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BANKSIA OCCIDENTALIS. West-Coast 
BANKSIA. 
REE EEE EERE EE ERE EEE EE 
Class and Order. 
TretranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum). Stamina 
apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo- 
gyne 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Frollc- 
culus ligneus: dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentwm flos- 
culorum paribus tribracteatis. Br. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Banxsta occidentalis ; foliis linearibus extra medium spinu- 
loso-dentatis subtus aveniis, bracteis amenti apice gla- 
bris, perianthiis marcescentibus, unguibus basi intus 
barbatis, folliculis ventricosis tomentosis, apice com- 
Dreeuacule nudo, caule fruticoso, ramulis glabris. 
‘ a; 
Banksia occidentalis. Brown, Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 10. p. 
204. Ibid. Prodr. p. 392. Ibid. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
v. 1. p. 215. Roem. et Schult. 6% Veget. v. 3. p. 438. 
Sprengel, Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 484. 
This handsome species flowered in the greenhouse of the 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in September, 1835. 
Descr. Shrub erect. Branches ascending, red, glabrous, 
when young angled and having a few adpressed hairs. 
Leaves (four inches long, two lines broad) verticillate, 
linear, glabrous above, covered with white tomentum and 
veinless below, revolute in the edge, beyond the middle 
distinctly spinuloso-dentate, terminated with three mucros, 
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