[Named after Sir Joseph Banks.] A genus of Australian shrubs, with umbellate flowers, cultivated as ornamental shrubs in Europe.
1803. Malthus, Popul., I. iii. (1806), I. 34. The flowers of the different banksias.
1873. Dawson, Earth & Man, viii. 200. Trees now confined to Australia … as the banksias.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, v. Bars of sunshine chequered by some Banksian sprays.
