BAN 



ftraiiger to our gardens, at Arnhem's land, oo the northern 

 coaft. Of the height or fize of the plant we are not in- 

 formed. The branches are rufty and fomewhat downy. 

 Leaves alternate, from a fpan to a foot long, on (hort Italks ; 

 their margins remarkably undulated, and bordered with broad, 

 ihallow, fpinous-pointed teeth. Catkins fix inches long, more 

 llender than ufual ; their fcales downy, the larger one to 

 each pair oi Jloivers fpinous-pointed. 



27. B. quercifolia. Oak-leaved Bankfia. Ait. n. 18. — 

 Leaves oblong-wedgefhaped, rather abrupt, fmooth, deeply 

 ferrated, pointed. Segments of the corolla awned. Fol- 

 licles nearly fmooth. — Found by Mr. Brown, in fields near 

 the (hore, m Lewin's land. The awns of the corolla are in- 

 dicated by him as a very remarkable charafter. 



28. B. fpeclofa. Long-leaved Bankfia. Ait. n. 19 



Leaves linear, pinnatifid ; lobes triangular-halfovate, pointed ; 

 fnow-white and flightly ribbed beneath. Limb of tlie corolla 

 woolly. Style rather hairy. Follicles downy. — Native of 

 the rocky fea-fhore of Lewin's land, where it was found by 

 Mr. Brown, and fent to Kew, with the laft, in 1805. 



^9. B. grand'is. Great Winged Bankfia. WiUd. n. 2. 

 Br. n. 29. Ait. n. 20. — Leaves deeply pinnatifid ; lobes 

 triangular-ovate, acute, flat ; many-ribbed, and nearly 

 fmooth, beneath. Corolla and follicles fmooth. — Gathered 

 by Mr. Menzies, at King George's found, on the weft coaft 

 of New Holland. Mr. Brown met with the fame on rocky 

 hills in Lewin's land. Seeds were fent to Kew in 1794, 

 where this magnificent (brub thrives well, in the green-houfe, 

 but has not yet flowered. Willdenow's fpecific name alludes, 

 we prefume, to the foliage, and not to the Jloiuers, with 

 wliich he was not acquainted. The Ica-uss are twelve or 

 fourteen inches long, pinnatifid to the very rib ; abrupt at 

 the CKtremity ; lobes numerous, more or lefs alternate, 

 crowded, tranfverfe, coifiaceous, entire, rather fpinous- 

 pointed ; roughifh to the touch on the upper fide ; paler 

 underneath, furniflied with five principal ribs, and man) in- 

 termediate veiny reticulations ; they diminifti gradually to- 

 wards the top, and efpecially towards the bafe, of the leaf. 

 We Iiave feen no Jloiuers nor fruit. 



30. B. repens. Creeping Bankfia. Labill. Voy. v. i. 

 412. t. 23. Br. n. 30. Ait. n. 21. — Leaves pinnatifid; 

 lobes finuated or toothed. Stem proftrate. — Found by 

 Labilbrdiere, on calcareous rocks on the fouth-weft coaft of 

 New Holland, where alfo Mr. Brown met with this fpecies. 

 It flowers there in December. The creeping_/?fTO is clothed 

 with rufty down. Leaves a fpan long, ftalked, ereft, deeply 

 pinnatifid, but not quite to the rib, which is winged nearly 

 all its lengtla : they are downy when young, but finally very 

 fmooth. Catkins ovate, nearly felTile, ereft, denfe, many- 

 flov.'ered, about three inches long. Corolla and germen haii-y. 



Seel. 2. Points of the corolla more fpeedily feparating ; the 

 narrow part of their fegments cohering longitudinally, and as 

 long as the Jlyle. Catkin Jhort and level-topped, perfeffing 

 fcarcely more than one vertical follicle. 



31. B. ilicifolia. Holly-leaved Bankfia. Br. n. 31. — 

 Leaves wedge-fliaped, deeply ferrated ; nearly fmooth be- 

 neath. Catkins very Ihort.-^Gathered by Mr. Brown, in 

 fields and hilly ground near the fea-coaft, in Lewin's land. 

 This fpecies is fo fingular, that its learned difcoverer appears 

 to have been inclined to make it a diftinft genus, by the 

 name of Ifojlylis. He remarks that it forms a connefting 

 link between Bankfia and Dryandra ; fee the latter here- 

 after. 



