28 cYCADACE# (Hutch. & Rattr.). | Ancephalartos. 
II. ENCEPHALARTOS, Lehm. 
Cones dicecious. Male cones pedunculate; scales densely 
imbricate in many series, spirally arranged, often narrowed at the 
apex ; pollen-cells very numerous on the lower side. Female cones 
sessile or shortly pedunculate, similar to the male but often larger 
and thicker, sometimes completely enveloped by woolly hairs ; 
scales more or less truncate at the top and often coarsely wrinkled, 
bearing 2 collateral inverted ovules foward the base. Seeds with 
a yellow or red fleshy outer coat. 
Stems underground or rising t ll trees, simple or slightly branched, 
sarwex. with scales and the scars S of fe fallen leaves; leaves spirally arrange ed 
afle to) 20 i ire 
or toot en pungent- -pointe d, withou ; nerves ee udinally 
parallel ; lower leaflets sometimes cudtatly rednaed to prickles 
Species about bs confined to the South-eastern regions of South Africa, and 
in Tropical Afri 
Stemless or nearly so 
—- — indy a few teeth only near the Epes rh 
wded, the lower ones ~_— ed i 
ea ind “Tike prickles, never glau ... (1) caffer. 
Leaflets toothed or agents = (rarely a few 
leaflets on each leaf entire) : 
Leaflets with a definite ter nee pungent apex o 
lobe distinct from the lateral teeth, linear ian 
toothed or broader and coarsely dentate- 
lobate : 
Lower leaflets gradually reduced to numerous 
prickles, the remainder often 2-3-dentate at 
the apex, broadly linear, with small — 
teeth ; leaflets spreading in one plane 
e rhachis, not eee rhachis i wooly 
ie young (see . (2) villosus. 
Lower — not reduced to prickles, nearly 
all ans pe oye 
Leaflets divided at the a into 3-5 short very 
br triangular , without a definitely 
longer terminal lo “9 oblong-¢ — with 
numerous parallel nerves (see fig. 5) .. --» (4) kosiensis. 
Stems ol onl — several feet high, branched or 
* taaneacts mec or lobate-toothed (or if entire then 
broadly 
very glaucous or linear), linear-oblo: 
to ovate-lanceolate ; not very i 
pads red : 
