Encephalartos.| CcYCADACEa (Hutch. & Rattr.). 39 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4903, not of Lehm. (1859) ; Rev. Hort. 1869, 
233, fig. 56. E. lanuginosus, Lehm. Pugill. vi. 14 (1834). HE. Alten- 
steinit, Gard. Chron. Ser. iii. xl, 206, fig. 84 (1906), not of Lehm 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: From oe Bosch in Humansdorp Div. to Van 
hea rhs Z oo in open veld. 
nsdor .: Assegai aks Thunberg ; without locality, Oldenburg 
1497 (in Herb. Brit. Mus.) ' — ed cultivated specimens from various collec- 
ions! Living specimens at 
Distinguishing features of ih species, which was confused by Thunberg 
with the stemless #. caffer, and figured as such in the Botanical Magazine 
(tab. 4903), are the curled Siok: like tops of the leaves, the leaflets forming a 
rather wide V; they are often quite entire. 
The pith is used in making Kaffir bread. 
. E. Altensteinii (Lehm. Pugill. vi. 11, t. 4, 5 (1834) ); stem 
ae to about 16 ft. high and about 2 ft. in circumference ; young 
stem ovoid, woolly; leaves green, numerous in crown, nearly 
straight, up to 5 ft. long ; rhachis soon glabrous ; leaflets spreading 
cylindric, slightly tapered to the base, about 12-15 in. 
s beaked-acuminate, with a recurved flatti sh top ; 
dly 
co solitary, sessile yellowish brown, broa 
oblong-ellipsoid, about 1} ft. long and 9 in. in dia ually with 
out 15 spirals of scales, up to about 40 lbs. in weight; scales 
rhomboid-umbonate with a truncate concave top, very rugose ; 
seeds = oblong, about 2 in. long. Hort. e Journ. Jard. and 
Amat 167, pl. ix (1837); Mig. Monogr. seg 51, incl. vars. 
pinisdenttus and angustifolins Mig. l.c. (1842); Mig. in Linnea 
xix. 420, t. rodr. Cyead. 10 (1861); DC. Prodr. 
xvi. ii. 532, incl. var. eriocephalus Vriese Descr. Pl. Nouv. Jard. 
Leyd. t. 2; Gard. Chron. vi. 392-97, figs. 80-83 (1876) ; ser. 3, 11. 
281 (1887) ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. tt. 7 162- 3 (1891) ; Schuster i in Engl. 
Pflanzenr. Cycadac. 112, with figs. (1932). #. Marumii, Vriese 
Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. v. 188 (1838). #. Vromit, Malte Recherch. 
mia spinosa, Lodd. ex DG. l.c., name only. Z. spinulosa 
aay Z. ic ataeiesa, Hort. ex Miq. Monoer. Creat 51 (1842). 
GrooRAPHICAL RANGE: River valleys from the = River, Bathurst 
to Natal and the Eastern Transvaal, ascending to 3500 ft. alt. in ett 
Bathurst Div.: Bat nsocmg Rattray in Herb. S. Afr. Mus. 1099! King 
Williamstown, Sim in Herb. S. Afr. Mus. 847! East London Div.: Nahoon R., 
E. London, photo. . by Pearson in Herb erb. Galpi in Kast London Park, J. Wood 
