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W.A., 

 W.A., 



:')6 miles N.W. from 

 140 miles N.E. from 



Hakea Roei, lientham. AV.A., near Boorabin ; four to six 

 feet. The fruit is similar to that of H. incragsata, but is more 

 oval, with the pointed apex more terminal and tlie surrounding 

 seed-membrane is quite pale. 



Hakea Preissii, Meissner. W.A., Murchison district ; petals 

 yellow inside ; also on the Irwin River. 



Hakea platysperma, Hooker. W.A., between Boorabin and 

 Guardanoolagin, two to seven feet. 



Hakea palcata, .A'. Brown. W.A., near Boorabin ; Waranger- 

 ing, two to five feet. 



Hakea glabella, li. Bromi. 

 Southei'n Cross, five to ten feet. 



Banksia pkiokotes, Lindley. 

 Geraldton. 



Banksia Eldekiaxa, n. sp. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. o4). 



Branchlets grey-tomentellous ; leaves on short petioles, rigid, 

 much elongated, but rather narrow, flat, serrate pin natiiid, on 

 their upper side the venulation concealed, on their lower side 

 faintly reticulated, the foveoles there slightly whitish-tomentel- 

 lous ; lobes of the leaves semicuneate-deltoid ; inflorescencence 

 oval-ellipsoid ; petals very narrow, outside to about the middle 

 almost sericeous, their upper portion glabrous or glabrescent, 

 canaliculate-linear, blunt ; anthers (|uite narrow ; style only 

 towards its base beset witli sliort liairlets ; fruitlets densely 

 pubescent at their lower portion, glabrescent towards the some- 

 what acutangular summit ; seeds cuneate-deltoid, terminated by 

 a membranous appendage quite as long and considerably broader. 



Well-developed leaves seven to ten inches long, hardly ever 

 exceeding lialf-inch in breadth, almost of equal colour on both 

 sides, downward gradually narrowed, also upwards less broad 

 than near the middle. Flowers only seen as remnants among the 

 fruitlets, thus the colour unascertainable ; the styles all broken, 

 so that no stigma remained. United mass of fruitlets four to five 

 inches long ; individual fruitlets two-thirds to nearly one inch 

 broad. Seeds-testule and its appendicular protraction black. 

 Bears some resemblance to _B. Icevigata, though the leaves are 

 much longer and not truncate, besides having far longer lobes, 

 while also the indument of the petals is very different. From 

 -2- media it is similarly distinguished, as mentioned above, by the 

 form of the leaves, which moreover are not much paler under- 

 neath, but the characteristics of the petals are almost the same. 

 What Sir Joseph Banks for material support has been to the 

 science of Britain at his time, that Sir Thomas Elder has been in 

 promoting scientific knowledge for South Australia at our period ; 

 hence this plant is chosen to connect his honored name with that 

 of the British MiBcenas in a genus, which was named already by 

 Linnjcus — the younger. 



