g ON CYCAS TAIWANIANA AND C. SEEMANNI A. Br. 
acquired by the British Museum, there is part of a leaf and three 
foliar — of a Cycas from the Island of Formosa. It belongs 
of C. reroluta, though the barren lamina approaches 
the srecies sof the ei group. It may be thus described :— 
s Taiwaniana, sp. noy.—Leaf with numerous erecto- 
patent subopposite segments springing from a terete rachis ; petiole 
unknown ; segments flat, linear-lanceolate (5 to 7 in. long, rather 
more than + in. broad), decreasing below to a base about oa the 
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unkno emale spadices nearly glabrous, long, with slender 
sania fruit (8 or 4) borne above the middle; lamina nearly as 
broad as long, deeply any on both sides into linear comicets 
spines of the same substance as the lamina; terminal spine some- 
what vig broad and serrate. 
The specific name-is from Tai-wan, the native name of 
Formosa. "We more definite information is contained on the label 
than that the specimens were collected in the island of Formosa by 
r. Swinhoe, and sent to Dr. Hance in the autumn of 1867, from 
whose herbarium, as I have said, came the specimen in the British 
Museum on which the species is found 
n the Flora Vitiensis Dr. Seemann described a Ci ycas which he 
found i in the Fiji Islands, and referred to (. circina/is L. A. Braun 
subsequently peop out geome by which he separated it from 
C. cireinalis L. and name » Seenanni. Baron von Mueller has 
described the plant at Teng. “Dr. Masters having lately given the 
tore Departm a series of photographs “of the plant, it 
med to the Editor desirable to give an illustration of this fine 
Ohad; discovered by and named after the founder of this Journal. 
It has a stem thirty at high. In the specimen figured from the 
ch. e stem is marke by alternate constrictions and 
enlargements, caused by the idtenistios of the fruiting spadices and 
the normal leaves. The scars left by the spadices are smaller, 
preading and 
urved; they gradually decrease from a little above the podiutibked 
base, and end in a long acuminate apex. The male cone is two 
feet. long, and. the scales have a short, acute, sobondiins apex on the 
upper part of thecone. The female spadix bears from. six to eight 
» Subtriangular apex, with small spines along 
id a@ terminal one scarcely larger than the 
others. It was found in Viti-Levu and Ovalan ws Dr. Seemann. 
In the Museum Herbarium there are specimens of a Cycad from 
8 Tonga Islands, collected by Banks and Sohainler in Capt. Cook’s 
segments of the leaves, on the presence of a large terminal spine 
on the i but until more materials are abtahied from the Tonga, 
