BANKSIA marcescens.
Short-leaved Banksia.
Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. PROTEACEÆ. Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46.
BANKSIA. Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum). Stamina apicibus con-
cavis laciniarum immersa. Squamulce hypogynæ 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis mono-
spermis. Folliculus ligneus : dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus
tribracteatis !—Frutices v. Arbores vix excelsoe. Rami umbellati. Folia sparsa, raràver-
ticillata, integra, serrata v. pinnatifido-incisa, in eâdem stirpe quandoque varia, in plantâ
juvenili v. mutilatâ soepè serrata vel incisa, dum in adultâ et illtesâ integerrimà. Amenta
solitaria, terminalia, ravd lateralia, bracteolis nonnullis brevibus angustis subtensa, cylindra-
cea, in quibusdam abbreviata. Bracteæ flosculorum persistentes ; majores solitaries ; minores
geminatoe, collaterales, interiores. Amenti fructiferi rachis ut plurimum incrassMa et cum
folliculorum basibUs conferruminata. Semina nigra, apice cuneato-alata, nucleo in lacunâre-
spöndenti dissepimenti lignei semiimmerso. Brown prodr. p• 391.
Sect. I. Stylus perianthio longior, hinc unguïbus citiûs solutis arcuatim exsertus.
Stigma laminis tardiûs dehiscentibus inclusum• Amentum fioriferum cylindraceum, fruc-
tiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. Banksiæ vekæ.
B* marcescens, foliis cuneiformibus planis sparsis truncatis extra medium dentato-sei-
ratis: basi acutiusculä, ramis tomentosis, perianthiis persistentibus folliculisque
Bankgsliaab rmisa. rcBersocwenns p. rBordor.w pn. 3L9in5n. . trans. 10. p. 208. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.v.l. p. 21T. Rce"iti.
et Schult. syst. 3. p. 441. Spreng, syst. veg. 1. p. 485.
Banksia praemorsa. Andrews, reposit. 258. Pers. syn. 1. p. 116. Poir. enc. metli. supp. 1.
Bankps. i5a7 a0s.pleniifolia. Salisb. in Knightfs 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
ourcollections : 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 pubescent
on the upper side, and clothed underneath with little
tufts of short down, reticulatelv veined, the nerves at first densely
clothed with a rusty tomentum, which wears off by age, attenuated
and entire at the base, but toothed from about the middle
with sharp horny teeth. Petioles short, thickened at the base,
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