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three little fpines, and having feveral of the fame kind 
hooked upwards, in the margin, particularly towards 
the top. The young leaves are very downy. Flowers 
thick fet in a cylindrical eredf fpike, arifing from the 
divarications of the branches. Their common receptacle 
is cylindrical, rather obtufe, covered with clofely im- 
bricated downy fcales, fome of the lowermoft of which 
terminate in a long downy pointed arifta, and from 
among the reft ‘the flowers come out in pairs. The 
ftrudture of the flower is well exprefled in the annexed 
plate. We fufpedt the fruit figured in Mr. White’s 
Voyage, page 225, fig. i, may belong to this fpecies, 
but we have no politive authority to aflert it. 
Our Bankjia Jpinulofa differs from B. ericafolia of 
Linnaeus {Herb. Finn.') in having leaves at leaft four 
times as long, obtufe, but with a fmall central fharp point 
from the mid-rib between the other two terminal points, 
as well as in having a greater or lefler number of fmall 
flrarp-hooked lateral teeth towards the end of each leaf. 
The natives of New South Wales call it Wattangre. 
EXPLANATION of TAB. IV. 
1. A fcale of the receptacle. 
2. A flower unexpanded. 
3. The fame expanded. 
4. Stigma. 
5. Tip of a petal magnified, fliewing one of the fta- 
mina in its natural fituation, 
6. Stamen feparate. 
TAB. 
