THE AUSTRALIAN CYCADS 



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All the rest of the cycads have pinnate leaves, the 

 leaflets being arranged along the sides of the midrib, as 

 in the well-known ''Boston fern." Bowenia has twice 

 pinnate leaves, each leaflet being pinnate, as in the 

 *' maidenhair fern" (Fig. 13). 



Fkj. 13. — Boivenia spcctabilis, at Babinda, near Cairns, Queensland, 

 Australia. The plant is a little more than 3 feet in height. 



Bowenia is really hard to find until you get into its 

 immediate vicinity. I was told that it could be found 

 at Cooktown, in the northern part of Queensland. As 

 we approached Cairns, about a hundred miles south of 

 Cooktown, I could see, from the boat, fine specimens 

 of Cycas in the scanty Eucalyptus bush on the hillsides; 

 besides, passengers said that tree ferns and even larger 

 ferns without any trunks grew in the dense, rainy forest 



