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DRYANDRA FORMOSA. SPLENDID DRYANDRA. 



Class and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Proteace*:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Perianthium 4-partitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina apici- 

 bus concavis laciuiarum immersa. Squamulce hypogynte 4. 

 Ovarium triloculare, loculis monospennis. Folliculus lig- 

 neus: Dissepimento libero, bifido. Receptaculum com- 

 mune planum, floribus indeterminatim confertis; paleis 

 confertis, raro nullis. Involucrum commune imbricatum. — 

 Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami durn adsint sparsi vel 

 umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. incisa, plantce juve- 

 nilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, terminalia raro late- 

 ralia, sessilia^ foliis confertis, interioris quandoque nanis 

 obvallata, hemisphcerica, bracteis adpressis, in quibusdam 

 apiceappendiculatis. Stylus scepe per ianthiovix longior. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dryandra formosa; foliis elongato-linearibus pinnatifidis, 

 lobis scaleno-triangularibus muticis plauis subttis ni- 

 veis, involucris tomentosis, bracteis interioribus line- 

 ari-oblongis, receptaculo paleaceo. Br. 



Dryandra formosa. Br. in Linn. Trans, v. 10. p. 213. t. 

 3. Prodr. Nov. HolL p. 397. 



Mr. Brown detected this noble and handsome species of 

 Dryandra in Lewin's Land, on the South shores of Austra- 

 lia, growing in sterile places, and deemed it worthy of a 

 figure from the pencil of Mr. Bauer, which was published 

 "* the Lmnaean Transactions above quoted. The plant 

 from which our figure was taken is a tree about fourteen 

 feet high, raised from seeds sent home by Mr. Baxter from 



South-west 



vol. xvii. L 



