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FOXWORTHY. 
long, clothed with a brown tomentnm externally, glabrous above. Carpo- 
phylls about 30 cm long, long-stalked, with 3-5 pairs of ovules above 
the middle, f erruginous-tomentose ; blade 7-10 cm long, 2. 5-3. 5 cm 
wide. Seeds 3-5 cm long. 
Batanes Islands, Camiguin, Worcester A, Bur. Sci. 3977 Fenix; Batan, For. 
Bur. 15289 Agudo. Luzon, ' Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17251 Curran: Prov- 
ince of Zambales, For. Bur. 6327, 6328 Curran: Province of Bataan, Merrill 3257, 
Whitford 269, 1325, For. Bur. 2577 Meyer, For. Bur. 7381, 7513 ' Curran, ' Cusrier 
22, Whitford & Foxworthy s. n., For. Bur. 12397 Curran & Merritt: Province 
of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 3281 Ramos: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 10156 Curran: 
Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 10319, 1031(4 Curran: Province of Cavite, For. 
Bur. 7671 Curran: Province of Batangas, For. Bur. 7737 Curran & Merritt. 
Polillo, Bur. Sci. 10776 McGregor. MindorO, For. Bur. 8613 Merritt. Min- 
danao, Province of Surigao, Bolster 280: District of Davao, Copeland s. n., 
Williams 3058: District of Zamboanga, Copeland s. n., For. Bur. 9393 Whitford 
& Hutchinson. Basilan, For. Bur. 3441 Hutchinson. Tawi Tawi, Bur. Sci. 
10823 Foxworthy. 
Some of our specimens have been found along the seashore and some on dry 
ridges at some distance from the coast. It is possible that some of our material 
should be referred to C. rumphii Miq. ; but I have been unable to find any sure 
means of distinguishing between the two. The species is very imperfectly under- 
stood and will repay further study. 
The seeds are poisonous when fresh ; but, when thoroughly washed and cooked, 
they furnish a sort of sago. This sago is used in the Batanes Islands north 
of Luzon. The young leaves are said to be cooked and eaten for food in the 
Province of Bataan, Luzon. 
Native names: uliva, patubo. 
Distribution : Africa, Ceylon, British India, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, the 
Moluccas, New Guinea, China, Japan, and the islands of the South Pacific. 
3. Cycas sp. Plate XXVII. 
Fori Bur. 3842 Curran, collected in Palawan in March, 1906, is a very curious 
form with leaves like C. circinalis and a very peculiar, slender staminate cone. 
Probably a new species; but I do not feel warranted in describing it at the 
present time. 
Cycas ? hypoleuca Presl in Epim. Bot. (1851) 238; F. Vill. Noviss. App. 
(1880) 212. 
This form is not properly referred to this genus. It is considered to be a palm. 
Class Y. CONIEERAE. 
Stem branched. Vessels in secondary wood wanting. Leaves usually 
small, linear or lanceolate. Flowers monoecious, always borne on the 
upper side of a scale. Cotyledons 2-15, always free. Vascular bundles 
of stem and leaf collateral and endarch. Embryo attached to a suspensor 
and embedded in endosperm. 
Fam. 1. Taxaceae . 1 * Ovules solitary or few, terminal, axillary or 
attached singly to the upper surface of a simple sporophyll. Seed often 
1 In this family, the descriptions of genera and species have been taken largely 
from Pilger’s monograph in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich 4. 5 
