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Tas. 5954, 
TODEA BARBARA. 
Native of Temperate Australia and South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Fizices.—Subord. Osmunpacezr, 
Genus Topra, Willd. ; (Hook. et Bauer, Gen. Fil., t. xlvi. B). 
Topra barbara; candice subarborescente, fronde lanceolata pinnata vy. 2- 
pinnata, pinnis coriaceis glabris v. subtus pilosulis erecto-patentibus, 
pinnulis approximatis lineari-oblongis acutis crenato-dentatis v. lobulatis 
superioribus confluentibus, soris densis globosis, 
Tovra barbara, Moore Ind. Fil. ; Hook. et Baker Synops. Fil., 427. 
Tovea africana, Willd. in Schrift. Acad. zu Erfurt, 1802, p. 14, t. 3, £1; 
Swartz Syn. Fil. 162; Hook, and Bauer Gen. Fil. lc. ; Hook. f. FA. 
Nov. Zeal., vol. iti. 48 and 338; Fl. Tasman., vol. ii. 153, t. 178; 
Lowe's Ferns, 8, t. 67; Smith Ferns Brit. and For., 265. 
Tove rivularis, Sieber ; Kunze Analect., 64. 
Osmunpa barbara, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap., 171; Flor. Cap. Ed. Schultes, 
p- 752. 
Osmunpa barbata, Brown Prodr. Fl. Aust., 163. 
Acrosticuum barbarum, Zinn. Sp. Pl, p. 1529; Hort, Clifort., p. 496; 
Amen, Acad., vol. i. p. 274. 
Finix Arricana, &c., Plukenet Almag., p. 156, t. 181, f. 5. 
Amongst the striking objects in the Great Temperate House 
at Kew, none has of late attracted more notice than the 
gigantic specimen of Zbdea barbara, or as it is there called 
(from its affinity to our British Osmunda), the Australian 
Fern Royal, sent by Baron Von Mueller, from the Victorian 
Alps, in 1869. Huge specimens of this plant had previously — 
been sent to Europe from Australia, and, after seeing — 
four such exhibited at the St. Petersburg Horticultural 
Exhibition in 1869, I wrote to my friend the Baron, and 
begged him to procure for us the largest specimen he could ; 
which with his wonted promptitude and liberality, he did at 
MARCH Ist, 1872. 
