No. 139. 
Ban Asia collina, R.Br. 
A Honeysuckle. 
(Family PROTEACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Banksia. (See Part VIII, p. 169.) 
Botanical description. —Species, B. collina , R.Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc., x, 201 
(1809). 
A tall, erect shrub, attaining 8 to 12 feet, the young branches tomentose or villous. 
Leaves linear, much broader than in B. spinulosa, and always showing the white under surface, 
the margins only slightly recurved, more or less denticulate or rarely quite entire, 1 b to 
3 inches long. 
Spikes oblong or cylindrical, 3 to 6 inches long. 
Bracts with broad flat or scarcely acuminate ends. 
Perianths silky, the tube above 1 inch long, the limb narrow-ovoid. 
Style longer than the perianth, hooked, with a very small stigmatic end. 
Fruiting cone cylindrical like that of B. ericifolia, or longer. 
Capsules thick and scarcely protruding as in that species, but quite glabrous. (B.F1. v, 548.) 
Mr. P. M. Bailey ( Queensland Flora, iv, p. 1360) says that “the typical form 
of B. spinulosa, Sm., so far as at present known, is confined to New South Wales, 
while B. collina, R.Br., besides Queensland, is met with in New South Wales and 
Victoria, but from the examinations of Queensland specimens of B. collina and the 
New South Wales one of B. spinulosa, I find nothing to keep the two as distinct 
species.” As far as New South Wales specimens are concerned, the two species 
seem to be sufficiently different. 
Botanical Name. — Banksia, already explained (see Part VIII, p. 170) ; 
collina, collinus, Latin “of a hill,” hence that which grows in hilly country. The 
type came from “ in collibus apricis ” (hills exposed to the sun), near the sea shore, 
Hunter River. 
Vernacular Name. —A “ Honeysuckle.” I do not know of any qualifying 
adjective applied to it. 
Aboriginal Name. — I know of none. 
