( 3060 ) 

 Banksia littoralis ? Shore Banksia. 



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Class and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Proteace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum.) Stamina 

 apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamulce hypo- 

 gynae 4. Ovarium triloculare, loculis monospermis. Folli- 

 culus ligneus : Dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentum flos- 

 culorum paribus tribracteatis ! Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Banksia littoralis? foliis elongato-linearibus spinuloso- 

 dentatis basi attenuatis subtus aveniis, perianthiis de- 

 ciduis, folliculis compressis bracteisque strobili apice 

 tomentosis, caule arboreo, ramulis tomentosis. Br. 



Banksia littoralis ? Br. in Linn. Soc. Trans, v. 10. p. 205 ? 

 Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 392 ? Rcem. et Schultes, Syst. 

 Veg. v. 3. p. 438 ? Spreng. Syst. Veg. v.\.p. 485 / 

 (excl. syn.J Bot. Reg. t. 1363. 



Descr. Shrub erect. Branches ascending, purple, vil- 

 lous. Leaves scattered, pubescent when young, naked and 

 dark green above when old, densely covered with snowy 

 tomentum beneath ; on short, erect petioles, linear, trun- 

 cated, spinuloso-serrated, veinless, slightly revolute at the 

 e <%es. Amentum (four inches long, three inches broad to 

 "ie extremities of the styles) terminal, upon a short, leafy, 

 Peduncle, the branches rising far above it, from a whorl at 

 jts base. Flowers in pairs, forming rather distant double 

 hnes along the rachis, with which, when fully expanded, 

 "ley are nearly at right angles, expanding from above 

 downwards. Bracteas tomentose, green where exposed, 



yellow 



