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BANKSIA australis. 
Tree Banksia. 
e 
* 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PROTEZ. Jussieu gen. 79. Div. I. 
PROTEACER. Brown in trans. linn. soc, 10. 46. Div. IT. 
Sect. B. Subdivis. I. 
BANKSIA. Supra vol. 8. fol. 688. 
B. australis, foliis linearibus truncatis mucronulatis margine recurvis integris 
subtüs reticulato-venosis, ramulis ultimis, bracteis amenti obtusis subz- 
qualibus apice tomentosis, perianthii laminis carinà obsoletissimà sericea, 
caule arboreo, Brown in linn. trans. 10. 206; et in prod. 1. 393. 
The species forms a tree in New Holland, where it was 
observed, and its distinctions from other nearly connected 
kinds defined by Mr. Brown: who has kindly confirmed 
the specific identity of our sample with that in his Herba- 
rium. 
First introduced by Mr. Colvill ; with whom it flowered 
this summer in the greenhouse at Chelsea. We do not 
find it taken up in the last edition of the Kew Catalogue. 
A proof sheet or two of the second volume of the “ Flora 
Indica," printing at Serampore, having been forwarded to 
Mr. Lambert, we have extracted a fuller account of the 
Brexia madagascariensis of a former part of this work 
(vol. 9. fol. 730) than we were then enabled to give. 
The tree is native of Madagascar ; but was met with by 
Dr. Roxburgh at the Mauritius, in the garden called Re- 
duité, belonging to the Governor. "The seed was carried by 
the Doctor to Bengal, and plants raised from it in the Cal- 
cutta garden, whence some have found their way into 
that of Comtesse de Vandes at Bayswater. 
* A small sparingly branched, slender tree, with pretty even brownish 
bark. Branches elongated, ascending, round, smooth, glaucous, as are all 
the other parts; young shoots somewhat angular, subcandent. Leaves scat- 
tered, approximate, most ascending or bent in one direction, coriaceous, 
