1502 CXXIV. • CYCADACE^. [Cycas. 



attaining 8 to 10ft. sometimes twice that height, rarely branched at the top. 

 Leaves 2 to 4ft. long or even more, the pinnae very numerous, straight or falcate, 

 obtuse or pungent-pointed, flat or slightly concave above when young, 

 prominently keeled underneath, the margins often at length recurved, mostly 

 slightly decarrent on the rhachis, slightly glabrous or densely pubescent when 

 young, the longer ones varying from 3 to 8 inches, the lower ones shorter and 

 more contracted at the base, the lowest passing into small prickles which 

 are sometimes very few or scarcely any, sometimes continued almost to the 

 base of the petiole. Cones variable in size. The males about 5 or 6in. long 

 and nearly the same in diameter. Drupes 1 to IJin. long, glabrous, usually 

 6 on each scale. 



Hab.: Burnett and Dawson Elvers, F. v. Mueller ; Cape Upstart, Bwdekin- Expedition ; 

 Bockingham Bay and Mount Elliott, Dallaehy ; llookhampton, Tlwzct. Common in tropical 

 localities. 



Nuts roasted and left on the ashes all day ; shells broken next day on stone, the " inside'*- 

 made into flour and left in dilly bag in running stream for another 24 hours before being eaten. 

 —Roth. 



2. C Kennedyana (after Sir Arthur Kennedy, G.C.M.G.), F. v. M. Chem., 

 and Drufiff. Melb. Vic. Trunk tall. Leaves very numerous ; petioles elongated, . 

 nearly glabrous, on their upper part armed with a few spines ; rhachis slightly 

 curved, somewhat flexuous, leaflets about 100 on each side, broad-linear, nearly 

 flat, acute and somewhat pungent, rather glaucous on the underside, shining, 

 glabrous on both sides ; all segments, but particularly those towards the summit, 

 decurrent ; the lowest nearly half. as long as the middle segments, and not 

 gradually abbreviated into mere spines. Male cone rather large, oval-ellipsoid, 

 the antheriferous portion of its scales narrowly wedge-shaped, about three times 

 as long as the deltoid, truncated, completely velvet-downy, entirely straight and 

 never pointed terminal dilatation ; bare upper side of the antheriferous portion of 

 the scales quite glabrous. Anther-cells extending to the base of the scales, not 

 grouped by any empty space into 2 areas. Female cone very large ; stipes of the 

 scales moderately elongated, and as well as their rhachis velvet-downy; drupes 

 always 4, nearly globular and perfectly glabrous, 



Hab.: In the Normanby Ranges, near Port Denison; Eugene Fitzalan. 



3. C. STormanbyana (after the Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G.), 

 F. V. M. Fragm. viii. 169. Curly Pine-Palm. Trunk 6 to 10ft. or sometimes 

 higher. Leaves 8 to 5ft. long, petiole bearing distant spines (abortive leaflets). 

 Rhachis tetragonous near the base, - the upper portion semiterete, leaflets 

 numerous, thin-coriaceous, opposite, shiny-green on the upperside, about 8 lines 

 long at the middle of the leaf, acute, about 3 lines broad. Male cones about 1ft. 

 long, scales very numerous, all fertile the centre ones about -^in. long, the 

 anthers densely crowded, f line long, tawny, cells oblique-ovate ; pollen-grains 

 light-yellow. Scales of the female cones bearing 2 orange-coloured roundish 

 fruits from 1 to IJin. long. 



Hab.: Mountains about the mouth of the Burdekin, E. Fitzalan. 



4. C Cairnsiana (after Sir Wm. Cairns, K.C.M.G.), F. r. M. Fragm. 

 X. 613, 121. Trunk about 15ft. high with a diameter at base of about l|ft. 

 Leaves about 5 feet long, glaucescent, petiole slightly pubescent, leaflets linear 

 with recurved margins, those of the centre of the leaf about Tin. long and 2 lines 

 broad. Male cone nai:row, scales about lin. long and 4 lines broad, rusty-hoary 

 beneath, point subulate, anther-cells minute. Scales of female cones, in the 

 upper part rhomboid-lanceolate bearing 2 ovate-globose shiny-brown drupes l^in. 

 long. 



Hab.: Newcastle Kange, W. E. Armit. 