BANNIUM, in Ancient Geography, a Roman ftation, 

 called Gaer, or Caer Bannau, fituated about three miles 

 above the town of Brecknock, in South Wales, near the 

 confluence of the rivers Yakin and U/k. The camp is a 



BAP 



parallelogram, 624 feet by 456, having its longeft parallel, 

 in a dire aion nearly S. and N. The foundation of the waU 

 that encompaffed this area remains ftiU entire, and may be 

 traced through the underwood that has overgrown and con- 

 cealed It. In this ftation there is a caufeway, fuppofed to 

 have been a branch of the great Roman caufeway leading 

 from Caerleon, in Monmouthlliire, through the vale of Uflf 

 and the eaftern part of Brecknockftiire to Ariconinm) 

 which IS the 12th Iter in Antonine's Itinerary. 



BANQUETTE. Add— See Breast-work. 



BANTAM, col. i, 1. 50, after fettled there, infert— 

 Ihat of the Enghfti was eftabhftied in 1601, and main- 

 tained until 1683. That of the Dutch was ereded m the 

 year 1595, and this was their firft fettlement in the Spice 

 iflands, which had been firft vifited by the Portuguefe in 

 1510. The Englifti made no attempt to recover a frw 

 port in Java until the year i8ii, when Holland became a 

 province of France, and the Dutch colonies were induced 



to accept the proteftion of Great Britain Col. 3, at the 



clofe of Bantam, add— RaSes's Hiftory of Java, 2 vols. 

 4to. 1S17. 



BAPTISIA, in Botany, fo called by the late M. Ven- 

 tenat, from ^aTrlu, to colour by imimrfion, to dye, becaufe a 

 tinfture of the leaves, of fome of the fpecies, is faid to be 

 fcarcely inferior, in that refpecl, to Indigo. — Venten. 

 Decas Gener. Novor. 9. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 5. 

 (Podalyria; Michaux BoreaL-Amer. v. i. 26'v Purlh 307. 

 Lamarck Illuftr. t. 327. f. i.) — Clafs and order, Decandria 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Fapilionacea, Linn. Leguminofa, 

 Jufl^. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell-lhaped, 

 permanent, cut half way down into four or five fegmeuts, 

 forming two lips ; its bafe externally convex. Cor. papi- 

 lionaceous, of five petals. Standard inverfely-heartlhaped, 

 reflexed at the fides, with a thick claw. Wings two, 

 nearly as long as the ftandard, half-obovate, converging at 

 /their upper edges. Keel as long as the wings, of two ob- 

 long converging petals. Stam. Filaments ten, awl-(haped, 

 afcending, equal, inferted into the bafe of the cjyx, 

 deciduous ; anthers roundiih, two-lobed. Fiji. Germen 

 fuperior, ftalked, ovate or eUiptical ; ftyle longer than the 

 ftamens, afcending ; iligma capitate, hemifpherical. Peric. 

 Legume on a ftalk longer than the calyx, eUiptic-oblong, 

 turgid, membranous, of one cell. Seeds numerous, eUiptical, 

 ftalked. . 



Efl". Ch. Calyx two-hpped, divided half way down into 

 four or five fegiuents. Corolla papilionaceous ; petals all 

 nearly of equal length ; icandard reflexed at the fides. 

 Stamens diftinft, deciduous. Legume inflated, ftalked, 

 with many feeds. 



To this genus we have already adverted, under the article 

 Podalyria, as comprifing the North American fpecies of 

 that genus, as it ftands in Lamarck and Willdenow. They 

 are doubtlefs fuilicientiy marked by the above charafters, 

 to form a genus by themfelvcj. They are herbaceous, 

 perennial, many of them glaucous, and have nioiUy the 

 quality of dyeing blue. Leaves ternate, except the firft, with 

 a pair of rather large Jlipulas. Flomers moftly racemofc, 

 with i'mall partial braSeas ; their colour blue, white, or 

 yellow. 



1. B. perfoliata. Perfoliate Wild Indigo. Ait. n. i. 

 (Rafniapeifohata; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 949. Podalyria 

 perfohata; Purfh n. I. Crotalaria perfohata ; Lmn. Sn. 

 PI. 1003. Sm. Inf. of Georgia, v. 2. 133. t. 67. C. 

 perfoliate folio ; Dill. Elth. 122. t. 102.)— Lea.es fimplr, 

 perfoliate, roundifti, entire. Flowers axillary, foLtary — 

 Native of Carohna and Georgia, in dr^- barren fields, 



flowering 



