villous, narrow, abruptly reflexed, about 3 lines long, ending in a plumose awn-like point of ½ in. or more. Style remaining curved, with a narrow acute stigmatic end. Capsules concealed among the dense perianth-remains, very thick, glabrous, smooth, 1¼ to 1½ in. broad.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 460; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 107.
W. Australia. King George's Sound or the neighbouring districts, Baxter, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 303. The long fine points to the perianth-laminæ forming awn-like ends to the limb before it opens, are quite peculiar to this and the preceding species.
Sect. 3. Eubanksia.—Leaves linear-lanceolate oblong or cuneate, with recurved or revolute entire or dentate margins, white underneath. Style at first curved. straight and very spreading or reflexed after the perianth-limb has opened, the stigmatic end very small, not furrowed.
The three species here included, divided into many more by R. Brown, Meissner and others, are so closely allied and so frequently connected by intermediates, that they might almost be considered as varieties of a single one.
24. B. marginata, Cav. Anal. Hist. Nat. i. 227, t. 13. Ic. vi. 29; t. 544. Usually a bushy shrub of 10 to 15 ft., growing out sometimes into a tree of considerable size or sometimes low and straggling or depressed, the branches tomentose or villous. Leaves of the flowering branches very shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate or broadly linear, obtuse or retuse, usually entire, with recurved margins, 1 to 2 in. long, in some flowerless branches or even on some flowering specimens some or all rather larger and more or less serrate with short rigid or prickly teeth, all very white underneath, minutely reticulate, without any or with very few of the transverse veins of B. integrifolia. Spikes oblong-cylindrical, 2 to 3 or rarely near 4 in. long, or in the dwarf varieties sometimes nearly globular and small. Bracts tomentose at the end. Perianths silky, 7 to 8 lines long. Style straightening after the perianth-laminæ have separated, and usually very spreading or reflexed, with a small slender stigmatic end. Fruiting cone oblong-cylindrical; capsules prominent above the closely packed bracts, flat, not thick, rounded, ½ in. broad, at first pubescent but the hairs wearing off.—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 204, Prod. 392, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 455; Bot. Mag. t. 1947; B. microstachya, Cav. Anal. Hist. Nat. i. 224, Ic. vi. 28, t. 541 (specimens with serrate leaves); B. marginata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 61, and B. oblongifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 241, not of others (both with serrate leaves); B. australis, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 206; Prod. 393; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 456; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 329; Bot. Reg. t. 787; B. depressa, B. patula and B. insularis, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 205, 206, Prod. 393; Meissn. l.c. 456; B. Gunnii, Meissn. l.c.
