354 CXTX. CTCADE^. 



in 2-valvcd cells, wliicli colierc by twos, threes, or fours. — Fe- 

 males either collected in cones or surrounding the central bud 

 in the form of contracted leaves or scales. Ovules exposed on 

 the margin of the scale or contracted leaf. Embryo in the 

 axis of fleshy or horny albumen ; radicle next the apex of the 

 seed. — Arborescent plants, resembling small Palms or Tree- 

 ferns, with cylindrical, simple or branched trunks, crowned 

 with many long, pinnatisect leaves. 



Stem cylindrical ; pinnae of the leaves without mid- 

 rib, finely many-nerved longitudinally .... 1. Encephalaetos. 



Stem turnip-like ; pinna? midribbed, with divergent, 



forked veins 2. Stangeeia. 



1. ENCEPHALARTOS, Lehm. 



Flowers in catkins. — Male : Catkins peduncled, terminal, 

 their scales rhomboid-peltate, with a narrow, thickened apex, 

 covered everyAvhere on the lower surface, with sessile, 1- 

 locular anthers. — Female : Cone with rhomboid-peltate scales, 

 dilated and thickened at the apex. Ovules in pairs, inverted. 

 Seed with a fleshy covering and a bony coat. — Endl. Gen. 

 n. 705. 



Trees, with cylindrical, simple trunks, rough with the bases of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves (or fi-onds) crowning the trunk, pinnatisect, the pinnae 

 broad-based, sessile, witliout obvious midrib, many-nerved, often spinous- 

 toothed above the middle. — There are several species, natives of the Eastern 

 district and the countries beyond. Colonial name " Kafir Bread." 



2. STANGERIA, T. Moore. 



Flowers in catkins. — Male : Catkins cylindrical, with rhom- 

 boid scales, bearing innumerable, 1-celled, subsessile anthers. 

 — Female : Cone ovoid or shortly cylindrical. Ovules in pairs, 

 inverted. — Hook.f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5121. 



A small, ligneous plant, with a short, swollen stem, scarcely scarred. 

 Leaves few, from the apex of the stem, pinnate, glabrous ; pinnae opposite, 

 in about 12 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, spinose-serrulate beyond 

 the middle, with a strong midrib, from which diverge to the margin, very 

 closely set, subparallel, forked veins. The petiole, scales at base of cones, 

 and the catkins densely woolly. — S. paradoxa^ Moore, found at Natal. 



