PLATE CCLVIII. 



BANKSIA PR^MORSA. 



Bitten- ended- leaved Banhjia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Receptaculum commune elongatum, fquamofum. 

 Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo in- 

 ferla. Capfula bivalvis, difperma, inter- 

 je6to feminibus diirepimento mobili. Se- 

 mina alata. 



Common Receptacle elongated, fcaly. Bloflbm 

 of four petals. Chives inferted into the limb 

 of the blodbm. Capfule two valves, two 

 feeds, and a moveable partition between 

 them. Seeds winged. 

 See Basksia serrata, PI. LXXXII. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bankfia foliis cuneatis pisemorfis, ferratis, fubtus 

 albo-punftatis, fupra glabris ; floribus ex- 

 terne purpureis. 



Bankfia with vedge-fliaped leaves, appearing 

 bitten at the ends, fdwed, dotted with white 

 on the under part, fmooth on the upper; 

 flowers purple on the outfide. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. A Flower not yet expanded, with the germ at the bafe. 



2. The fame open, the extremities of one of the petals magnified, to (Lew 



the fituation of the Chive in its place. 



3. The Pointal complete, the fummit magnified. 



The firft plants which were feen of this plant in England, were raifed from feeds, at the Royal Gar- 

 dens, Kew, in 1788. It is a handfome growing flirub, and the plant from which our figure was made 

 had grown to the height of feven feet ; it having been planted in the confen-atory of the Clapham 

 coUtdtion, where it flowered, for the firft time, this year, in July, conlinuing in high beauty near two 

 months. It is a plant of molt difticult increale, rarely that it is to be propagated by cuttings: and 

 the wood rots, if laid into the earth. A light foil, of fandy peat, and a Imall portion of fandy loam, 

 appears moft congenial to its growth. There are hopes, from the perfect flate of the cones, that ripe 

 feeds may be procured in this country. 



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