134 FLORULA of NEW HOLLAND. 



afcertain, efpecially when the numbers of its botanical produc- 

 tions arc fo highly boafted. Indignant at the concealment, I 



begin my lift. 



The genus oiBarvkfia opens the Florida ; under this are feven 



fpecies : 

 Eanksia. Bankfiajerrata, V/bite, p. 221. tab. 18. 19. 20; in which are 



cxpreffed bud, flower, and fruit. 



Pyriformis, White, tab. 21. 



Gibbofa, White, tab. 22. and another fpecies, in the 

 fame plate, unafcertained. 



This genus was firft named by John Reinhold ForJIer, in his 

 genera, in honor of Sir Jofepb Banks. 

 To thefe I add the three following : 

 Bankjia dent at a, Linn. Suppl. 127. 



TLrica folia, Linn. Suppl. ytj. -^ 



Tntegrifolia, Linn. Suppl. 127. 

 Cajuarina Stri£ia, Hart. Kew. iii. 320. 

 Torulofa, Hort. Kew. iii. 320. 

 YEtLow Gum The yellow gum plant of Phillip, p. 60. tab. 3, grows In form 



oi2.yucca\ has a ftem of confiderable thicknefs, fcaled regu- 

 larly ; the leaves are very long, out of their middle rifes the 

 frudification, on a flender ftem, twelve or fourteen feet high ; 

 of this the natives fometimes make fpears. The gum, or rather 

 refin^ is dug from under the roots, and is poffibly what Tafman 

 calls Gum Lac of the Ground \ it alfo exudes from the body both 

 voluntarily and on incifion. Mr. Wbite^ p. 235, fays it may vie 

 in its properties with the moft fragrant balfaras, and when burnt 

 fmells like balfam of T^olu, or Benzoin, It is a good peroral me- 

 dicine, 



