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BANKSIA  paludosa. 
Marsh- Banksia. | 
TaN MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Proves. Jussieu gen.79. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus 
af monospermus. 
ee Se ProtEeAcem. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 46. Div. IT, — 
Fructus dehiscens. Sect. B. Bilocularis, dissepimento libero bifido. Sub- 
sect. 1. Amentum paribus flosculorum tribracteatis. » ian 
_ BANKSIA. Supra vol. 8. fol. 688. 
Div. I. Stylus corollé longior, hine unguibus citins solutis arcuatim exsertus. 
Stigma laminis tardiis dehiscentibus inclusum. Amentum floriferum 
cylindraceum, fructiferum folliculis transversis -pluribus. ANKSIZ 
VER. Brown prod. 1. 391. om 
B. paludosa, foliis subverticillatis cuneato-oblongis subtruncatis basi attenu- 
~ -atis extra medium dentato-serratis margine subrecurvis: subtis costatis 
reticulato-venosis, petiolis ramulisque glabris, corollis sericeis, caule fru- 
ticoso. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 208. 
Banksia paludosa. Ejusd. prod. 1. 394. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 216. 
Frutex 3-pedalis v. ultra, erectus. Folia coriaceo-rigentia, truncialia v. 
circiter latitudine % uncie v. circa, laxits disposita, superiora ternatim qua- 
ternatimve approximata. _ Amenta terminalia, solitaria, elongato-cylindrica 
(4-uncialia cum diametro unciali v. majore), ab effuso melle tactui sub- 
viscida. Bractex imz extraflorales majores, inequales, elongate, pauce, 
appresse, fusce, crasse, obtuse, tomentose : interflorales ferrugineo-hirsute. 
or. semunciam paulo eacedens, unguibus viridi-lutescentibus pallidis, lami- 
nis ovali-oblongis fulvis. Stylus pallidus, glaber, apice vix tumidus, corol- 
lam ferme non exsuperans, stigmate brevi conico via crassiore glabro obtuso 
albido. 
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Introduced by Mr. Brown in 1805, who found it in the 
marshes of Botany Bay, within a few miles of Port Jack- 
son, where however it is far from abundant and may be 
reckoned one of the rarer species. In this country it has 
seldom flowered, and we are obliged to Mr. Miller, nursery- 
man at Bristol, for the communication of the only live 
sample we have ever seen in bloom. 
An upright shrub somewhat more than three feet high 
with smooth branches and petioles. Leaves partly scatter- 
ed, partly whorled, leathery, stiff, about three inches long 
by 3 of an inch broad, cuneately oblong, somewhat trun- 
cated, tapered at the lower part, toothedly sawed, the in- 
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