24 OBSERVATIONS ON ZAMIA INTEGRIFOLIA. 
706. Zamia L. Male flowers : Anthers open, collected in 
pedunculated terminal strobiles, inserted all round a common 
rachis. Each one ovoid, attenuated at base into a stipe (stalk) 
with an apex uniformly peltiform, subbilobate, lobes pollenifer- 
ous beneath. Female flowers: carpels numerous, one-leafed, 
open, collected in pedunculated terminal strobiles, inserted 
all round a common rachis, each at base attenuated to the 
form of a stalk, dilated at the free extremity, which is hex- 
agonal and peltiform, face beneath bearing a single inverted 
ovule. Fruit sub-discrete. Seeds ovoid sub-globose, testa 
bony, enveloped in a thin fleshy epidermis. Embryo in- 
verted, in the axis of the fleshy albumen, radicle centripetal 
with respect to the common rachis. 
1. Specific description. Zamia integr if olia. — Frondibus 
pinnatis, foliolis lanceolatis, rotundato obtusis, basi attenuatis, 
exteriore ad apicem serrulatis, stipite glabro subtetragono. 
WlLLD. 
Specific description. Zamia integrifolia. — Fronds pin- 
nate, folioles lanceolate, rotundo obtuse, attenuated at base, 
serrulate at the apex, stipe smooth, subtetragonal. Willd. 
Sp. Plant. 
The dwarf zamia has a root in the form of a somewhat 
spherical coated tube, rough and dark colored externally; the 
crown of the root, which is usually above ground, is some- 
times as thick as a man's arm, dividing below into several 
stout branches and fibres. The leaves arise immediately from 
the root in a cluster, and are from a foot to two feet or more 
in length; pinnate in form. The leaflets are from ten to 
twenty pair, opposite or alternate, sessile, each two and a 
half or three inches long, and varying in breadth from a quar- 
ter to three-fourths of an inch, entire, rather shining, strongly 
striated on both sides with parallel ribs, the extremity rounded 
obtuse, slightly serrated at the apex; the common stalk smooth, 
somewhat quadrangular. The cones arise from among the 
leaves, on stalks several inches in length, the male are three 
inches long, an inch wide, of a reddish-brown color, the 
female thicker and larger. The fruit is three or more inches 
