NOTES ON THE GENUS MACROZAMIA. 119 
l ee spiralis, Miq.—Subterranean trunk large, broadly cone- 
shaped, rising frequently above the ground into a cylindrical stem 
from a foot to 6 feet high and 12 to 20 inches in di ameter, Leaves 
ae the upper ones. Pat, ont varying much 
thick, the apex of the larger scales o 14 inch broad, with an 
incurved point short at the base and 2? to it inch long at the top. 
Habitat.—Not found beyond the coast ‘ran es; extending from Port 
Stephens in the north to t evee™ the southern extremity of “the Colony. 
ery abundant near Sydney, where it seldom produces stems. a 
Shoalhaven district it. is St rare to ihoews it with stems varying fro 
6 feet high; in this loc ity, and in many other places further sath, = 
sand Sedtusively Niptotes sonaletabli tracts of country. Native 
ang. 
2. Macrozamia Denisonii, Moore and Mueller. —Trunk 18 to 20 feet high, and 
at least 18 inches thick. Leaves, 7 to 10 feet long; the petioles angular, 
glabrous or wabiaces t at the inne inches long in the 
rger leaves, } inch broad w the middl y and 
finely mar ith parallel veins, only slightly contracted at the 
é and inserted longitudinally along the cent upper surface 
of rhachis, without any or only ry narrow line separating thi 
© rows, the upper ones gradually shorter. Male con 015 
inches long, 4 to 6 inches diameter, the ap the scales 1 to 14 
very k and produced into a short triangular or 
lanceolate almost obtuse poin le cones 14 to 2 feet long, 
conical, 1 foot in diameter at the base, 6 inches at the top, the scales 
often 2 inches broad, tapering into a short and very obtuse or pather 
longer and lanceolate recurved point. Seeds very oblique, about 2 
inches long and 1 inch broad. 
wi ahitat. —In various places from the Manning River district, its eset 
» to Queensland. Near Lism ap eS the Ric it n 
tems quite 20 or more feet is ore very large on on 
3. i mia cylindrica, C. Moore.—Trunk not raised above the ground. 
Leaves glabrous, 3 to 4 feet long, slender, of a pale green 
colour B rather upright flaccid nehis + ; the rhachis nearly flat 
below, and longitudinally on the upper ace between 
two ro 5 te very num t, glossy gree 
above, paler and finely striate beneath, the larger ones 1 foot Ayes 
scarcely above 3 lines broad, i oes apts 
pungent point, lower pinne much passing 
: r fi contracted, 
. ap gu oi Base of the the pine slightly yoga 
col callous. 
Male mieteie 7 to ome 10 inches long, ee to ary aeeh se corti 
astrictly cylindrical shape. Scales thick, rhom 
