32 CYCADACEE (Hutch. & Rattr.). [Hncephalartos. 
and 3-4 in. in diam. ; scales markedly peltate, irregularly 5 ee 
the top, the lower margin e or less irregularly toothed; seeds 
red, about in. long, nearly as broad as long, oblong-ellipsoid 
m. l.c. xv. t. 557 (1868); Bot. Mag. t. 6654 (1882); De Wild. 
Ic. Select. Hort. Thenen. iv. 173, pl. clx (1903) ; Marloth Fl. 8. Afr. 
i. 96, t.15, fi g. B; 6, fig. B. E. striatus, Stap t Davy in 
FI. Transv. i 99, fi ,C. Zamia villosa, Gaertn. Fruct. i * 3 (1788) ; 
Willd. in Mag. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin x. t. 6 Zamia 
aaa Jacq. Fragm. 27, partly, as to t. 25, female nga only 
(18 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: From the Keiskama River north- eastwards to 
The late Mr. W. Watson noted that he saw hundreds of this species growing 
in dense woods along the Buffalo River near East London 
East London Div.: wooded kloofs, East London, J. Wood in Herb. 
Galpin, sale Pier: East London, Smale, 23! Rattray, oe Nead’s Camp, 
3340! in dense shade of forest at Gonubi River mouth, 
Galpin, 7767 ‘4 "Reatant i in forests, male and female in May, Pegler, 342 ! 
i s near the Kei River mouth, Flanaga in 8. . Mus. Herb., 1374! 
n ; ! 
Delagoa Bay: “from Delagoa Bay,” growing in pale m Buildings Gardens, 
Pretoria 58 Wickins) ! Living specimens at Kew 
We have seen seedlings collected by Miss Pegler on 342) :—Seedling leaflets 
about 8 ‘pairs, aha oblanceolate, about 2 in. long and } in. broad, toothed 
mainly in the upper half; aerial roots well developed and much branched ; 
crown of seedling softly villous 
3. E. horridus (Lehm. Pugill. vi. 14 (1834) ); stem subterranean 
or very short, covered with rough leaf-bases, slightly villous ; leaves 
glaucous, numerous in a crown, mar edly recurved at the top, 
very pric okly, iP to about 2 ft. long ; petiole and rhachis gestern 
aye and 2 in aoa (in cluding the 1 bes), obscurely nerved, con- 
both ends ; a Bekker mens r 
across and j in. high, very slightly pubescent ; female ar shortly 
pedunculate, broadly oblong-ellipsoid, more or less triangular at 
the Poa about 1 ft. 3in. long and 64-8 in. bet scales i 
0 sp 
long. Mig. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. IT. x. 366 (1838) ; in Tijdschr. Nat 
Gesch. vi. 94, tt. 3 and 4 (1839); Monog. Cycad. 58 (1842), and in 
