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DR Y ANDRA longifolia.
Long-leaved Dryandra.
Linnean Classand Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. PRÔTEACEÆ. Brown linn, trans. 10. p. 46,
Tribus II. Fructus dehiscens.—B. Bilocularis, dissepimento libero, bifido.
DRYANDRA. Perianthium quadripartitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina apicibus con-
cavis laciniarum immersa. Squamula bypogynæ 4. Ovarium bilocnlare, loculis mono-
spermis. Follieulus ligneus: Dissepimento libero, bifido. Receptaculum commune planum,
fioribns indeterminatim confertis ; pate is angnstis raro nnllis. Involucrum commune im-
bricatum.—Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint sparsi vel umbellati. Folia sparsa,
pinnatifida v. incisa, planta juvenilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, terminalia, rard late-
ralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus quandoque nanis obvallata, hemispharica, bracteis
adpressis, in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sapé perianthio vixlongior. Brown
prodr. 1. p. 396.
D. longifolia, foliis linearibus pinnatifidis longissimis acutis subtùs cinereo-tomentosis
basi attenuatà integerrimâ : lobis triangularibus adscendentibus decurrentibus
margine recurvis, invoiucri bracteis elongato-linearibus subulato-acuminatis mar-
gine barbatis extùs glabris, perianthii ungnibns basilanatis supra pubescentibus :
laminis pilosiusculis, caule tomentoso. Brown l.c.p. 398.
Dryandra longifolia. Brown linn, trans. 10. p. 215. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 221. Botan.
magaz. 1582. Ram. et Schult, syst. 3. p. 446. Spreng, syst. 1. p. 487.
A stout handsome evergreen Shrub, sometimes attaining the
height of ten or twelve feet, and well clothed with branches,
which are tomentose, except some of the old ones where the
tomentum is worn off. Leaves numerous, rigid, variable in
length, some a foot long, and others not half that length, pin-
natifid, acute, smooth and green on the upper side, underneath
clothed with a grey tomentum, attenuated into a sort of footstalk
at the base, and entire, the bottom a little dilated : lobes
triangular, retieulately veined underneath, ascending, acute and
tipped with a short cartilaginous point, the margins recurved. Involucre of numerous bractes, which are unequal in length,
imbricate, surrounding the head of flowers, linear, acute, more
or less taper-pointed, outside smooth and glossy, margins and
points bearded: inner ones erect, outer ones more or less
spreading. Flowers crowded in a close head, straw-coloured. Receptacle chaffy. Perianthium 4-parted : laciniee narrow,