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Cycas (About fifteen species natives)

About fifteen species, natives of tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, and Polynesia, are here included. To those described on p. 416, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Beddomei (Beddome's). l. about 3ft. long and 9in. broad; segments about 1/2in. broad; rachis sub-quadrangular; petiole quadrangular, furnished at the base with tufted tomentum, and in the upper third with a few minute teeth. cones (males) about 13in. long and 3in. in diameter, slightly stipitate, the scales tapering from a deltoid base, acuminate. Stem (? young) a few inches high, with closely imbricated, glabrescent leaf-bases. India, 1883. Mr. Thiselton Dyer considers this a reduced form of C. circinalis. (T. L. S., ser. ii., vol. ii., p. 85.) C. Bellefonti (Marquis de Bellefont's). l. recurved, glabrous, elliptic, pinnatisect; leaflets sessile, linear-lanceolate, 3 1/2in. to 4in. long, acuminate at apex, the margins flat, glaucescent; petioles short, spinulose at base, the spines small, straight. Trunk short, cylindrical, erect, clothed with fuscous-greyish scales. Tonkin, 1886. (I. H. 1886, 586.) C. Duivenbodei (Duivenbode's). l. pinnate, 3ft. to 3 1/2ft. long; leaflets crowded, acuminate, 1in. broad. Trunk spiny, covered with blackish-brown scales. Moluccas, 1886.