'The Banksia pyriformis' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Interior view of the Rotunda

Interior view of the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

all wearing very superior and sanctimonious expressions

pointing towards the stout railway director

Rick Ocasek

'The Banksia pyriformis' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Interior view of the RotundaBotanical study of the woody pear (Xylomelum pyriforme) a tree native to Australia and first collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Plate 21 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text describes this plant as 'Banksia with solitary flowers, ovate downy capsules, and lance shaped entire smooth leaves'. The plate is inscribed: 'The Banksia pyriformis. Published as the Act