( 3120 ) 

 Banksia media. Intermediate Banksia. 



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Class and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Proteace^;. ) 



Generic Character. 



Perianthium 4-partitum (raro 4-fidum.) Stamina apici- 

 bus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamulce hypogynae 4. 

 Ovarium uniloculare biovulatum. Folliculus lignosus : 

 Dissepimento (e testis ovulorum amborum formato) libero 

 bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Banksia media ; foliis cuneato-linearibus truncatis dentato- 

 serratis basi attenuatis : subter reticulatis venis venu- 

 lisque glabratislaciniis tomentosis, perianthii unguibus 

 sericeis; laminis glabris, folliculis glabriusculis immer- 

 sis, floribus marcescentibus. Br. 



Banksia media. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl. p. 35. 



Descr. This appears to constitute a large shrub, or 

 small tree, with rather thick, rounded branches, clothed with 

 a thin pale tomentum. Leaves scattered, four to six inches 

 long, linear-cuneate, coriaceous, rigid, often truncated at 

 the extremity, the margins coarsely dentato-serrated, almost 

 spinulose, the base attenuated into a very slender, pale 

 yellow-green petiole : the upper side is glabrous, dark 

 green, and glossy, very obscurely veiny, below paler, the 

 veins and veinlets glabrous, the areolae or lacunes filled 

 with white down. Flowers of an uniform, rather pale, and 

 dull yellow, densely collected into a broadly-oblong, ter- 

 minal head. Scales very hairy, deep orange. Perianth 

 slender, silky, tubular at the base; the latinise filiform, 

 spathulate at the extremity, and there hollowed for the 

 reception of the anther. Style as long as the perianth. 



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