Anatomy of the Seedling of Bowenia 
spectabilis, Hook. f. 
BY 
H. H. W. PEARSON, B.A. 
1 Frank Smart ’ Student at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , and 
Assistant Ctirator of the University Herbarium. 
With Plates XXVII and XXVIII. 
HE genus Bowenia was first described in the Botanical 
-I- Magazine in 1863, from plants sent to Kew from 
Rockingham Bay, in that year 1 . The particular interest 
of the plant from a phylogenetic point of view is centred 
in its bipinnate leaf, a character which is not found in other 
Cycads. c With the exception of Stangeria paradox a, no 
more remarkable Cycadaceous plant has been discovered 
than the subject of our present plate, and like that plant 
it differs from every other member of its Order in the nature 
of its leaves, which present remarkable analogies with those 
of Ferns ; whereas, however, the anomalous character of 
Stangeria is affected by the venation of the pinnules, which 
so exactly simulated those of a Lomaria , that two authors 
had (unknown to one another) referred it to that genus, 
the resemblance in the case of Bowenia is in some respects 
1 Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, (3) Vol. xix, Tab. 5398. London, 1863. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XII. No. XL VIII. December, 1898.] 
