drooping, giving the plant a graceful appearance and making it 
an object of decorative value. The leaves area deep rich green, 
from five to seven feet long and about two feet broad. The leaf- 
lets are somewhat curved, lanceolate, about one foot long and 
- not over three fourths of an inch wide; when young they have a 
* few spines on the margin, but as the leaves grow older these often 
become almost obsolete, so that the plant may be approached 
and examined without fear of injury. The leaf-stalks or petioles 
are densely covered with a woolly matting, diving the base of 
the crown a fuzzy aa it is from this character that the 
speciae name is derived 
he third species is represented by a relatively small plant 
which is located on the north side of the house. It was secured 
some years ago by exchange with the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England. At that time it was a small plant, but has recently 
started to grow and is just forming a crown of large leaves five 
io seven feet long. These have the stalks or petioles woolly, as 
n the species aired tie but this character is not so 
pronounced here. In bot and the preceding species the 
leaf-stalks or ae are a with stout spines which pass 
into the leaflets above, in Axcephalartos villosus rather abruptly, 
in the other gradually. The leaflets are somewhat curved, up to 
eight inches long and one and a quarter inches wide, with four to 
eight teeth on each margin. Judging from the character of the 
leaves alone, this plant seems to belong to Ancephalartos Hilde- 
brandtii, another species of tropical Africa. 
Besides the species already enumerated as forming part of the 
collection, the Garden desires to secure, either by gift or ex- 
change, any of the species not represented. Some of these are: 
Encephalartos Altensteinit ; E. Caffer, the species of — eco- 
nomic value to the natives inhabiting southern Africa ; £. cycadi- 
folius, also known under the name of E. Friderict- cae E. 
Ghellinckii ; E. lanuginosus; E. Lehmannt,; and &. clougatus , 
all from southern Africa. 
GEORGE V. Nasu. 
