254 CXVII. CYCADEJE. [Maerozamia. — 
Queensland. Between EAN n y te bays, W. Hill ; Rockingham 
bijs Dallachy ; Expedition e A. 0. G 
imens occur in her m Aaa i in our Sii of two varieties, differing in the 
pud or less distinctiveness of the veins d A o pinnule, and bearing often the names 
idozamia Macleayi and C. Hopei, H 
38. BOWENIA, Hook. 
and seed on each side.—Trunk Be ponte Leav d b ipinnate, with 
long petioles and rhachis, the Foe pet en reed, oblique, 
without any midrib 
The genus is limited t to the single Australian species, pete d from Macrozamia only 
in foliage and in the absence of the point to the cone-scales 
1. B. spectabilis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5898. Trunk thick, scarcely | 
raised above the ground, marked with the scars of the old leaves, the 
whole plant glabrous. Leaves attaining in outline a length of 3 or 4 ft. 
and spreading to at least half that breadth, loosely "A me 
in 
primary poma clustered 3 to 5 together a little below the middle 
common petiole or rhachis, with 1 or 2 Ri: ones on each side higher 
up, the > achis pietà terete, each pinna often a foot long or more, 
bearing 9 to 20 segments ovate or vocetur sl he or falcate 
ponies a tapering into a short petiole, marked wit "numerous parate; 
ps s 
F. Muell. Piu v. 121; A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 534. 
SPENT TM A. diste Rockingham bay, W. Hill, : 
achy. 
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