Tas. 5121. 
STANGERIA parapoxa. 
The Fern-leaved Stangeria. 
Nat. Ord. CycapE#.—Diq@c1a PoLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores amentacei. AMENT. MASC. cylindracea. Stamina nume- 
Tosa, superficie inferiore squamz inserta, cuneato-quadrata, breviter stipitata. 
Pollen globosum. AMENT. F@M. ovoidea v. breviter cylindracea, Ovula 2, 
inversa, cavitate in basin squamz utrinque solitaria inserta. Frwetus ?—Planta 
humilis, caudice (caule) brevi rapiforme vie cicatricata; foliis paucis, e apice 
caudicis evolutus, vernatisve infleais, pinnatis, glaberrimis ; pinnis oppositis, sub- 
12-jugis, oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, ultra medium spinuloso-serratis 5 (us 
Lomarize simillimis); costa valida; venis coste perpendicularibus, creberrimis hic 
illic furcatis ; petiolo, bracteis ad basin amentorum, amentisgue dense lanatis ; 
amentis breve pedunculatis ; squamis magnis, arcte imbricatis, late obovato-trape- 
zoideis, genitalia omnino velantibus. 
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STANGERIA paradoxa. 7. Moore in Hook. Kew ( 
J. Smith, l. ec. v. 4. p. 88. 
Lomarta coriacea. Kze. in Linnea, v. 10. p. 506 (not Schrad.). 
Lomarta eriopus. Kze. in Linnea, v. 10. p. 152. et v. 18. p. 116. 
J Misc. v. 5. p. 228, 
This very remarkable plant, which in its habit and foliage 
resembles no other of the Natural Order to which it belongs, 
was first in 1835 imperfectly noticed by Kunze as a South 
African Fern (Zomaria), and was sent by Dr. Stanger from 
Natal to N. B. Ward, Esq., and by him given to the Chelsea 
Botanic Gardens long after, viz. in 1851. It was first de- 
scribed by Mr. Moore, from imperfect specimens, as a “ Zamia- 
ike Fern,” or “Fern-like Zamia,” and the opimion exp 
that its affinity appears to be rather with Cycadee than Ferns, 
which has since proved to be quite correct. In 1854 speci- 
mens with cones were exhibited to the Linnean Society by 
Mr. Stevens (Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 340), and since then 
both male and female ones have been produced at Kew, but 
unfortunately not in the same year. Of these, a pair of ris 
ones, formed in April, 1858, produced perfect ovules, an 
withered away; and in the same month of the present year 
another plant produced the male cone figured in our Plate. 
Our specimens were received from Mr. Plant. 
JUNE lst, 1859. 
