BANKSIA

(Lat.),n. £. Ba?n?ks’i?-a’. Fr., banksie. After Sir Joseph Banks, an English botanist and expe 1. Australian honey-suckle; a ioe of proteaceous plants belonging to the tribe Banksieæ, established by Linnæus the younger, 2. Of Dombey, the genus Cuphea. 3. Of Forster, the genus Pimelea. [B, 42, 121.]—B. aby inica. An erroneous spelling for Bankesia aby inica (q. v.). [B,5. 173). asp len i folia. 1. Of Salisbury, the B. integrifolia. 3. Of Knight, the B. marcescens. (B21 8 ‘colin a [R. Brown). An Australian shrub, 8 to 12 feet in height, from the flowers of which exudes a liquid like that from B. eric i folia. [B, 185, 219.|—B. compar [R. Brown]. A long deaved variety of B. integrifotia. [B, 219.] —B. Cunning ham i [Sieb.]. See B. coltina.—B. erlcifolia [Linneeus fil.]. An Australian shrub or small tree 12 to 14 feet high. The yellow silky flowers contain an abundance of sweet liquid which collects in pools upon the ground beneath the tree. [B, 219.]— B. gibbosa [Smith]. The Hakea gibbosa. f, 219.]—B. integrifolia [Linnæus fil.|. An Australian tree with closely tomentose branches, scattered or verticillate, oblong-cuneate or lanceolate, short-petiolate leaves, and oblong or cylindrical Gib a of flowers. The latter secrete a honey-like exudation like the B. eric i folia. [B, 19, 219.]—B. macrophylla {ink See B. integrifolia.—B. marcescens [R. Brown]. An Australian shrub 5 to 6 feet high with oblong, truncate, serrate, petiolate leaves, and oblong or cylindrical spikes of purple flowers. The root is said to be used as an emetic under the name of ipecacuanha. [B, 173, 219.]—B. margin at a Cavanilles]. A straggling shrub or small tree growing in Australia. B, 219.|—B. oleifolia [Cavanilles], B. paludosa [R. Brown]. See B. integrifolia.—B. pinifelia [Mei ner]. See B. sphærocarpa.— _B. præmors a. 1, Of Andrews, see B, marcescens, 2. See B. margin at a,—B. prionophylla [F. Mueller]. See B. collina.—B. speciosa. 1. A name ered to two Australian species of B. (1st def.). 2. A faulty spelling of the Banksea speciosa. BB. sphærocarpa [R. Brown]. An Australian shrub 3 or 4 feet high, hoary-tomentose and with linear, obtuse, entire leaves and lobula spikes of flowers. [B, 219.]—B. spicata [Gaertner]. See. integrifolia.