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Character and description of Kingia
:''This article is about a scientific paper; for a description of the plant genus Kingia, see Kingia.''
''Character and description of Kingia, a new genus of plants found on the south-west coast of New Holland, with observations on the structure of its unimpregnated ovulum, and on the female flower of Cycadeae and Coniferae'' is an 1826 paper by botanist Robert Brown. Though nominally a formal description of the then-unpublished genus ''Kingia'', it is more notable for its digressions into ovule anatomy and development, in which Brown sets out for the first time the modern understanding of the structure of angiosperm ovules, and publishes the first description of the fundamental difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms. Of the latter it has been said that "no more important discovery was ever made in the domain of comparative morphology and systematic Botany".
==Background==
Brown had known of ''Kingia'' for many years, having collected specimens himself in 1800. However early specimens lacked good fruiting material, rendering it impossible to determine its systematics, so no attempt was made to formally publish it. Publication was not initiated until 1823, when Allan Cunningham approached Brown with a request that he consider naming a plant after the Kings, Philip Gidley King and Phillip Parker King. Cunningham provided a list of potential plants, which included ''Kingia''. The following year William Baxter sent Brown specimens of ripe fruit, and Brown set to work describing it.
As he often did, Brown took the opportunity to include some obliquely related material that he had been working on for some time; indeed as early as 1809. Partly as a result of this, production of the paper lagged, and by 1825 there was some concern that the paper would be preempted by Cunningham's forthcoming ''A few general remarks on the vegetation of certain coasts of Terra Australis''. However Brown's paper was eventually read to the Linnean Society in November 1825, and appeared in print the following year as a preprint. Official publication occurred in 1827, in the second volume of Phillip Parker King's ''Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822''.〔
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