BANKSIA MULTIFOLIA. 
The elegant vegetable produ6i:ion lepre- 
seated in the annexed figure, is of the growth 
of New South Wales ; and, obviously, of 
that numerous class w^hich has universally 
received the denomination of Banksia, in 
compliment to Sir Joseph Banks. We have 
merely given an epithet to the family name; 
without pretending to fix the species, or even 
the genus, in which it jiiay be arranged by 
future botanists, when they come to be ac- 
quainted with the natural objedt from which 
our figure is taken. We received the drawing 
without any information; and, though it has 
been shewn to some of our first botanists, none 
of them are acquainted with the plant, shrub, 
or tree, from which it was delineated. We 
can, therefore, only add, with any positive cer-= 
tainty, that i[ is an accurate representation oi 
a non-descript vegetable produ£lion, reduced 
to about half the size in which it naturally 
appears. 
