APPENDIX, 
four fpecies of Bankfia, which we have endeavoured to fettle 
as follows: 
I. B. ferrata. Li?m^ Supp. 126. 
B. conchifera. Gaertn. 221. t. 48. 
This is the moft ftately of the genus. Its trunk is thick 
and rugged. Leaves alternate, ftanding thick about the 
ends of the branches on fhort footftalks, narrow, obtufe, 
ftrangly ferrated, fmooth and of a bright green colour 
above, beneath opaque and whitifli, with a flrong rib 
running through their middle. A very large cylindrical 
fpike of flowers terminates each branch. Mod of the flowers 
are abortive, a few only in each fpike producing ripe feed.' 
The form of the capfules may be underRood from the figure, 
which reprefents a whole fpike in fruit, about half the 
natural fize. The capfules are covered with thick down. 
Another plate of the plant in flower fliews the curved pofi- 
tion in which the ftyle is held by the corolla ; the increafe 
of the former in length being greater and more rapid than 
that of the latter. 
2. B» 
