id 
BANKSIA marcescens. 
Short-leaved Banksia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, PROTEACEA, Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46. 
BANKSIA. Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum), Stamina apicibus con- 
eavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypogyne 4, Ovarium biloculare, loculis mono- 
spermis. Folliculus ligneus: dissepimento libero, bifido, Amentum flosculorum paribus 
tribracteatis !—Frutices v. Arbores via excelse. Rami umbellati. Folia Sparsa, raré ver- 
ticillata, integra, serrata v. pinnatifido-incisa, in eddem stirpe quandoque varia, in planté 
juvenili v. mutilaté sepé serrata vel incisa, dum in adult et illest integerrima. Amenta 
solitaria, terminalia, rard lateralia, bracteolis nonnullis brevibus angustis subtensa, cylindra- 
cea, in quibusdam abbreviata. Bractez flosculorum persistentes ; majores sulitarie ; minores 
geminata, collaterales, interiores. Amenti fructiteri rachis ut plurimum incrassata et cum 
folliculorum basibus conferruminata..Semina nigra, apice cuneato-alata, nucleo in lucund re- 
spondenti dissepimenti lignei semiimmerso. Brown prodr, p-391, 
Sect. I. Stylus perianthio longior, hinc unguibus citids solutis arcuatim exsertus, 
Stigma laminis tardiis dehiscentibus inclusum. Amentum Jioriferum cylindraceum, fruc- 
tiferum folliculis transversis pluribus, BANKSI® VERA, 

B. marcescens, foliis cuneiformibus planis sparsis truncatis extra medium dentato-ser- 
ratis: basi acutiuscula, ramis tomentosis, perianthiis persistentibus folliculisque 
glabris, Brown prodr, p.395. 
Banksia marcescens. Brown Linn. trans. 10. p.208. Hort, Kew. ed. 2.0.1. p» 217. Rem. 
et Schult, syst. 3. p.441. Spreng. syst. veg. 1. p. 485. 
Banksia premorsa, Andrews, reposit. 258. Pers. syn.1. p.116. Poir.enc. meth. supp. 1. 
p. 570. 
Banksia aspleniifolia, Salish, in Knight’s Prot. p.113. excl, syn. 
A stout bushy evergreen shrub, sometimes attaining the 
height of 8 or 10 feet, but seldom seen above 2 or 3 feet high in 
our collections: branches spreading, clothed with a short dense 
tomentum. Leaves scattered or alternate, short, flat, truncate at 
the points, but terminated in a rigid horny mucro, slightly pu- 
bescent on the upper side, and clothed underneath with little 
tufts of short down, reticulately veined, the nerves at first densely 
clothed with a rusty tomentum, which wears off by age, attenu- 
ated and entire at the base, but toothed from about the middle 
with sharp horny teeth. Petzoles short, thickened at the base, 
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