flowered three times in this country ; first, 
1728 
* BANKSIA speciósa. 
' Shewy Banksia. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PRoTEAcEm. (Introduction to the Natural System of Bo- 
tany, P. 68.) 
BANKSIA. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 688. 
1. Stylus perianthio longior hinc unguibus citiüs solutis arcuatim exsertus. 
Stigma laminis tardiüs dehiscentibus inclusum. . Amentum floriferum cylindra- 
ceum, fructiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. Banksie vere. R. Brown 
Prodr. 247. 
B. speciosa ; foliis linearibus "pinnatifidis: lobis triangulari-semiovatis mucro- 
natis subtüs niveis obsoleté nervosis, perianthii laminis lanatis, stylo pu- 
bescente, folliculis tomentosis. R. Brown in Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. 210. 
prodr. 252. Graham in Edinb. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830. Bot. Mag. 
t. 3052. 
— 
A rare species, which, as fâr as we know, has only 
in the Botanie 
Garden at Edinburgh, next in the garden of his Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland, to whom we are indebted for an 
opportunity of figuring it, and, lastly, in the collection of 
Henry Berens, Esg. at Sidcup. | 
It is chiefly for its beautiful foliage and graceful habit 
that it is valued, its flowers having no strikingly brilliant 
colours to recommend them. 
We found neither the whiteness of the under side of the 
leaves, nor the faintness of the veins, ‘which are supposed to 
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* It is almost superfluous to say that this fine genus was named in honour 
of the late Sir J oscph Bank, the eilightened traveller, and the steady friend of 
science, whose memory would deserve to be immortalized, if 1t were only for his 
protection of such men as Dryander and Brown. 
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