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the capsules are entirely concealed, or, where the flowers are wholly deciduous, 
the valves of the capsules protrude more or less beyond the bracts, the lower 
indehiscent portion containing the nuclei of the seeds remaining imbedded 
among the bracts. The proportion of perfect capsules is usually very small in 
relation to the number of flowers, of which there are often from 500 to above 1000 
in the same spike. 
The genus is endemic in Australia, and the greater number of species are Western. 
Sect. I . Oncostylis. — Leaves linear or rarely lanceolate , with revolute margins or 
nearly flat but very ivhite underneath , entire denticulate or pinnate with small numerous regular 
segments. Style remaining hooked after the perianth-limb has opened, the stigmatic end very 
small. 
Perianth-tube more than half as long as the style, silky as well as the limb. 
Leaves (about £in.) very narrow with closely revolute entire margins . . 1. B. ericifolia. 
Leaves (1^ to bin.) linear, more open, showing the white under surface, 
denticulate to the base or rarely eutire 2. B. collina. 
Sect. 2. Eubanksia. — Leaves linear-lanceolate, oblong or cuneate, with recurved or 
rerolue, eutire or dentate margins, white underneath. Style at first curved, straight and very 
spreading or reflexed after the perianth-limb has opened, the stigmatic end small, not striate. 
Leaves (mostly 3 to Gin.) entire or rare’y toothed, with transverse primary 
veins underneath, usually but not much more prominent than the 
reticulations and white like them 3. B. integrifolia. 
Leaves (mostly 4 to Sin.) broad, coarsely toothed, the transverse primary 
veins prominent underneath and not so white as the reticulations . . . 4. B. dentata. 
(II- latifolia has nearly the style and flowers of Kubanksia, but flat leaves not white under- 
neath.) 
Sect. 3. Ol’thostylis. T. cares flat or undulate, serrate, pinnatifid or pinnate, with short 
lobes or segments. Perianth usually straight. Style, after the perianth-iimb has opened, curved 
upwards near the base, then straight and erect, the stigmatic end prominently angled and furrowed 
or striate. 
Leaves 2 to Sin. broad, 4 to Sin. long, irregularly toothed. Style-end of 
Kubanksia 5. B. latifolia. 
Leaves 3 to 6in. long, £ to lin. broad, regularly serrate. Style-end 
ovoid, very short 6. B. cemula. 
1. 3$. ericifolia (leaves heath-like). Linn. f. Suppl. 127 ; Benth. VI. Austr. 
v. 547. A tall shrub or small tree of 12 to 14ft., glabrous except the 
inflorescence. Leaves crowded, narrow-linear, truncate or notched at the end 
and sometimes with an intermediate point, otherwise entire with closely revolute 
margins, rarely exceeding ^in. Spikes cylindrical, 6 to lOin. long. Bracts with 
broad shortly acuminate silky-pubescent tips. Perianth yellow, silky, the tube 
fin. long, the limb ovoid. Style about lin. long, hooked, with a very short thick 
stigmatic end. Fruiting cones long and cylindrical. Capsules scarcely pro- 
truding, villous but often becoming glabrous, the flat top f to lin. broad and 
4 or lines thick. — R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 203, Prod. 391 ; Meissn. in 
DC. Prod. xiv. 453 ; Cav. Ic. vi. t. 538 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 156 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 738 ; Bail!. Hist. PI. ii. 393, f. 227 to 229. 
Ilab.: llecorded for Queensland by F. v. 31., without locality. 
2. B. collina (growing oil hills), B. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 201, 
Prod. 3b2 ; Benth. VI. Austr. v. 548. A tall erect shrub standing 8 to 12ft., the 
young branches tomentose or villous. Leaves linear, always showing the white 
under surface, the margins only slightly recurved, more or less denticulate or 
rarely quite entire, 14 to Sin. long. Spikes oblong or cylindrical, 3 to Sin. long. 
Bracts with broad flat or scarcely acuminate ends. Perianths silky, the tube 
above lin. long, the limb narrow ovoid. Style yellow or in one form the upper 
half deep-purple ; longer than the perianth, hooked, with a very small stigmatic 
end. Fruiting cone cylindrical. Capsules thick and scarcely protruding, 
quite glabrous. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 454 ; B. ledifolid, A. Cunn. 
Herb. ; B. Cunniiuj'iamii, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 47, and in 
