1907] CALDWELL & BAKER—MICROCYCAS CALOCOMA 335 
densely tomentose (except on lower half of inner face) with long gray 
hairs: staminate cone 25-30°™ long, 5—8°™ in diameter, cylindrical, on 
a short densely tomentose peduncle; sporophyll 2-2.5°™ long, 1. 5—2°™ 
wide, the basal two-thirds of the abaxial surface densely covered by 
sporangia, the apical third gray-tomentose and prominently ridged 
along the median line, obtusely pointed: ovulate cone 50-70°™ long, 
13-16°™ in diameter, cylindrical, slightly tapering from base to tip, 
obtusely pointed, on a short densely tomentose peduncle which together 
with the base of the cone is covered by densely tomentose scales 
6-10°™ long; sporophyll 4.5-5.5°™ long, 3-4°™ wide, 2-3°™ thick, 
with stalk 3-3.5°™ long and perpendicular to the axis of the cone, 
the outer portion quite convex, usually four-ridged, the apex blunt, 
sub-quadrangular, and sometimes furrowed, the entire outer portion 
of the sporophyll covered by a dense mass of closely appressed 
grayish hairs; ovules two, pink, 3.25-3.5°™ long, 1.25-1.75°™ thick 
(figs. I-3). 
STATE NorMAL SCHOOL, CHARLESTON, ILL. 
Esraci6n AGRONOMICA, SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, CUBA 
