502 '  CYCADES. [ Cyeas. 
stalk, distant, alternate or opposite, more or less immersed and 
almost erect.—Small trees, with simple or rarely branched trunk or 
stemless. Leaves pinnatisect or pinnate, the segments 1-nerved, 
the lower pinnules often reduced to spines on the petiole. Male 
cones large, shortly stalked, cylindrically oblong or ovoid. 
* Fruits densely tomentose : ; . C. revoluta. 
* Fruits, at least when ripe, glabrous. 
© Trunk 6-30 ft. high, epigeous ; ovules from 2-5 on 
each side of the frond-stalk. 
Female spadices with a pectinate-toothed sterile lamina tapering 
in a pectinate-serrate acumen : : ‘ ‘ 5 : 
Female spadices with a sparingly toothed or almost entire sterile 
ami e acumen quite entire . ‘ ; x = : 
Female spadices with a very broad, deeply pectinate, lacerate, sterile 
lamina, the acumen entire. 3 : a s : . C. pectinata. 
OO Trunk subterranean or shortly protruding from the 
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C. circinalis. 
C. Rumphii. 
Female spadices with a very broad, deeply pectinate, lacerate, sterile 
lamina, acumen broad and as long as the lamina itself, q 
with a few spiny serratures . ee : : . . C. Siamensis. 
1. C. Rumphii, Mig.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 227 _—Nong-tain.— 
An evergreen palm-like tree (20—25 +8—10+3—4), with a thick 
ort, thick, linearly-scaled peduncle, the flower- 
scales about 1} in. long, obovate-cuneate, with the lateral ai 
densely tawny-villous, those of the outer rows up to a foot long oT 
somewhat longer, becoming shorter towards the centre, the blade 
from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, very little toothed or lobed — 
bn . . . * : 0 es 
yellow. 
_ Haz.—Frequent in the beach forests of the sea-coast of South Tenasserim 
and the Andamans.—Fl. C.S.; Fr. H.S.—l.—SS.—Aren. 
_ Remarks.—Wood coarse, medullary-fibrous. The wood yields a en ne 
tity of sago or starch, the seeds are in Ceylon made into flour. Exudes ® & 
sort of resin, which is applied to malignant ulcers, and which excites suppuratio? 
in an incredibly short time. 
