Cycas (Supplement)
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.