Volume 3 — PLATE CLVI. BANKSIA ERICÆFOLIA. Heath-leaved Banksia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Receptaculum commune elongatum, squamosum. Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo inserta. Capsula bivalvis, disperma, interjecto seminibus dissepimento mobili. Semina alata.

Common receptacle elongated, scaly. Blossom of four petals. Chives inserted into the limb of the blossom. Capsule with two valves, two seeds, and a moveable partition between them. Seeds winged.

See Banksia serrata, Pl. LXXXII. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Banksia foliis linearibus, margine revolutis, truncato-emarginatis, supra glabris.

Banksia with linear leaves, rolled back at the edge, appearing cut off at the ends, which are notched and smooth on the upper side.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Blossom complete.

2. The same spread open.

3. The Petals of a flower, with their chives magnified.

4. The Pointal natural size, with the Summit detached, magnified.

5. The rudiments of a cone, cleared from the flowers.

The seeds of this species of Banksia were amongst the first which arrived from New Holland, and plants were raised at the nursery, Hammersmith, in the same year as the B. serrata. To the directions in the management and increase of which plant, we refer our readers for the treatment of this, as it requires no other. It grows to the height of five, or six feet, very bushy from the bottom, and the leaves, which are harsh and numerous, are not very subject to decay. Although it has flowered in many collections, where we have seen it, we have had no opportunity of making an accurate drawing until last month, March 1801, from a fine plant in the collection of G. Hibbert Esq. Clapham.