NATIVE HONEYSUCKLES OR BANKSIAS. 49 
with two longitudinal fissures on the inner face. Style setaceous, 
exserted, smooth, terminated by a minute ellipsoid not streaked 
stigma. Fruitlets hard, placed transversely on the finally woody 
axis, surrounded by bracts and remnants of flowers, opening broadly 
on the summit, compressed and narrowed towards the basis, 
including a loose septum, which is cleft at its upper portion into 
two plates. Seeds two in each fruitlet, collateral to the septum, 
expanded upwards into a comparatively large oval-wedgeshaped 
membrane; the nucleus pointed towards the base. Albumen none ; 
cotyledons two, compressed, straight ; radicle short, placed inferior. 
This species ranges from South Queensland to Tasmania and 
Spencer’s Gulf. | 
Far less frequent than this are all other Victorian Banksias. 
The Seacoast-Honeysuckle and the Sawleaved-Honeysuckle are 
mentioned already. The former differs from the common Honey- 
suckle in taller stature, larger leaves, with more prominent 
primary transverse veins or nerves and seldom with any teeth, 
usually also in larger flowers. This extends to Queensland, but 
not to Tasmania, and with us never leaves the seashores. 5B, 
serrata has deeply serrated flat leaves usually green underneath, 
elongated flowers, a furrowed stigma and thick woody downy 
fruitlets. This tree advances from Gippsland to New South 
Wales, and is in Tasmania known only from one place. 
Banksia ornata is always of shrubby growth, with leaves 
similar to those of B. serrata, but the flowers are downy, not 
silky and different in color. It extends from the Grampians very 
sparsely to St. Vincent’s Gulf, occupying sandy scrub-land. 
Banksia spinulosa is our only other species ; it received its 
specific name from the acute teeth of its leaves. It is by far the 
most handsome among Victorian congeners. The leaves are 
narrow, white underneath. The cylinders formed by the flowers 
are long ; the segments of the flowers are yellow, outside silky 
and above an inch long. The style is hooked and usually dark- 
purple or steel-colored ; the summit of the fruitlets is glabrous. 
Geographic extension from Gippsland to South Queensland. 
The Banksiz attain their maximum number in extra-tropic 
West Australia, where several species alike magnificent in foliage 
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