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[Plate 35.] 
THE OCCIDENTAL BANKSIA. 
(BANKSIA OCCIDENTAL IS.) 
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THE OCCIDENTAL BANKSIA.— A shrub. Branches | BANKSIA OCCIDENT A LIS ; fruticosa, ramulis glabris ; 
smooth. Leaves long-linear, with spiny teeth beyond 
the middle, veinless and white with down beneath. Spike 
long, cylindrical. Bracts broadly triangular, acute, smooth 
at the point, the lowermost long and awl-shaped. Calyxes 
shrivelling, silky, with the claws downy at the base on the 
inside. Style very long, with a small withered stigma. 
Follicles ventricose, downy, somewhat compressed and 
naked at the point. 
foliis elongato-linearibus, extra medium spinuloso-serrat 
subtus aveniis niveo-tomentosis ; amento elongato, cylin- 
drico, bracteis late triangularibus, acutis, apice glabra 
infimis elongatis subulatis ; calycibus marcescen films, 
sei-iceo-puberulis, unguibus basi intua pubtiefliitibus ; 
stylo pnebngo, stigmate minuto sphacelato; folliculis 
ventricosis, tomentosis, apice compressiuseulo nudia. 
Metener. 
Banksia occidentalis : R. Brown, Prodromus Florce N. Holland i&, p. 392. 
'pHis shrub, from the west of New Holland, is described by Preiss as growin 
overflowed in winter, near Seven 
River Colony. It has been long in gardens, but we had never seen the flowers till they 
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describes it as €€ an elegant species : the bush from which the specimen 
is not above three feet high, with half-a-dozen of such pretty flowers on it as are here represented. The 
bishop of Dublin, who received them from the district of Kin" George's Sound 
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