umbonate ; they are, as De VVildeman remarks, raised 

 in the centre, but there is no umbo such as that which characterise3 the scales 

 of the female, cone in E. Barteri and in E. Hildebrandtii. 



3. £i. septentrionalis, Schiveinf. in Bot. Zeit. xxix. (1871), 33^. 

 Stem usually very short, globose, 1 ft. in diani., hardly rising above the 

 soil, but sometimes developing a stout cylindric trunk 2 ft. high, 

 closely covered with alternating scales and persistent imbricating leaf- 

 bases clothed with dense grey tomentum. Leaves 5 ft. long, 7-9 in. 

 wide above the middle, dark green ; petiole and rhachis subcylindric, 

 clothed with a more or less persistent grev tomentum ; pinnules 

 firmly coriaceous, about 50 pairs, at first densely tomentose, ulti- 

 mately sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous, o^'ate-lanccolate, 

 rather distinctly falcate, 4-5 in. long, |-1 in. wide, abruptly slightly 

 unequally rounded or wide-cuneate at the base, apex abruptly acute, 

 pungent, margin with 3-8 diverging teeth, mainly in the basal half, 

 on either side, Male cone not described ; sometimes, in examples 

 with elongated stems, the cones 8-10 on a single plant [Schwcinfurth). 

 Female cone or scales not seen {Sclnvcinfurth). Seeds ovoid, not 

 angled, about 1 in. long; outer coat not seen {Sclnvcinfurth).— 

 Schweinf. ex A. Br, in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol, 1874, 18 ; Kegel in 

 Gartenfl, xxv, 1876, 203, 205 ; Aschers. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 

 XX. (1878), XXXV. ; Eichler in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. i. 22 ; 

 Warburg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 173; De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then, 

 iv. 176, 184; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84; A. Cheval. Etudes Fl. 

 Cent. Afr. i. 379. E. sp., Schweinf. Heart of Africa, i. 448 ; Stuhl- 

 mann, Mit Emin Pascha, 397, possibly. Cijcadca, Schweinf. Heart of 

 Africa, ii. 374. 



North Central. Oubangui-Shari Territory : Mandjia ; near the confluence 

 of the Nana and the Gribins;ui Rivers, 1300 ft., Chevalier, 6303. Dar Banda : 

 near Ndelle, 1900 ft., Chevalier, 790H ; Boro Valley, 1700-2000 ft., Chevalier 

 7071. 



Nile Land. CIolo : Kredy Nduggo country ; between the Uyeeli and the 

 Uyissoba, east of the Beery (specimens with distinct cylindric stems), Schwein- 

 J wrth ; Dcm. Zwhaiv, 22(){) it., Boardman\ Niam-niam : Mambeli ; Gumango 

 Hill near the Rye, Schwcinfurth, 2952 ! on the Ibba (Tonj) River near Nganye, 

 Schwcinfurth, 3992 ! east of the upper Huuh, Schwcinfurth. Bongo : on the 

 I^ihssy River, at Abu Ssamat, Schwcinfurth ; near NgoU's village (seeds), 

 Schiveinfurth ! Uganda : Nile Province ; on a rocky hill near Agu, 60 miles 

 east of Dutila (photograph), Seth-Smith ! 



The Mwue Piah of the Niam-niam, the Kagga Kondo of the Bongo and the 

 Kotto of the Kredy Nduggo. Among the Niam-niam it is put to no economic 

 use ; the Kredy Nduggo prepare a kind of beer from the mealy central part of 

 the stem {Schwcinfurth). According to Schwcinfurth it is confined to savannah 

 forest and survives the annual grass-fires, sending up its fresh foliage in Feb- 

 ruary when these are over ; it does not extend northwards into the districts of 

 Jur or Mittu. It is possible that the Encephalartos recorded by Stuhlmann as 

 met with by Emin Pasha and himself in savannah forest on the Upper Duki, 

 a tributary of the Ituri immediately to the west of Lake Albert Nyanza, may be 

 this s[)ecies. The outer coat of the seed has not been seen, the firm inner coat 

 is pale pink. 



