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•shade, and the soil in such sitaations is usually sandy or 

 stony, and not rich. They succeed well potted in a com- 

 post consisting of a sandy loam two parts, peat one part. 

 To the foregoing remarks,' however, an exception must be 

 made in favour of two plants which, unlike the others, 

 ;are found in very shady spots about the borders, or in 

 ■dense scrubs, where the atmosphere is more moist, and 

 the soil contains more decomposed vegetable matter, and 

 this they require in cultivation ; these are the plants which 

 have been introduced to our gardens under the name of 

 Catakidozamia Hopei and C. MoLeayi, but which have been 

 reduced to the genus now under consideration, by those 

 Nwell versed in the order Cycadeacce. 



M. Denisoni.—A noble plant, reaching as we are told, 

 "the height of sixty feet in its native country. This, how- 

 ever, should not discourage the cultivator, for these plants 

 do not rapidly form a stem, but are very slow in growth. 

 Stem slender, in mature plants about a foot in diameter ; 

 leaves pinnate, three to six feet in length ; petioles glau- 

 cous when young, pinnse entire, linear, from six to twelve 

 inches long, less than an inch broad, dark green above, 

 tinged with red at the base, paler below. This plant has 

 been introduced to our gardens under the name of Cata- 

 hidozamia Hopd. Native of Eastern Australia. 



M. Fraseri. — This most beautiful species is very distinct. 

 The stem is some four or five feet in circumference ; leaves 

 pinnate, pendulous, and from six to eight feet in length ; 

 pinnaB linear, itapering to a fine spiny point, swollen at the 

 base, forming a joint or umbo, light green or greenish 

 white, about six inches long, less than a fourth of an inch 

 in breadth ; the upper surface is almost black green, the 

 under side dark green. Native of Australia. 



M. McLeayi. — A beautiful plant as far as we are ac- 



