460 



ON SEEDLINGS 



No. 3. Oblanceolate, tapering to the base, serrate-dentate above 

 the middle and tridentate at the apex ; teeth spinous. 



No. 4. Narrowly obovate-cuneate, otherwise like the last. 

 No. 5. Similar, but larger. 



No. 6. Obovate, cuneate at the base, otherwise like No. 3. 

 Nos. 7 and 8. Similar, but larger ; No. 8, 6'9 cm. long. 



Banksia speciosa, B.Br. (fig. 633). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, stoutest under the cotyledons, 

 deep reddish-crimson, 2-2*5 cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons obovate -oblong, obliquely truncate and crenate at 

 the apex, with almost straight and nearly parallel sides, slightly 

 tapered to the base where they are auricled with subulate, acute, 

 slightly declining auricles connate 

 with those of the other cotyledon, tri- 

 nerved, nerves incurved and uniting 

 with one another some distance below 

 the apex, deep opaque green above, 

 paler beneath or tinged with violet, 

 glabrous, sessile, 1'5 cm. long on one 

 side and l'3o cm. on the other, 1-2 

 cm. wide at the apex, 6 mm. at the 

 base exclusive of the auricles. 



Stem erect, terete, hairy, reddish 

 when young, ultimately shrubby; 1st 

 and 2nd internodes rather compressed, 

 about '5 mm. long. 



Leaves alternate, alternately and 

 ascendingly penninerved, deep green 

 above and densely hairy or almost 

 villous, white with tomentum beneath, 

 revolute at the margins; petiole semiterete, flattened above, densely 

 hairy with jointed hairs, somewhat margined above by the decurrent 

 base of the lamina. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Cuneate, pinnatifid with two, rarely three, tri- 

 angular, obtuse, ascending coarse teeth or lobes on each side. 



FIG. 633. Banksia speciosa. 

 Nat. size. 



