Specimens of all the plants we are about to defcribe in this
work,= Dr. Gaertneri in his admirable book'on fruits and
feeds, has figured the fruit of feveral Bankjias, fome of them
deferibed by Linnaeus. Having -had hi,s plates,,with, the
names, engraved before he faw the Supflementum of Linncea’s^
his nomenclature differs from that^Y the laffc mentioned
author; but he quotes 7 his lyrionyttis' irr the letter; prefs,
We mentipn-this, that he may not'4>ev&ccufed of wantonly
changing | Linnaan - names, - and that- for the, warfe, as it;
would appear to any-'one uninformed of this<cirtumftance.
The fchaiadter o f .the.’ :genus;is very- badlymiade out in
Unntsusi7 \v Gmrtner has greatly co.rreftedit,' but it is ftill
a qpi|bt.whether the'fforyefs;’2ire conffantly ptopppetalous or
myapSfakm^f- '. hot;; hayj|Wwie7 A6 ; remove
this -difficulty. . A l l ' we canofay. is,j that' Btfnkjia ’ is next in
natural, arrangement to.Pjv&aj f^m which it-is:effeatially
diftinguiffied by having an.; har'dV: Woody bivalve capfule,.
containing two iwinged deeds* witha moveable membranous;
partition between them., It is’ ftrarigely .mifplaced in
Murray s 14th edition of Syftema Vegetabilium\bt\n<g put
betweenLWdfyigi&%pd Qfflenlandicil.
Mr. White has jfent 'imfeifeff fpecimens and; feeds of
four