Zamia

Exhibition of 1851, by Sir R. Schomburgk, which is obtained in St. Domingo from the stems of a species of Zamia, called there Guanjiga; and the _Zamia Australis_, of Western Australia, yields even better fecula.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

The low woodlands are rich in Aldina discolor, Lissocarpus benthamii, Bactris cuspidata, Sphaeradenia amazonica, and Zamia ulei.

Rio Negro campinarana 2008

These are areas with high numbers of endemic plants and some very primitive species, such as the cycad Zamia.

Rio Negro campinarana 2008

Some endemic flora in the Sierra of Chiapas includes Alfaroa aff. mexicana, Ficus crassicuscula, Anthurium ovandensis, Zamia soconuscensis, Ceratozamia matudai and Quercus ovandensis.

Central American pine-oak forests 2007

Included among other amiable arrangements were clauses penalizing Germany and her allies as completely as Carthage was penalized by Rome after the disaster of Zamia — penalizing her in so overwhelming a way as to make default inevitable and afford a perennial excuse for her continued abasement.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

The eastern zone is often furnished with mountains, well wooded with evergreen succulent trees, on which neither fire nor droughts can have the smallest effect (‘Strelitzia’, ‘Zamia horrida’, ‘Portulacaria afra’, ‘Schotia speciosa’, ‘Euphorbias’, and ‘Aloes arborescens’); and its seaboard gorges are clad with gigantic timber.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

In these ravines, we first saw the arborescent Zamia, and various remarkable shrubs; the MYOPORUM

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Angola has sent refugees into Namibia and Zamia an claimed hundreds of lives.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

_Zamia pumila_, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and other species of this remarkable genus of plants, which is nearly related to both ferns and palms, supply an amylaceous matter, which has been sold as arrowroot.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

-- According to Thunberg, the Hottentots being very little acquainted with agriculture, or with the use of the cerealia, and subsisting principally upon wild bulbs and fruits, obtain food also from _Encephalartos caffer_, a species of _Zamia_, with a cylindrical trunk, the thickness of a man's body, and about seven feet high.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds