36 CYCADACE# (Hutch. & Rattr.). [Hncephalartos. 
and near the middle or towards the top; male cones subsessile, 
okey a iter oe = . length yellow, apa! 9 in. long 
in umerous, wit mall sub- 
ateaias or ietioialsr early Saiineeptibessant are female 
cones sessile, short, broadly — about 1} ft. long and 
t. in diam. ; scales at length ruddy brown, with a broadly ovate- 
acuminate limb and small truncate ance top; seeds red, about 
24 in. long, including the aril. Otto and Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit. 
1836, 217, t. 1; Miq. Monogr. Cycad. we Regel “Gartenfl., 1865, 
197, t. 477 (6); DC. Prodr. xvi. ij. 531, incl. var. spinulosus Miq. ; 
Schuster in Engl. Pflanzenr. Cycadac. 113, eth figs. (1932). Zama 
ae Keck. and Zeyh. ex Otto and Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit. 
1833, n , p. 158, name only. Z. spinulosa, Heynh. Nom. i 
(1840). °F. To Heynh. Nom. i. 862 (1840). Z. occidentalis 
Lodd. Cat. 177 ex Mig. in Linnea xvii. 711 (1843). Encepha- 
lartos ssiuloaily Lehm. in i ange Nat. Gesch. iv. 420, t. viii. 
fig. B (1838). ji 
Gi : ; ). 
mauritianus, Miq. Monogr. Cycad. 48 (1842). EF. pungens, Lehm. 
ugill vi. 13; Mig. in Linnea xix. t. 4 Y 847). EF. Lehmanni var. 
spinulosus, Miq. in Linnea xix. 420 (1847); var. dentatus Regel. 
E. horridus var. trispinosa, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5371 (1863). 
a Rance: In semi-karoid places from Willowmore Div. 
to Grahamstown, and in Bedford, Queenstown, Komgha, and on the Tsoma 
River in the Nqamaqwe district "(Native States). 
Willowmore Div.: Groote River, toe Albany Div.: northern slopes of 
pin, 
Bothasberg, near Grahamstown, Ga 3083! Penrock Farm, 10-12 miles 
from G town, in karoid scrub, 1 ft., Dyer, 1184 t Div. : 
mouth of the Kowie River, 250 ft., Macowan, 9! So Div. : Bruntjes 
( ard. Cape Town)! Queenstown = rm, Rattr ie 
5 
id 
White Kei, 2300-2600 ft., amongst dolerite rocks, Delian. 8090 ! a - 
Galpin, 2708 ! Komgha Div. : germs rocky s “6 “4 near Komgha, 2000 ft. 
Flanagan, 1373! Tsoma Div. : near Tsoma, Sim, 26! 
mY Shield Specimens: Nat. Herb. Pretoria, no. 8039 ! Living specimens 
Mr. Galpin and Dr. Rattray note that this species grows in fair numbers 
on steep hillsides a mongst doleritic rocks along the Twaxt Kei River about 
5 miles above its junction with the White Kei, often by suckering and seedlings 
forming pose ag of 8-10 plants together. Associated with it was E. cycadifolius. 
towards the top; leaflets up to about 33 pairs, the middle ones 
the largest, sh ge aa ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 5 in. long 
nd 2in. broad, wide at the » coarsely lobate-dentate on the 
lower —: a and lobes pungent-pointed, very prominently 
nerved, the nerves numerous, pubescent below, at length nearly 
