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DR Y ANDRA nervosa.
Nerved-leaved Dryandra.
Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. PROTEACEÆ. Perianthium tetraphyllmn v. qiiadrifidum, æsti-
vatione valvatà. Stconina quatuor, (altero nuuc sterili,) foliolis perianthii opposita.
Ovarium unicum, liberum. Stylus simplex. Stigmasulündivisuin. Semen (pericarpü
varii) exalbuminosum. Embryo dicotyledoneus (quandoque polycotyledoneus), reo
tus. Radicula inféra.Tribus II. Brown prodr.l. p. 363. F ructus dehiscens.—B. Bilocularis, dissepimento libero, bifido.
DRYANDRA. Suprafol.3.
D. nervosa, foliis pinnatifidis subtus ferrugineo-tomentosis : lobis lanceolatis acutis
mueronatis margine et apice subrecurvis basi dilatatis subtus nervosis, ramis
brevibus tomentosis, involucris tomentosis : bracteis exterioribus ovatis interiori-
bus linearibus margine barbatis, perianthii unguibus ferrugineo-lanatis : laminis
linearibus longissimis apice barbatis, foliieulis glabris venosis.
Dryandra nervosa. Mackay Mss. catal. Swt. hort. brit.p. 350.
A very handsome dwarf bushy evergreen shrub: branches
short, densely clothed with short white wool. Leaves very rigid,
numerous, crowded, spreading out horizontally, pinnatifid, of a
glossy dark green on the upper side, and clothed with a ferruginous
tomentum underneath; when young also thickly clothed
with rusty hairs on the upper side, those soon drop off: lobes
or segments variable on different leaves, dilated at the base,
those on the lower leaves broadest and nearly ovate, on the up
per ones lanceolate, all acute, and terminated by a sharp horny
mucro, the points more or less recurved, the margins also
slightly recurved, strongly nerved with longitudinal nerves underneath,
which vary in number according to the breadth of the
lobes, every other nerve smaller; lower lobes much smaller
than the others, becoming gradually longer upwards, and decreasing
again towards the point. Flowers in terminal heads,
distinctly spreading, closely surrounded by leaves, of a straw-
colour, but clothed with a ferruginous pubescence, which gives
them a rich brown tinge, of a slight alliaceous scent, not so much
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