Encephalartos.] cxxx. cycadace^ (Praiii). 851 



4. E. Hildebrandtii, A. Br. & Bouche, Ind. Scm. Hoii. Bcrol. 

 1874, 8. Stern usually well developed, cylindric, casually branched, 

 up to 20 ft. high, 1 ft. in diani., occasionally short or very short, 

 closely covered with alternating scales and persistent imbricating 

 leaf-bases sparingly clothed with grey cottony tomentum. Leaves 

 8-9 ft. long, 12 in. wide above the middle, dark green ; petiole and 

 rhachis subcylindric, clothed at first with deciduous grey tomentum, 

 soon quite glabrous ; ])innules firmly coriaceous, 50-70 pairs, linear- 

 lanceolate, very slightly falcate, 9 in. long, §-1 in. wide, somewhat 

 unequally attenuated to the narrow base, apex acute, ])ungent, 

 margin with 1-4, usually 2-3, diverging teeth on either side, the 

 uppermost teeth generally some distance from the tip but not in- 

 frequently high up and the tip then 3-spinescent — in young plants 

 casually 4-5-spinescent. Male cone peduncled, sometimes up to 

 7 in one crown, greenish or dull-red, ovate to narrow-cylindric, 8-18 

 in. long, 2-J-4 in. wide ; peduncles 3-^ in. long, tomentose : scales 

 spreading, obovate-deltoid, fertile portion f in. long, rather longer 

 than broad, apex rhomboid, j-f in. across, the lateral angles acute, 

 the upper very obtuse, ridged and faintly faceted, not umbonate. 

 Female cone subsessile, green, at length becoming dull yellow, sub- 

 cylindric, up to 2 ft. long, 7 in. wide ; apex of scales wide-rhomboid, 

 2 in. across, 1 in. deep, lateral angles explanate, upper and lower 

 very obtuse, umbonate near the lower angle. .Seeds ellipsoid or ovoid, 

 faintly angled, IJ in. long ; outer coat vermilion. — A. Br. in Sitz- 

 ungsb.Gesellsch.Naturf. Freunde, Berl. 1876, 117, and in Monatsbcr. 

 Akad. Berl. 1876, 859; Kegel m Gartenfl. xxv. 1876, 203, 204, and 

 xxvi. 1877, 215 with fig. ; Aschers. in Verb. Bot. Ver. Brand, xx. 

 (1878), XXXV. ; Mast, in Gard. Chron. 1878, ix. 430 ; Hildebrandt in 

 Zeitschr. Gesellsch. fiir Erdkunde, xiv. (1879), 264 ; Carrierc in 

 Rev. Hort. 1880, 456, fig. 93 {Hildchmndi) ; Eichler in Monatsschr. 

 Berl. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 1880, 50, t. 1, and in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Ptlanzeufam. ii. i. 22, fig. 14 A, B ; Hennings in Gartenfl. 1890, 234, 

 tig. 55, 1 and 4, 4a-5 ; Stuhlmann, Mit Emin Pascha, 824 ; Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 35, 78, C. 92 ; Warburg in Engl. I.e. B. 173 ; Masl. 

 in Gard. Chron. 19(X), xxvii. 120, with suppl. fig. ; Wcrth, Veg. 

 Insel Sansibar, 49 ; De Wilde, Rev. Hort. Belg. 1903,'l96, hg. 29 ; 

 De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. iv. 181 ; Stapf in Kew Bulletin. 1914, 

 386, and in Bot. Mag. tt. 8592, 8593. E. rillosus, var. Hildcbram/di, 

 Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 84. E. villosus, forma Hildebrandtii, Hen- 

 nings, I.e. 238. Zamia Hildebrandi, Hort. ex Carricre, I.e. Hgs. 94, 95. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Sovidioh ; hills in-ai- .Mombasa, Kirlr I 

 Hildebrandt [ hills near Shanganiui, Hildebrandt; Rabai Hills, at .Mlima, 

 Taylor ! old lake-bed below Kaya-Bomu, Taylor ! Samburu, Poiccll ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: U.sainbara ; Tatiira, in the coast 

 belt, Kirk ! Siinbili, at the ba.se of the Usambara Hills, liolst, 2.'i7l ! upfMT 

 Boinbo \'aUev, 2700 ft., in .savannah fore.st, Kn(jl<r. rsc^uha; Hapainoyo, 

 in the coast Ix'it, Kirk 1 Kosako, 17 miles west of Baganmyo, in sa\annali- 

 forust, Stuhlmann. Usaramo ; Dar-CH-Salaaai, in thu cuuat belt. Kirk ! Island of 



