KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 3 
Fiji, New Caledonia and nein bnoanins islands, it is undesirable to 
add new names to the genus, as they may represent only unim- 
portant geographical fpalineatiin. 
ExpLanations or Puates. 
Tas. 330.—Cycas Seemanni A. Br. Representing the general aspect of the 
plant, the male and the fe on fruiting heads, with a single spadix, all somewhat 
reduced in size from photo 
AB. 331.—Cycas Falvenisnk. from specimen in the British Museum. 
AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUBL 
By tHe Rey. W. Moye Rogers, F.L.S. 
{Continued from vol. xxx.,.p. 341.) 
Grove 8. Betuarprant (= Guanputost Focke).—St. mostly 
prostrate and roundish, rooting, often Sincatts All the stems densely 
clothed with stalked glands, bristles, acicles and prickles of various 
pre 
sizes. Prickles more frequently weak than in the Rapuuz and the 
Korsterianr; often subulate. Pan. racemose or with racemose 
lateral branches at the base. All the lts. distinctly stalked. Stipules 
filiform. Stam. rather frequently falling short of the styles, or 
barely caliailiag fats 
Usually rather small low-growing plants. 
A. Stalked glands very unequal; some of those on the pan. 
longer than the diameter of the ped.:—(74) viridis; (75) Duro- 
trigunn; (76) divexiramus ; (77 pork lus ; eal Bellardi ; (79) serpens ; 
nas hirtus and vars. All nearly allied pla 
. Stalked glands short; those on the pan. hidden in the dense 
oa or felt (*‘ sunken ’’), or at least shorter than the diameter of 
the ped. :—-(81) te) arragits es ? oigoclados aud vars. 
74. R. virmis Kalt. J Bot. 1890, pp.. 134, 166. R. in- 
eultus Wirtg. Syn. Bh, p.- "369. —St., petioles, pe “1 alee 3 and 
te see ate; term, roundish or bro - ovate-cuspidate or 
plliptio-scuminate from a slightly emarginate base, often with 1 or 2 
lobate dentitions above the middle (usually on one side only). 
Pan. usually rather long and lax, pyramidal, with straight rachis and 
numerous nearly patent few-flowered branches, de <i like the st. 
except in having still slenderer aciculate pric Sep. attenuate- 
acuminate, purple with stalked glands, itis 64 Pet. very long 
and narrow, pointed and cun pork white or slightly pinkish. 
Stam. white (or reddening ‘we, usually far surpass:ng the styles. 
In several counties (N, & 3,). 
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