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TAB. IV. 
BANKS I A fpinulofa. 
Prickly -leaved Bankfia, 
TETRANDRIA Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Receptaculum commune elongatum, fqiia-' 
mofum. Cor. tetrapetala. Stamiha limbo inferta. 
Capfula bivalvis, difperma, inter] edto feminibus 
diflepimento mobili. 
Common receptacle elongated, fcaly. Cor. of 4 petals. 
Stamina infeited into the limb. Capfule with two 
valves, two feeds, and a moveable partition between 
them. 
Spec. Char. B. foliis linear ibus revolutis mucronulatis 
apicem verfus denticulato-fpinolis. 
Leaves linear, revolute, with a little fliarp point, 
and with fpinous denticulations towards the top. 
THIS hitherto non-defcript fpecies of Bankjia has a 
woody branched Hem, the branches commonly three or 
more together, curved upwards. Leaves irregularl)” 
fcattered, clofely covering the branches, on very flioit 
footftalks, but little fpreading, from an inch and lialf 
to two inches in length, linear, very narrow, revolute 
in the margin, green and fmooth above, white and 
downy beneath, ending very abruptly, tipped witli 
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