112 AUSTRALIAN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Kew. The Banksias, known in Australia as " Honeysuckles," 

 are all remarkable for the beauty of their foliage and their 

 characteristic bottle-brush flowers. Two species are reported 

 as growing at Abbotsbury, viz., the oak-leaved Banksia 

 querci folia and B. integrifolia. The leaves of the latter are 

 entire and silvery w r hite beneath. Of the hill-loving B. collina 

 there are two well-grown bushes now in flower in the late 

 Dr. Russel Wallace's garden at Broadstone. In this species 

 the leaves are broadly linear with a jagged apex. The under 

 surface as in other species is silvery white. The flower heads 

 are about 6 to 8 inches long and about 2 to 3 inches in 

 diameter. At the time (January, 1916) when the Broadstone 

 plants were in flower, similar plants under cultivation in the 

 Temperate House at Kew also were in bloom. An illustration 

 of the latter appeared in the " Garden." Banksia collina 

 was introduced in 1822, and the first plant to flower in this 

 country was in the conservatory of the Duke of Northumber- 

 land at Sion House, near Isleworth. In 1830 it flowered in 

 one of the houses at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 



HAKE AS. 



The Hakeas, named after the botanist Hake, are known in 

 Australia as " Needle Bush " and " Pin Bush " on account 

 of their extremely sharp-pointed leaves. According to 

 Maiden, good drinking water is obtainable from the fleshy 

 roots of Hakea leucoptera. As this grows in arid sandy 

 districts the water no doubt proved of great value to the 

 early explorers of the Australian continent. The flowers of 

 Hakea lorea are rich in a brown thick hone}'. Hakea 

 pubescens is now growing at Abbotsbury. The most 

 remarkable Hakea tree in this country is certainly that 

 growing on the lawn at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst. This is the 

 dagger-leaved Hakea acicularis. Mr. Reginald Hargreaves 

 informs me that originally the tree grew in a conservatory 



