Mr. Walter Hill, the zealous and able head of the Brisbane Bo- 

 tanic Garden, rediscovered it in Rockingham Bay, and sent a 

 young living plant, with full-grown dried leaves and a male cone, 

 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1S63. From these materials the 

 Plate and description have been made ; and, in accordance with 

 Mr. Hill's desire as well as our own, we have have attached the 

 name of the present enlightened Governor of Queensland (Sir 

 George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., Captain and Governor-in-Chief), 

 to the genus, in recognition no less of that officer's position as 

 Governor of the district of Australia, in which the plant was 

 found, than of his liberal encouragement of botany, and of Mr. 

 Hill's exertions in particular. 



As a genus, the most prominent character of Bowenia is the 

 compound leaf, its general characters (all but shape), texture, 

 and venation ; the leaflets do not differ from those of Macrozamia, 

 and are so very similar to those of some West Indian Zamias, 

 that it is difficult to distinguish them generically, except that in 

 Bowenia the leaflet is decurrent by the petiole, and not articu- 

 late with the rachis. The habits of growth, caudex, etc., en- 

 tirely accord with that of the South America Zamias, as does 

 the male amentum ; the female amentum and fruit are both 

 at present unknown, but we trust ere long they will be detected 

 and published. Hooh.fil. 



Fig. 1. Reduced figure of entire plant. 2. Caudex and base of petiole. 3. Por- 

 tion of leaf. 4. Male cone : — natural size. 5, 6, and 7. Side, upper and under 

 view of scale, with anthers : — magnified. 



