Encephalartos.| | CYCADACEA (Hutch. & Rattr.). 43 
Queenstown Div. : age t rocks on mountain tops around Queenstown, 
4000-4500 ft., Galpin, 1525 ! fossa of Mbumbu A a Queenstown 
ft. Pearso on (photo.) ! hese Menge Queensto 4000 5 25 ay in 
Herb. Galpin, 8411! King Willia wn Div. : near King Williamstown, Sim 
in S. Afr. Mus. Herb., 1347! solo district (fide Rattra 
Our a inags of this a dates from stag iene (Progmenta Botanica, 
p- 27) in 1800. Unfortunately he pct eeng he speci He described pe 
figured at t. 26 a leaf of i meh ich has rade ways te en amt ‘side 
re cycadifolius or E, Friderict- Buiticlmi. But the female cone shown 
n t. 25 is probably that of EF. villosus aoe te species not recognised and 
described until pid this female cone is quite glabrous and the seeds are 
red, whereas in H. cycadi, sec ba female cone is a densely and permanently 
woolly, and the seeds are yelloy 
E. lanatus (Stapf & Burtt Davy in Burtt Davy Flora 
nant 40, 99, fig. 4 D (1926) ) ; stems several feet high, simple ; 
4 i d, gla and pilose shoes, soon Be with 12-14 
pr t a uous nerves below, margins very thick and 
callus-like, at first ciliate with woolly hairs; male cones shortly 
ea 
long and 2 in. in diam., with about 12 spirals of scales; scales 
narrowly rhomboid at the top and densely woolly-tomentose, about 
3 female cones shortly pedunculate, cylindric, abruptl 
2 in. across ; female 8 y pe y ptly 
narrowed at each end, about 7 in. long and 3 in. in diam., with 
; c 
towards the margin which swells and forms a thick glabrous callus ; 
seeds broadly ellipsoid, about 1 in. long, probably yellow. &. 
levifolius, Stapf & B. Davy Le. fig. 4 e (1926). 
GeoGRAPHICAL RANGE: Eastern Transvaal, from cearsagoee:f ae the 
Godwan River area to berton district, at 3000-5000 ft. altit 
Transvaal: Middelburg district ; Mooi Kopje, Pole Evan nay de Herb., 
11497 ! Middelburg, ” erwe in Nat. Herb., 8041! Toe vlugty near Middelburg 
Town lands, Weeber in Colon. Herb., 647 1! Lydenburg district ; Crocodile 
1b. ). 
River, near Piet Schoeman, Apr. , Wilms, 1355! (H we I rit.) 
B n dis ; Godwan Rive t Thorneroft in Herb. Rogers, 
cola satel 23689 ! Moodies, near Barberton, T'odd in Natal Herb 
rt igs ! 
Edge of Black Reef quartzite escarpment, 1 mile from Berlin Forestry Station, 
up to 10 ft., Welling freely, Van Nouhuys in Nat. Herb. Pretoria, 10086 ! 
villous, with one obscure rib above and below ; leaflets numerous, 
widely spreading, subacicular, with strongly recurv: margins, 
abruptly very pungent-pointed, the middle ones the longest and 
