No. 131. 
Banksia marginata, Cav. 
“Honeysuckle” or “Warrock.” 
(Family PROTEACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Banksia. (See Part VIII, p. 169.) 
Botanical description. —Species, B. marginata , Cay., Anal. Hist. Nat. i 227 t 
13, Ic. vi. 29, t. 544 (1800). 
Usually a bushy shrub of 10 to 15 feet, growing out sometimes into a tree of considerable size, or 
sometimes low and straggling or depressed, the branches tomentose or villous. 
Lm 0i f the flowe ™g branches very shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate or broadly linear, obtuse 
or retuse, usually entire, with recurved margins, 1 to 2 inches long, in some flowerless 
branches or even on some flowering specimens some or all rather larger and more or less 
serrate with short rigid or prickly teeth, all very white underneath, minutely reticulate, 
without any or with very few of the transverse veins of B. integrifolia. 
,S>,- fes oblong cylindrical, 2 or 3 or ra re Iy near 4 inches long, or in the dwarf varieties sometimes 
nearly globular and small. 
Bracts tomentose at the end. 
Perianths silky, 7 to 8 lines long. 
Style straightening after the perianth-laminae have separated, and'usually very spreading or 
reflexed, with a small slender stigmatic end. 
Fruiting cone oblong-cylindrical; capsules prominent above the closely packed bracts, flat not 
thick, rounded, \ inch broad, at first pubescent, but the hairs wearing off. 
It appears from R. Brown’s labels that he had originally referred all his southern specimens to 
B. marginata, and the characters upon which he afterwards thought he could distinguish 
foui southern species failed so completely when applied to the large number of specimens we 
now possess that I have felt obliged to return to his original views. As a whole the species 
ffers from B. integrifolia, generally in the smaller leaves and flowers and in the leaves 
leticulate only without transverse veins. In some specimens, however, some of the leaves 
how a few of these veins ; especially when toothed there is often one entering into each 
Loocn. (±5. ±4. v, ooo.) 
Botanical Name. — Banksia , already explained (see Part VIII, p. 170) • 
marginata, Latin, margined, in reference to the well-defined margins of the leaves. ’ 
Vernacular Names—“ Honeysuckle ” is the name commonly applied to 
this and other species of Banksia. 
