, 
Stangeria. | CYCADACE# (Hutch. & Rattr.). 25 
peltate, bearing 2 orthotropous inverted ovules on the lower side 
(or in Cycas veral and erect in the sinuses of the segments of the 
r 
2; radicle superior, attached by the nae ‘eee suspensor. 
Stem subterranean or above ground and attaining —_ tree-form, simple 
or sparingly branched, with a terminal tuft of leaves. Leaves spirally arranged, 
the spirals alternating with ide = short coriaceous prophy: vila ary scales ; blade 
esis usually to the midrib into separate aoe; the latter with or withoat 
a midrib, longit er ahs or Sarde (Stangeria) pinnately nerved and the 
fateral nerves for 
Species about 80, in the tropics, subtropics, and temperate regions, mainl 
of the Southern Hemisphere e - Gi : 3 
e are much indebted to the Director of the Botanical Survey 
of South Africa for the loan of specimens from the Pretoria and 
Durban herbaria, and for aiceapaphs of plants in their native 
ed in the Tran ara ; also to the Directors of the Cape Town 
Albany Muse 
ae interesting solleoiien of living South African Cycads has been 
brought together by Colonel Mo ne in the Old Fort garden in 
ban, which the junior author had the pleasure of visitin aR in 
August, 1930. Many plants are eae grown around the Uni 
Buildings at Pretoria, at the National Botanic Gardens, Kinten: 
bosch, near Cape Town, and in the Municipal Gardens , Cape own. 
The io of the species are also in cultivation in the Palm 
ouse at Kew 
I. Stangeria —Leaflets =e a prominent midrib and spreading f 
lateral nerves, the upper esol a at the base and Seousrent 
on the rhachis; aerial stem abse 
II. Encephalartos.—Leaflets without a distinct midrib, the nerves sees 
with the mar, _ leaflets never connate at the base; aerial s 
present or absent 
I. STANGERIA, T. Moore. 
Cones dicecious. Male cones cylindric, slender; scales densely 
imbricate in many series, spirally arra nged ; pollen-cells raat Ss 
pollen ellipsoid. Female cones ovoid-ellipsoid, ore than t 
male, shortly pedunculate, densely tomentose ; cape deltoid 
ded, he a pair 
of inverted ovules. Seeds broadly ellipsoid, with a dark red fleshy 
coat. 
