30 cYCADACE& (Hutch. & Rattr.). [Hncephalartos. 
long and 4 in. in diam. ; scales in icy spirals, broadly transversely 
subrhomboid-elliptic, concave, green, with orange margins, nearly 
ress oe t 14 in. broad ; earls broadly oblong, red, about 
1} in Mig. setae et ae 53, partly lapels Prodr. 
y 
fate ae ses = pss Zamia caffra, Thunb. Prodr. Fi. 
Cap. ii. 92 (1800); Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 429, partly (1823). Zama 
Cycadis, Linn. f. Suppl. 443 (1781). Ene ephalarios brachyphyllus, 
Lehm. Cat. Hort. Hamb. 1836, ex Lehm. & De Vriese Tijdschr. 
Nat. Gesch. iv. 414, t. vi. and vil. (1 ate E. caffer var. brachy- 
phyllus, A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 532 (1868). 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: Uitenhage, oe East London, southern part of 
King Williamstown and northwards to Zululan 
Uitenhage Div. : Tredgold, no. 2 (Herb. Brit. Mus.) ! Van Staadens, Rattray, 
1098 ! between Hoffmannskloof and fe Cok, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 8254! 
er int 
Ken Div.: outside forest, rare, Sept., Pegler, 1124! Feb., Pegler, 
at ” Tealabiesd + near Ngoye, Rattray, D738 without locality, Oldenburg, 
1497 
CULTIVATED Specimens : Municipal Gardens, Cape Town, Herb. 8S. Afr. Mus., 
pga ni soe Durban (from Zululand), 16040! Bot. Gard. Grahamstown, 
cnaes. to Wylie this species is common in some parts of Zululand, where 
it grows almost socially ; the seeds are much sought a. es ee 
ad there to “ = — arene ae oe pualitete distrib 
at stemless 
oe which he a and brie is + teat above ae the true EH. caffer, 
and another with a well-developed stem, H. longifolius 
2. E. villosus (Lem. Illustr. Hort. xiv. Miscell. 79 (1867) ) ; stem 
subterranean, aged densely woolly-villous ; — —— green, 
usuall a crown, slightly arcuate, up to 9 ft. or more long ; 
poe, aed and leaflets densely w sroatby-<illoas en young, 
becoming glabrous or nearly so; leaflets numerous, the lower 
ually and ee reduced to prickles, the middle and 
ascending teeth and peste 2-3-dentate at the apex, up to 8 in. long 
Zin. broad, the broadest about 25-nerved, nerves slightly 
prominent below ; male cones yellowish, conspicuously pedunculate, 
slender, cylindric, slightly tapering to the top, about 2 ft. long 
