Stangeria
(named after William Stanger, Surveyor-General of Natal, who died in 1854). ORD. Cycadaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a stove Cycad, requiring similar treatment to that recommended for Zamia. S. paradoxa (paradoxical). Hottentot's Head. l. few, long-petiolate, pinnate, highly glabrous; pinnae opposite and alternate, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, acute, or acuminate, spinuloso-serrulate or slightly crenate, rarely pinnatifid-lobed, traversed by parallel, forked veins, like those of a Lomaria; the lower ones petiolulate and sometimes bifid at base, the upper ones sessile. cones pedunculate, villous, densely clothed with imbricating scales in many series; males cylindrical; females shorter, oblong-cylindrical. Trunk or caudex 1ft. long, nearly subterraneous, sub-cylindrical, turnip-like, or deformed, narrowed at base. h. 2ft. South-eastern sub-tropical Africa, 1851. (B. M. 5121.) S. p. Katzeri (Katzer's). l. few, ovate; pinnae about eleven pairs, obverse-oblong, roundish and mucronate at apex, slightly undulated and crenately repand along the margins. This differs from the type in its smaller size. (R. G. 798, under name of S. Katzeri.) S. p. schizodon (cut-toothed). l., pinnae irregularly incisoserrate. 1872. This is the more robust form; it represents the one extreme, whilst S. p. Katzeri represents the other.
