THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 67 
CYCADE. 
Shrubs or small trees with a thick simple or branched 
trunk with a terminal crown of leaves. Leaves pinnate or 
bi-to tri-pinnate, coriaceous, large. Flowers dioecious. Males 
in a terminal cone of hard peltate or flat scales bearing 
numerous, crowded, | celled anthers, or pollen-sacs. Females of 
flat carpellary léaves (carpophylls) bearing several ovules on 
the edge, arranged in a whorl at the top of the stem. Ovules 
large. sessile. Seeds large drupaceous, albumen copious. 
Distributed all over temperate and tropical regions. Only 
genus here Cycas. 
Trunk rough. Carpophylls elongate, C. Rumphia 
Trunk smooth white. Carpophylls short, 
broad pectinate C. Szamensis 
Cycas Rumphiu, Miq. Bull. Sc Phys. et Nat Neerl 1839. Monogr. 
Zo wanalebot Lndoint. 5: 6: A & B. linnca.X VII 688, Hook 
(iio ind Voor. ©. crcinaws Roxb. El. Ind. in 744. 
Griff. Notul. VVI. Ic Pl. As. t. 361 (not of Linné) C. circinalis 
var. angustifolia Miq. Comm. 119. C. Wallichit Miq. Monogr. 
Cyc. 32. C. glauca Mig. Monogr. 30 C. macrocarpa, Griff. 
More iver terri As. t. COCELXIIT 12 
Stem from 4 to over 20 feet tall, cylindric, brown, usually 
branched, and often emitting axillary buds usually about 1-2 
feet through, covered with the rough leaf bases. Leaves simply 
pinnate 6 feet long and 2 feet across, very coriaceous; petiole 
6 inches long armed with short thorns in the upper part, 
leaflets linear, acuminate, base decurrent on the rachis, 12 
inches long, half-an-inch wide or narrower and shorter, midrib 
strong and prominent. Plants unisexual, Male cone about 
1 foot long, orange colour, Antheriferous scales obcuneate apex 
shaped, broad with a long acuminate spine from a broad base, 
¢ inch long, 4 inch wide at the apex, spine upcurved, half an 
inch long, pollen sacs very numerous, small, white, globose. 
Female carpophylls 9 inches long, petiole flattened, + inch 
across, gradually dilating into the hmb which is lanceolate 
and dilated at the end, 4 an inch across and shortly toothed, 
and ending in a long point, # inch long, all orange-woolly. Ovules 
4-6. Seed ellipsoid globose orange an inch through. 
Singapore Changi (Ridley 3940 and 4408), Pulau Tekong 
Tampenis river; Pahang Pekan, Rumpin river, on sea shores, 
Raub Track (Machado) in forest; Perak, Kamuning, Limestone 
rocks; Adang Islands, Tanjong Hantu, Rawei. 
Distrib South Tenasserim, Mergui, Malay Islands to North 
Australia. 
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