William Jackson Hooker

“ Perianth or Calyx glabrous, greenish yellow,
with the tube slender, filiform, the upper half separating
into four segments, spathulate and concave at the extremity,
and, in the hollow, bearing, each, a solitary anther. Style
scarcely longer than the perianth, filiform, yellow. Stigma
simple. ”

“ Banksia marcescens; foliis cuneiformibus planis sparsis
truncatis extra medium dentato-serratis: basi acutius-
cula, ramis tomentosis, calcycibus persistentibus folli-
culisque glabris. Br.
Banksia marcescens; Br. in. Linn. Trans. v. 10 p. 208
Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 395 Sweet Fl. Austr. ”