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CLXVI. CYCADE^. 
[Cycas, 
leaves. Seeds large drupaceous, egg-shaped, albuminous. Genera 
9. Species about 80, all tropics and some temperate regions. 
1 . CYCAS, Linn. 
Stems usually tall. Leaves pinnate with narrow-linear leaflets. 
Male cones large, scale long, acuminate. Female carpophylls lanceo¬ 
late or fan-shaped, red-woolly. Species 12, tropical Africa and 
Asia, Polynesia. 
Stem erect, brown, often branched; carpophylls narrow 
lanceolate . ..(i) C. Rumphii 
Stem sub-erect, white, simple, base swollen; carpophylls 
obovate pectinate . . . . , . . (2) C. siamensis 
(i) C. Rumphii Bull. Sc. Phys. Need. 839, 45; Ann. Bot. 
ii. S f, A. and B .; Dyer in Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 657; Ridl. Journ. 
Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 60, p. 67. C. circinalis Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 744; 
Gri^. Notulce, iv. i, Ic. PI. As. t. 361 (not of Linimus). 
Stem 4 to 20 ft. tall, 6 in. through, cylindric, not swollen at 
base, brown, often branched, with axillary buds, rough with the 
leaf bases. Leaves 6 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, petioles thorny, leaflets 
linear acute, -5 in. across, dark green, polished, coriaceous. Male 
cone I ft. tall, about 4 in. through, orange-colour, coarsely scented. 
Anther-scales 75 in, long, obcuneate, with a long acuminate spine. 
Female, carpophylls 9 in. long, -5 in. wide, linear at base, gradually 
dilate into a lanceolate limb shortly toothed, acuminate, orange- 
woolly ; ovules 4 to 6 in the notches. Seed ellipsoid, orange, i in, 
through. Hah, Sea-coasts, and in forests, Singapore, Changi; 
