38 CYCADACEA (Hutch. & Rattr.). [Hncephalartos. 
glabrous ; petiole with a marked yellow “collar” at the base 
male cones 1-3 on a stem, with no visible peduncle, about 2 ft. long 
and 6 in. in diam., brownish yellow ; scales much narrowed to and 
irregularly rhomboi the top, not p t; female cones rare, 
up to 60 Ibs. weight, sessile, broadly oblong-ellipsoid, up to 2 
long and 10 in with about 15 of s ales ; scales 
concave, flat or : teaked "deeply Tugose top; seeds about 2-23 in 
long, red. I in Tijdschr. Nat. Ge vi. 100, t. iii. (1839) 
horridus var eeshlenge ager Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. 3, x. 36 ly 
: . Wi ‘ : 
E. Van Hallii, Vriese in Tijdsc hr. Nat. Gesch. i v. 422, t. x. (18 3T- 8). 
E. horridus vars. Van Hallii and latifrons, Renae L.c. 117 (1932). 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: ante and Bathurst Divs., in open grass- 
veld ae on low rocky ridges. 
Vite e Div.: near Paarde Poort, MacOwan! Bathurst ee : Trapps 
Valley, is mber, 1000-1400 ae Ppt t 10-14 miles from the ii " Rattray, 
8439 ! (in 8. Afr. Mus. Herb., 1100!). Livin ing specimens at Kew 
According © Rattray the Sse persist for several hacia ~ occupy about 
18 in. of the upper part of the stem cones are ripe in January 
and the dried up male cones were then still presen 
For comparison with E. horridus see note iar that species. 
E. longifolius (Lehm. Pugill. vi. 14 (1834)); stem well- 
a . stout, about 12 ft. high or more, simple or rarely branched, 
the top dome- shap ed between the bud and the mature leaves ; 
leaves green, numerous in a 
14-2 ft. long and 6-8 in. in rile 
scales in very numerous spirals, lanceolate, acuminate with blunt 
hooked rt a8 ; female cones sessile, up to 90 Ibs. in weight, 2 ft. long, 
12-14 in. in diam. ; scales in less numerous spirals than in the male, 
rhomboid, umbonate, re rugose ; seeds red, broadly oblong, 
vars. revolutus Miq., angustifolius Miq., and Hookeri DC. 1.c. 
Schuster in Engl. Pflanzen. Cycad. iii. figs. 3A, 4G, 6A, 16 R-U 
(1932). Zamia longifolia, Jacq. Fragm. 38, t. 29 (1809); Pers. 
Sen il. 631; Spreng. Ms ihe = 908. Zami 
Fragm. t and 3 (1809). caffra, Thunb. in Nov. Act. Soe. 
Scient. Upsal. ii. 283, as to ist os ie only. Encephalartos caffer, 
