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. [Illustration] PLATE CLVII. CORDIA SEBESTENA. _Rough-leaved Cordia._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, apice dentatum, persistens. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis: tubus patulus, longitudine calycis; limbus erecto-patens, sectus in quinque (quatuor vel sex), lacinias obtusas. STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, subulata. Antheræ oblongæ, longitudine tubi. PISTILLUM. Germen subrotundum, acuminatum. Stylus simplex, longitudine staminum, superne bifidus, laciniis bifidis. Stigmata obtusa. PERICARPIUM. Drupa globosa, acuminata, calyce accreta. SEMEN. Nux sulcata, quadrilocularis. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, tubular, toothed at the upper part, remaining. BLOSSOM one petal, funnel-shaped; tube widening, the length of the cup; border upright and spreading, cut into five (four or six) obtuse segments. CHIVES. Five threads, awl-shaped. Tips oblong, the length of the tube. POINTAL. Seed-bud roundish, tapered. Shaft simple, the length of the chives, two-cleft at the upper part, segments two-cleft. Summits blunt. SEED-VESSEL, pulpy, globular, tapered, growing to the cup. SEED. A furrowed, four-celled nut. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cordia foliis oblongo-ovatis, scabris; floribus miniatis, crispis, hexandris. Cordia with oblong egg-shaped rough leaves; flowers deep orange colour, crumpled, and with six chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Blossom spread open, with the Chives in their place. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud.