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SIR JOSEPH BAEKS 
was called Revesby Island, and names were applied in the chart to each 
of the other isles composing this (Sir Joseph Banks) group.”* 
Revesby Island is a large island immediately to the north of the 
group, which is in Spencer’s Gulf, and is named after Sir Joseph Banks’ 
Lincolnshire home (see p. 229). 
The Railway Commissioners of New South Wales gracefully named 
a station, opened on 21st October, 1906, Banksia. It is on the Illa- 
w^arra suburban line. 
B. — Genera of 'plants named in honour of Banks. 
Banksia, Forst. (1776)=Pimelea, Banks (Thymelaceae). 
Banksia, Linn. f. (1781) (Proteacese). 
Banksia, Koen. (1783)=Costus, Linn. (Scitaminese). 
Barksea, or Banksia, Bruce (1805)=Brayera, Kunth. (Rosacese). 
Banksia, Domb. (1828)=Cuphea, R.Br. (Lythrariacese). 
Joscphia, Salisb.t (1809) =Dryandra, R.Br. (Proteacese). 
C. — Species of plants named in honour of Banks. 
Eriostemon Banksii, A. Cunn. 
Hemistemma Banksii, R.Br. = 
Hibbertia Banksii, Benth. 
Hymenanthera Banksii, F.v.M.= 
H. dentata, R.Br. 
Pigea Banksiana, DC.=Ionidium 
suffruticosum, Ging. 
Drosera Banksii, R.Br. 
Helichrysum Banksii, A. Cunn. = 
II. bracteatum, Willd. 
Passiflora Banksii, Benth. 
Grevillea Banksii, Br. 
Microtis Banksii, Cunn.=Jf. porri- 
folia, Spreng. 
See also Hormosira Banksii, Dene. 
Australica.” 
Also Fucus Banksii, figured in Da^ 
Musa Banksii, F.v.M. 
Phyllanthus Banksii, Cunn. = 
Neoroepera Banksii, Benth. 
Piper Banksii, Miq. 
Desvauxia Banksii, Br. = 
Centrolepis Banksii, R. et S. 
Phaius Banksii, Spreng. = 
Leptaspis Banksii, R.Br. 
Thysanotus Banksii, Br. (?) 
Xerotes Banksii, Br. 
Eucalyptus Banksii, Maiden 
{Proc. Linn. Soc. A.S.TF. 1904.) 
figured in Harvey’s “ Phycologia 
rson Turner’s “ Fuci.” 
Portraits of Banks.J 
1. Benjamin West. (Eng., J. R. Smith.) 
“ Mr. Banks ” (a copy of this is inscribed, “ Sir Joseph Banks. Bt., 
^resident,” but Banks did not attain that dignity till 1778). 
• “ Flinders’ Voyage,” i, 152. 
r “ Knight et Salisb., Prot. ; Brown’s Prod. Flor. Nov. Holl., 396; Coil. Works (Ray Soc.), 
n, 11; Journ. Bot., xxiv, 298. 
} I desire to acknowledge the special help given to me by Messrs. F. M. Bladen and Hugh Wright, 
of the Public Library, in ih'-cking this list of portraits. 
