C L A S S IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
lieceplaculum commune elongatum, fcmamofum.
Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo infería.
Capfula bivalvis, clifperma, interj
c í i o feminibus díifepimento mobili. Semina
alata.
Common Receptacle elongated, fcaly. Bloflbm
of four petals. Chives inferted into the l i mb
of the blolfom. Capfnle two valves, two
feeds, and a moveable partition between
them. Seeds winged.
See B A N K S I A SERRATA, PI. L X X X I I . Vol. I I .
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Bankfia foliis cunealis pnsmorfis, ferratis, fubtus
albo-punctatis, fupra glabris; floribus externe
purpureis.
Bankfia with wedge-fhaped leaves, appearing
bitten at the ends, fawed, dotted w i t h white
on the under part, finooth on the upper;
flowers purple on the outride.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower not yet expanded, w i t h the g e rm at t h e bafe.
2. T h e fame open, the extremities of o n e of t h e petals magnified, to thew
the fituation of t h e Chive in its place.
3 . The Pointal complete, the fummit magnified.
T H E firft plants which were feen of this plant in England, were raifed from feeds, at the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in 1788. It is a bandfome growing ihrub, and t h e plant from which our figure was made
had grown to t h e height of feven f e e t ; it having been planted in the confervatory of the Clapham
collection, w h e r e it flowered, for t h e firft time, this year, in J u l y , c o n t i n u i n g in high beauty near two
months. It is a plant of mofi difficult increafe, rarely t h a t it is to be propagated by c u t t i n g s ; and
t h e wood rots, if laid into t h e earth. A light foil, of fandy peat, and a final! portion of fandy Joam
appears mofi congenial to its g r o w t h . There are hopes, from the p e r f e ñ Hate of the cones, that r i pé
feeds may be procured in this country.
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B A N K S I A PRJ5MOESA.
Bitten-ended-leaved Bankfia.