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minata, 24 ceiit. longa, 1 ccnt. paullo latiora, iiervls cir- 

 citer 10. Rhacheos pars superior letragoua, auticc in an- 

 gnlura uocfora clevata, foUolis basi band callosis, rectis 18 

 ccnt. longis, % lalis. 



111. Encephalartos Lehmann. Pugill pl. nov. VI. 3. 

 ejcch spec. Miq. Monogr. Cycad. 39. Tab. I et III. 

 Spadices mares dense in strobiliim imbricati, cuneiformcs, 

 apice sterili rccto angnstato vel rhomboideo -pelUito vcl co- 

 iiice elongato-pyramidato_, corpore anlherifero subtns undi- 

 qne anlheris dense tecto. Antlierae uuiloculares. Spadices 

 feminei majores in crassiorem connm collecti , e basi an- 

 gusta stipitata in pekam rhomboideam qnadrangnlarem pla- 

 niusculam terrainati, snbtus ntrinque e fovea ovarium nnicnm 

 proirudcnte, Ovarium iuversum, angnlatura. Drupa colo- 

 rala carnosa. TSux ovata, putamen crassum e plur bns 

 sograontis iuter sc coalitis. Embri/o clavatus, subrectns; 

 colyledones fere aeqiiales rectae coalitae; plamnlae foliolnm 

 anicuiQ lanceolatnra crassnra reclura basi snbanriculatmn dila- 

 tatnra, inter cotyledoniira basiu aullo lateraliter latitans, — 

 Ärbuscnlae crassis caudicibus insignes, in interioribus Pro- 

 montorii Bonae spei regiouibus calidioribus , ubi Flora 

 Cafferana a Capensi indole magis tropica diversa incipit, in 

 Amatymhoriim et TamhooTcorum terra, habitant, regiones 

 raontnosas-(ad 2000 pedniu altitndincm) plus quam planities 

 praeoplantes. Hi terrae tractns 1800 milliaria anglica ab 

 iirbe capensi distant. — Vix dnbiura videtur, plures adbnc 

 species in intorioribus calidisqne Africae aiistralis rogionibiis 

 irescero. An et in ins. Mascarhenis"^ 



Ärbuscnlae hiimiics longacvae (3 sacculorum), caudici- 

 bus crassis pro parte snb terra latentibns, abbreviatis, ovatis 



