1728 



* BAjNKSIA speciosa. 



Shewy Banksia, 



TETRANDRIA MO'NOGY'NIA. 



Nat.ord. Proteace/E. (^Introduction to the Natural Sij stem of Bo- 

 tany, p. 68.) 



BANKSIA. Supra, vol. 8, fol. 688. 



1. Stylus perlanthio longior hinc unguibus citius solutis arcuatim exsertus. 

 Stigma laminis tardii'ls deliiscentibus inclusum. Amentum floriferum cylindra- 

 ceum, fructiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. Banksise versE. R. Brown 

 Prodr. 247. 



B. speciosa ; foliis iinearibus pinnatifidis : lobis triangulari-semiovatis mucro- 

 natis subti'ls riiveis obsolete nervosis, perianthii laminis lanatis, stylo pu- 

 bescente, folliculis tomentosis. R. Brown in Linn. Trans, v. \0. p, 210. 

 prodr. 252. Graham in Edinb. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3052. 



A rare species, which, as far as we know, has only 

 flowered three times in this country ; first, in the Botanic 

 Garden at Edinburgh, next in the garden of his Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland, to whom we are indebted for an 

 opportunity of figuring it, and, lastly, in the collection of 

 Henry Berens, Esq. atSidcup. 



It is chiefly for its beautiful foliage and graceful habit 

 that it is valued, its flowers having no strikingly brilliant 

 colours to recommend them. 



We found neither the whiteness of the under side of the 

 leaves, nor the faintness of the veins, which are supposed to 



* It is almost superfluous to say that this fine genus was named in honour 

 of the late Sir Joseph Banks, the enlightened traveller, and the steady friend of 

 science, whose memory would deserve to be immortalized, if it were only for his 

 protection of such men as Dryander and Brown. 

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