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Okdkk LXXIII. CYCADEACI 



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0m, .' 6)9. -. 1- 1817 . R. Brovn in King't I ■■ 

 Ad. Bronffniart in Ann. cUi Sc 16. 

 — Cycadeaeeae, Ed. prior, (1836 . EVuW Cm. xxxviH. 



Diagnosis. — Gynmogens with a simpU 



atUherifi 



Small 'i'' Be or shrubs, Bomi tin] bling Palm trees in their i 



are either simple and cylindrical, or spheroidal, or dichotonmuslj branched, and in *!l 



cases strongly marked with 

 ill" In/., nge-shaped scars of 

 broad woody leaf-stall 



Internally tin- stem < sists 



of :i mass "1 pith, tra> 

 by woody bundles, and run 

 of woody matter, 1 1 metimes 

 irregularly i\t>\ 

 times collected into regular 



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and num< 

 circle -. alwaj 



i i n. 



simple veins, and are placed somewhat obliquelj on their i 



disarticulate. (Miquel iv._Mr.l- these leai I branch, ' 



le.) Flowers | . perfectly destitute of all trace of calj » 



terminal cones, wmsistmg ol scales covered over their low 



one-celled, often collected in twos and threes, and split 1 ' 



i . « I.I.— Cycas circinalis ; 1. a portion of a female fh 

 fruit : 4 embryo 

 lie CLII, Li aw - of Zamias 



