BANKSIA PYRIFORMIS, in botany, is a species of BANKSIA, which see. It was unknown to Linnaeus; and Gaertner, who has mentioned it, gives no specific character of it. It has solitary flowers, ovate downy capsules, and lance-shaped entire smooth leaves. The capsules larger than in any other known species. See White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, p. 221—225.