PLATE CLVI. 



BANKSIA ERICiEFOLIA. 



Heath-leaved Banhjia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Receptaculitm comm^/nc elongatum, fquamofum. 

 Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo inferta. 

 Caplula bivalvis, difperma, interjedto femi- 

 nibus diffepimento mobili. Setnina alata. 



Common receptacle elongated, fcaly. BlofToni 

 of four petals. Chives inferted into the 

 limb of the bloffom. Capfule with two 

 valves, two feeds, and a moveable partition 

 betwen them. Seeds winged. 



See Banksia sekrata, PI. LXXXII. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bankfia foliis linearibus, margine revolutis, 

 ttuncato-emarginatis, fupra glabris. 



Bankfia with linear leaves, rolled back at the 

 edge, appearing cut off at the ends, which 

 are notched and fmooth on the upper fide, 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Bloffom complete. 



2. The fame fpread open. 



3. The Petals of a flower, with their chives magnified. 



4. The Pointal natural fize, with the Summit detached, magnified. 



5. The rudiments of a cone, cleared from the flowers. 



The feeds of this fpecies of Bankfia were amongft the firft which arrived from New Holland^ and 

 plants were raifed at the nurfery, Hamraerfmith, in the fame year as the B. ferrata. To the direc- 

 tions in the management and increafe of which plant, we refer our readers for the treatment of this, 

 as it requires no other. It grows to the height of five, or fix feet, very bufliy from the bottom, and 

 the leaves, which are harlh and numerous, are not very fubjeft to decay. Although it has flowered 

 in many collections, where we have feen it, we have had no opportunity of making an accurate draw- 

 ing until laft month, March 1801, from a fine plant in the colleftion of G. Hibbcrt Efq. Clapham. 



