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they flower from December to March. D. Indica has pure 

 white flowers, and a finer scent even than the last, a small 

 plant being sufficient to scent a house, and for this reason 

 should not be omitted ; its leaves are larger than the last. 

 B. hybrida has purple flowers, which last nearly all the 

 year ; it is a handsome species and nearly hardy ; papyracea 

 and Japonica are also greenhouse plants. 



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Exogens, with flowers having the calyx four-leaved or four- 

 cleft. No corolla. Stamens four, opposite the segments of the 

 calyx. Leaves hard, dry, divided or not, their skin often equally 

 covered on both sides with stomata. — Shrubs. or small trees; 

 natives principally of the Cape and New Holland. 



BANKSIA. 



Gen. Char. (Tetrandria Monogynia.) Calyx four-parted; sta- 

 mens immersed in the concave ends of the segments ; scales four ; 

 ovary two-celled. 



Named after Sir Joseph Banks. A genus of very curious 

 Australian evergreen shrubs, of which several species have 

 been introduced into our greenhouses : the individual flowers 



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