120 Dr. Smith's Sketch of the Genus Concilium. 



Banksia gibbosa. White. Voy. 224. *. 22. /. 2. Willden. Sp. 



PL v. 1. 536. 

 B. pinifolia. Salisb. Prod. 51 ? 

 Hakca gibbosa. Cavan. 1c. v. 6. 24. t. 534. 

 H. pubescens. Schrad. Sei*t. 2? ? 



Near Port Jackson, New South Wales. Dr. White. 



The leaves of this species are from an inch and half to two 

 inches long, as thick as a crow's quill, exactly cylindrical, blunt- 

 ish, tipped with a sharp spine ; when young they are clothed 

 with short whitish hairs, which sometimes, but not always, fall 

 off when the leaves are very old. Young branches hairy. 

 Tlowers axillary, two or three together, white, on simple very hairy 

 stalks. Corolla quite smooth. Capsules solitary, the size of a 

 moderate walnut, black and rugged, very protuberant at their 

 under side ; the valves extremely thick and woody, each tipped 

 with a short sharp point ; the cavity very small, eccentric and 

 uneven. Seeds with black membranous wings, resembling gauze 

 or crape. 



2. Conchium sphceroideum, foliis teretibus longitudine fructus 

 ramisque villosis, capsulis orbiculato-depressis laeviusculis. 



Near Port Jackson. Dr. White. 



Leaves scarcely more than an inch long, very hairy. Branches 

 clothed with dense woolly hairs. Capsules of a rusty brown, 

 the size of the last, but much smoother, and of a different 

 shape, being, when viewed vertically, almost orbicular, but de- 

 pressed, their points scarcely projecting beyond the circumfe- 

 rence. I have seen no flowers. 



3. Conchium 



