Tas. 4906. 
BANKSIA Vicrori. 
Victorian Banksia. 
Nat. Ord. Proreace®.—TEtRaNDRIA Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. Flores in amentum exinvolucratum collecti, paribus tribracteatis. 
Perigonium quadripartitum vel quadrifidum. Stamina 4, apicibus concavis laci- 
niarum perigonii immersa. Syuamule hypogynee 4. Ovarium uniloculare. Ovula 
2, collateralia, supra medium marginis affixa, primiz latere exteriore longitudina- 
liter fisso, nucleum nudante. Séylus filiformis ; stigma clavatum. Folliculus 
ligneus, bilocularis, ovulorum priminis in dissepimentum ligneum liberum bipar- 
tibile concretis. Semina 2, utrinque dissepimenti basi excavate adplicita, superne 
in alam cuneatam producta.—Frutices vel arbores mediocres, in Nova Hollandia 
extratropica passim obvia, in littore intratropico rarissime ; ramis umbellatis ; foliis 
sparsis, raro verticillatis, integris, serratis vel pinnatifido-incisis, in eadem stirpe 
sepe variis, glandulis cutaneis hypogynis ; amentis solitariis, terminalibus vel raro 
lateralibus, cylindraceis vel interdum abbreviatis, bracteis aliquot brevibus angustis 
subtensis ; florum bracteis persistentibus majoribus solitariis, minoribus geminatis 
collateralibus, interioribus amenti fructiferi rachi ut plurimum incrassata et cum 
Solliculorum basibus conferruminata. Endl. 
Banksra Victoria ; ramis fulvo-tomentosis, foliis sparsis elongato-linearibus (6- 
10-pollicaribus) pinnatipartitis utrinque tomentosis subconcoloribus supra 
demum glabratis levibus sinubus acutis, lobis late ovato-triangularibus sub- 
isoscelis muticis incurvato-acuminatis, supra aveniis, subtus anguste nervoso- 
marginatis 6-8-nerviis albido-punctatis, capitulo terminali sessili foliis su- 
perato ovato amplo, squamis infimis longe rufo-barbatis, calyce pollicari basi 
glabro, stylo calycem superante arcuato glabro (v. villoso) apice incrassato, 
stigmate medio leeviter incrassato supra conico-cylindraceo infra attenuato. 
Banxsta Victorie. Meisn. New Austral. Prot. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 1855, v. 7. 
p. 119. ; 
“Banxsta speciosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1728 (non Br.). 
A cut specimen of this fine Banksia was sent to us by Mr. 
Moore, of Glasnevin Botanical Garden, Dublin, which he raised 
from Swan River seeds from Mr. Drummond. ‘There can, I 
think, be no doubt of its being the same with the B. speciosa 
above quoted in the Bot. Reg., but not the B. speciosa of Br. 
and Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 3052; and equally certain does it ap- 
pear to be the B. Victorie@ of Meisner in Hook. Journ. of Bot., 
who described his plant from Drummond’s Swan River Herba- 
MARCH IlsT, 1856. 
