1913] CHAMBERLAIN—MACROZAMIA MOOREI 145 
I saw eight large cones on a single plant (fig. 3). When I visited 
Springsure, late in November, the cones were not mature, but 
some of them were already 80 cm. in length and weighed 15 kilos. 
Dr. F. M. BatIzey, in his Flora of Queensland, reports cones go cm. 
in length. - Scarcely any of the cones were vertical, nearly all lean- 
ing and some of them almost horizontal (fig. 1). The numerous 
strong leaves prevent the cone from hanging down, as it does in 
Dioon spinulosum. 
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Fic. 4—M. Moorei with more than 50 staminate cones 
By far the most striking feature of Macrozamia Moorei is its 
Staminate cones and associated structures (fig. 4). Plants with 
20-40 staminate cones were not at all rare, and in one case I counted 
103 cones on a single unbranched plant. Not only is the number 
larger than has ever been reported for any cycad, but the cones are 
obviously lateral, as may be seen by a glance at the figure, which 
shows a girdle of cones outside the new crown and scattered among 
the leaves of the previous crown. Young cones of the next season 
are found among the bases of the leaves of the new crown, but there 
are no cones in the center of the crown. 
