BANKSIA SHRUB. 
The figure annexed is from an orisinal 
drawing made in New South Wales, of the size- 
of nature ; which was about double the mag- 
nitude here represented. 
It was unaccompanied by any memorandum 
whatever: but is evidently a species of the ce^ 
lebrated Bahksia genus of plants^ 
We have simply denom.inated it Banksia 
Shrub ; though, certainly, it will demand a 
more specific name from the professed bota- 
nist, when it comes to be better known^ 
The plant, we believe, has not yet found itV 
v/ay to Europe. We are informed, however^ 
by a gentleman who has seen it growing in 
it's native cHrae, that" it is a thick, bushy shrub, 
about four feet in height ; and, that the fruit 
represented is merely a ligneous covering to the 
winged seed of the plant ; from whence it 
bursts forth, when it reaches maturity, andisj> 
as it w^ere, self-disseminated. 
