554 GNETACE^ CYCADACE^. 



2. scandens, Roxb. {/I. ind. 3, p. 518; — J. Grah, Cat. B. pL p. 188. — 

 Gnemon funicularis, Rumph. 5, t. 7, 8. — Thoa edulis, Willd. sp. 4, 

 p. 477; — Rheed. 7,'t. 22.) L. ^ '^ Moluccas. Malabar. Lanowlee 

 grove, near Kandalla. Ravines at Parr. Both Concans. Chittagong. 

 Khassya Mountains. Assam. Fl. small, greenish. In H. C. G. fl. 

 March and April; fr. Sept. and Oct. {Rospb.) 



* Gnetum urens. b Guiana. 



ORDER CCXXI.—CYCADACEtE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 313. 



" Trees, with a simple cylindrical trunk, increasing by the development 

 of a single terminal bud, and covered by the scaly bases of the leaves," 

 (Lindl.) referred by the latter to 4 genera. Of these, Spreng. syst, enume- 

 rates 9 for S. America and the W. Indies ; 1 for Florida, also found in the 

 W. Indies ; 1 for China and Japan ; and 3 for New^ Holland. — In S. Africa 

 have been discovered 12 species, (Harvey) ^ and in the E. Indies 2 forms of 

 Cycas. — Lindl. adds, that, according to R. Brown, species have also been 

 found in Madagascar. 



The only remarkable quality in the order is the production of a kind 

 of Sago, by the soft centre of Cycas circinalis. They all abound in a 

 mucilaginous nauseous juice. (Lindl.) 

 Zamia, L. (Spreng. syst. S, p. 895, No. 3199; — End/, gen. pi. l,p. 71.) 



1. longifolia, Jacq. (Fragm. 1, p. 28, t. 29; — Spreng. syst. 3, p. 908.) 

 5 C. G. H. Has been cultivated in the garden here for many years, 

 without flowering. 



2. horrida, Jacq. (Fragm. 1, p. 27, t. 27, 28; — Spreng. I. c; — J. Grah. 

 Cat. B. pi. p. 198.) 5 C. G. H. Like the preceding species, it has 

 not fl. here. 



Cycas, L. (Spreng. syst. 3, p. 895, No, 3198; — Endl. gen, pi, l,p. 71.) 

 1. circinalis, L. (Spreng. syst. 3, p. 907; — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 744; — 

 B. M. 55, t. 2826-7;— J. Grah. Cat. p. 198. — C. inermis, Lour.; 

 Spreng. I. c. ;— Rheed. 3, t. 13, 21 ;— Rumph. 1, ^ 22 and 23.) b Mo- 

 luccas. China. Cochin-China. Fl. May ; fr. Dec. and January. In 

 gardens and plantations towards the sea- coast of the Southern pro- 

 vinces of Malabar, this plant is very common ; it grows spontane- 

 ously from the nuts that accidentally fall. The nuts are collected, 

 and having been dried for a month in the sun, are beaten in a mortar, 

 and the kernels formed into a flour. This is reckoned superior to 

 the flour obtained from the stem of the Caryota urens, L. ; but is 

 only used by the poor, who between the 1 4th of July and 13th of 

 Sept. are in danger of perishing. It is prepared during the former 

 month, and cannot be jjreserved longer than the end of the latter. 



