( 3052 ) 

 Banksia speciosa. Handsome Banksia. 



Class and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Proteace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. quadripartitus (raro quadrifidus.) Stamina apicibus 

 concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamula hypogyna? 4. 

 Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Folliculus bi- 

 locularis, ligneus : dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentum 

 flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Banksia speciosa. 



Banksia speciosa; foliis linearibus pinnatifidis lobis trian- 



gulari-semiovatis mucronatis subtus niveis obsolete 



nervosis, calycis laminis lanatis, stylo pubescente, fol- 



liculis tomentosis. Brown. 

 Banksia speciosa. Br. Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 10. p. jJIO. 



Spreng. Si/st. Veget. v. I. p. 486. Graham in Minb. 



Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830. 



Descr. Trunk erect, branched ; branches spreading, 

 towards their extremities densely covered with snowy to - 

 mentum. Leaves (a foot and a half long, an inch and a halt 

 broad) scattered, linear, attenuated at the base, and very 

 slightly so at the apex, truncated, pinnatiHd, nerved and 

 reticulated, covered on both sides when young, with short, 

 dense, white tomentum, which is beautifully snowy below, 

 when old, naked, bright green and shining above ; segments 

 alternate, triangular, ovate along their upper edge, mucro- 

 nate, the mucro projecting forwards. Spike (four inches 

 and a half long, three inches and a half broad to the extre- 

 t3 ' mities 



