Cycas. | CYCADER. 503 
2. C. pectinata, Griff —An evergreen simple-stemmed palm-like 
tree about 8-10 feet high, all parts glabrous ; leaves pinnate, 4-5 ft. 
long, glabrous, the segments narrow-linear, 7-8 in. long, acuminate, 
1-nerved,the margins rather revolute, the lowest ones along the petiole 
reduced to short straight spines; male cones ovoid, the male 
scales cuneate with a broad 3-angular apex abruptly produced into 
a subulate tomentose acumen about an inch long, glabrous, except 
outside on the apex, 14-2 in. long ; female spadices crowded on the 
top of the trunk, very densely tawny-villous, 4-5 in. long, the 
stalk short and broad, bearing about 3 glabrous ovules on each 
side, the blade large and much longer than the stalk, almost orbi- 
cular, and terminated in a strong subulate almost entire acumen of 
about an inch in length, all round cut into strong, subulate-acumi- 
nate, pectinate, spiny teeth of }-% in. length ; fruits ovoid, the size 
of a goose-egg, smooth and glabrous, orange-red or yellow. 
Has.—In the hill Eng and pine forests of Martaban and Tenasserim; also — 
Chittagong (?)—1.—SS.=Metam. Lat. 
3. C. Siamensis, Miq.—An evergreen, low, stemless, palm-like 
tree, the trunk cylindrically oblong, up to 23 or 3 ft. long by 2-3 ft. 
scale itself, cuneate with a triangular apex ; female spadices terminal, 
crowded, shortly stalked, the stalk tawny-villous, only 2-3 in. long, 
those of the inner rows shorter to almost sessile, the sterile blade 
triangular-ovate to obovate-oblong, broad, while young beneath 
wholly rusty- or tawny-villous, soon turning glabrous on the upper 
half, long and broadly acuminate and deeply pectinate-lacerate, the 
acumen about 2 in. long, cut into several spiny teeth, the pecti- 
nate marginal teeth up to an inch long and longer, strong, refrac 
and spiny-acuminate ; ovules solitary on each side at the narrowed 
base of the sterile blade; fruits obovoid-oblong, a little com- 
pressed, smooth, from yellow to orange-coloured, about 1} in. long, 
Hav.—Frequent in the Eng and dry forests of the Prome district.—Fl, Fr. 
March-Apr.—1-—$8,—Lat. vo apace 
Remarks.—Exudes a peculiar whitish gum like tragacanth. 
