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BANKSIA dryandroides. 
Dryandra-like Banksia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. PROTEACE. Brown Linn, trans. 10. p. 46. 
BANKSIA, Supra fol, 14. 
Sect. I. Stylus perianthio longior, hinc unguibus citits solutis arcuatim exsertus. 
Stigma laminis tardits dehiscentibus inclusum. Amentum floriferum cylindraceum, fruc- 
tiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. BANKSIE VER. Brown prodr, p, 391. 
B. dryandroides, foliis linearibus pinnatifidis: lobis isoscelo-triangularibus acutis mu- 
cronulatis margine recurvis, spicis brevibus pedunculatis lateralibus, bracteis to- 
mentosis, perianthii unguibus sericeis: laminis lanatis, stylo glaberrimo, stigmate 
capitato. 
Banksia dryandroides. Baxter in Mackay Mss. catal. Swt. hort. brit. p, 350. 
A handsome, stout, upright, evergreen Shrub: branches nu- 
merous, spreading, or ascending, thickly clothed with short, close, 
brown wool, and numerous short stiff hairs intermixed; when 
young, ferruginous, or rust colour, but at length becoming paler. 
Leaves rigid, alternate, spreading, pinnatifid, linear, of a glossy 
green on the upper side, but hairy when young, becoming quite 
smooth by age; underneath ferruginous on some leaves, on 
others, of a greyish white: /eaflets equally triangular, sharp- 
pointed, and ending in a short horny mucro, the margins re- 
curved, upper side of a glossy green, underneath densely clothed 
with a close pressed white tomentum, which in some is ferrugi- 
nous. Rachis or midrib rigid, terminated in a blunt point, 
thickly clothed with short wool, and entangled rusty brown hairs. 
Spikes of Flowers short, lateral, proceeding from the old shoots, 
or the main stem, seated on leafless peduncles that are clothed 
with short rusty down.. Bractes short, ovate, acute, densely 
clothed with rusty brown woolly hairs. Pertanthium 4-parted ; 
the unguis slender, and thickly clothed with short white silky 
hairs, that are nearly close pressed, or but slightly spreading: 
