392 
Banksia littoralis. 
Fie. 231. 
Fruit (3). 
NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Banksia serrata. 
Fie. 230. 
Fruit-beariug branch (4). 
present, consists of only a small number of ap- 
pendages, not closely imbricated as in Zelopea, 
Protea, &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’ of this 
genus have been described, which with the 
closely allied genera Dryandra and Hemiclidia 
make up the whole of this series. 
1 Cav., Icon., vi. 28, t. 542.—Laninn., Voy., i. 412, t. 23; 
Nouv.-Holl,, i. 118.—W., Spec., i, 535.—Horruse., Verz, 
Nacht. ii. 64.—Dizte., Gartenl., ii, 150.—Sm., N.-Holl., i. 18, 
t. 4.—Linph., Swan. Riv, 34.—Leum., Pl. Preiss., 3. 582.— 
Mrissn., in Lehm. Pl. Preiss., ii. 264; in Hook. Journ, (1852) 
210; (1885), 118—F. Muntt., Fragm., iv. 107, 177.—-Buwrin 
& F. Mugu, Fl. Austr., vy. 541.—Watp., Ann., iii. 333. 
