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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Banksia serrata. 



Banksia litt oralis. 



Fig. 231. 

 Fruit (f). 



Fig. 230. 

 Fruit -bearing branch (.],). 



present, consists of only a small number of ap- 

 pendages, not closely imbricated as in Telopea, 

 Protect, &c. The flowers are geminate in the 

 axils of thick crowded bracts, and each flower 

 is moreover accompanied by a thinner narrower 

 bractlet. Some threescore species 1 of this 

 genus have been described, which with the 

 closely allied genera Dryandra and Hemiclidia 

 make up the whole of this series. 



1 Cat., Icon., vi. 28, t. 542. — Labill., Toy., i. 412, t. 23; 

 Nouv.SoU., i. US. — W., Spec, i„ 535. — Hoffmsg., Verz. 

 JS'acht., ii. 64.— Dietr., Garten/., ii. 150.— Sm., N.-HolL, i. 13, 

 t. 4. — Likdl., Swan. Sir., 34.— Leiim., PI. Preiss., i. 582. — 

 Meissn., in Lehm. PI. Preiss., ii. 264; in Hook. Journ. (1852), 

 210; (1855), 118.— F. Muell., Fragm., iv. 107, 177.— Benth. 

 & F. Muell., FL Austr., v. 541. — Walp., Ann., iii. 333. 



