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Perianth tube. —Very slender and entire within the bracts, ultimately splitting beyond them. 
In fruit the bracts and bracteoles become consolidated with the rhachis into a thick woody cone, 
either covered with the withered remains of the perianths, amongst which 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 1,000 in the same spike. (RF1., v, 541.) 
Botanical description. —Species, B. integrifolia, Linn., f., Suppl., 127. 
A tree attaining sometimes a considerable size, the young branches closely tomentose. 
Leaves. —Scattered, sometimes irregularly verticillate, oblong cuneate, or lanceolate, quite entire 
or irregularly toothed, tapering into a short petiole, 3 to 4 in. long in some specimens, twice 
that length in others, especially the northern ones, £ to near 1 in. broad, white underneath, 
with numerous transverse veins and reticulations not very prominent; the young shoots are 
also sometimes tomentose or villous, with richly coloured fulvous, almost woolly, hairs 
persisting on the under side till the leaves are nearly full grown. 
Spikes. —Oblong or cylindrical, 3 to 6 in. long. 
Bracts. —Tomentose at the end. 
Perianth. —Usually about 1 in. long, silky; style straightening after the perianth-laminae have 
separated, and usually very spreading or reflexed, as in B. marginata. 
Fruiting cone. —Oblong, cylindrical, the capsules prominent and not thick as in that species.— 
R.Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc., x, 206; Prod., 393 ; Meissn., in DC. Prod., xiv, 456 ; Cav, Ic. 
VI, t. 546 -Bot. Mag., t. 2770. (B.F1., v, 554.) 
Bentkam (B.F1. v, 554) has a var. paludosa of B. integrifolia. He says :—■ 
Flowers scarcely larger than in B. marginata , the perianth 7 to 8 lines long, but the leaves of one 
of the common, short-leaved forms of B. integrifolia, 
and gives the synonymy “ B. paludosa, B.Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. x 207; Prod. 394; 
DC. Prod, xiv, 457 ; Bot. Beg. t. 697; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 392.” 
This is a dwarf, much-branched shrub found in the coast districts and coastal 
tablelands from south to north of this State. Mr. Camfield and I ( Proc. Linn. Soc., 
N.S. W., 1898, pp. 267-270) have shown that B. paludosa, B.Br., is a good species, 
and that it is certainly not a form of B. integrifolia. The paper is too long to print 
here, but it may be referred to in view of the confusion that has so long existed 
between the species. The cones, as described by Meissner (DO. Prod, xiv, 457) are 
referable to a form of B. latifolia. 
Botanical Name. — Banksia, in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, long the 
President of the Boyal Society of London, and deeply associated for a number of 
years with the welfare of the infant colony of Australia; integrifolia, Latin, 
integer-gra, entire or whole; folium, a leaf, referring to the margin of the leaf. 
Vernacular Name.— The origin of the name Honeysuckle will be dealt 
with under “ Flowers. ” This particular species is commonly known as “White 
Honeysuckle,” primarily to distinguish it from B. serrata (Red Honeysuckle) whose 
timber is far redder than that of the species now under consideration. Often it is 
called “Coast Honeysuckle,” from the situations it frequents, 
