34 CYCADACEE (Hutch. & Rattr.). [Encephalartos. 
Linnea, xvii. 726; DC Prodr. site il. ie partly and excl. v 
Worsdell in Trans. Linn. Soc. Sit v. 449, 452 (1900) : 
Schuster in Engl. Pflanzenr. pana “116, with figs., excl. vars. 
Van Hallii and latifrons Schuster. Zamia hor rida, Jacq. Frag. 27, 
tt. 27 and 28 (1800). Encephalartos nanus, Lehm. Tijdschr. IV, 421, 
t. 8, fig. C. (1837-8). E. horridus var. nanus, Schuster l.c. 
GEOGRAPHICAL Rance: Addo Bush, in the Uitenhage Div. 
Uitenhage Div. : around Despatch, Rattray (S. Afr. Mus. Herb. 845! 1906 !). 
Cultivated at Pretoria, Nat. Herb., no. 8037! Living specimens at Kew ! 
As this species is liable to be “seonrtaagit with FE. latifrons Lehm., 
we give the following table of difference 
E. horridus. 
E. latifrons. 
No aerial stem Stem 8-10 ft. high 
Leav glaucous ot gl 
Leaflets rather na Leaflets distinctly broa 
Male and female cones small, Fe cone large, 
about | ft. ong, up to 60 Ibs. weight, the 
Habitat : Pherae scrub, i 
Habitat : Open grass veld. 
4. E. kosiensis (Hutch. in Kew Bull. 1932, 512) ; stemless or ‘eae 7 
so (stems at most a few inches h high—fide Aitken and Gale 
probably ce out 3 ft. lon hicks narrowly grooved on ae peas 
side, glabrous ; leaflets erobabts about 20 pairs, crowded and slightly 
overlapping, ob ong-elliptic, sessile with a very broad base, more 
or less rou n each side at the base, without a de finite a apex 
but vided into 3-5 broadly triangular pungent-pointed gree 
with usually about 2-4 smaller lateral teeth on each m 
ong, 14-2 in. broad, on Wi hte with about 25 rather faint pete i 
nerves ; cones not see 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: Coastal region of Zululand. 
Zululand : behind pag dune bush near Kosi Lake, East Ingwavuma distri 
ca & ale, 63; Kos y> Lugge in i Herb., 16507 ! erases 
Col. G G. Molyneux at the es Old Fort, ” Durban, July 1930 ! 
Further material and information about this species is much desired at Kew. 
5. 
high; persistent leaf-base y ovate, acuminate; leaves 
markedly glaucous, up to 3 f - long ; leaflets spaced. on the 7 
the es the largest, entire or lobate-dentate, very pun 
poin or linear-lanceolate, the middle ones up to 8 in ee 
= A in. neon (excluding the teeth), very obscurely or _ even 
y nerved, the teeth when present mostly on the lowe 
Lehmannii (Lehm. a vi. 14 (1834) ) ; stem up to 9 ft. 
broad] 
