Tab. 4317 . 
DRYANDRA CARDUACEA ; var. ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
Thistle-like Dryandra j narrow-leaved variety. 
Nat. Ord. Proteace^.—Tetrandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium 4-partitum v. 4-fiduin. Stamina apicibiis concavis 
laciniarum immersa. Squamulce liypogynae 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis 
monospermis. Folliculus ligneus: dissepimento libero, bifido. Peceptaculum 
commune planum, floribus indeterminatim confertis : paleis an^stis, raro nullis. 
Involucrum commune imbricatum. — Prutices plerumque humiles. Kami dum 
adsint sparsi v. umhellati. Polia sparsa, pinnatifida v. incisa, plants juvenilis 
conformia. Tnvolucra solitaria, terminalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, 
interioribus quandoque nanis obvallata, hemispheerica, bracteis adpressis, in qui- 
busdam apice appendiculatis. seepe perianthio vix longior. Br. 
Dryandra carduacea ; ramis pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis remote sinuato- 
spinoso-dentatis versus basin nunc spinoso-pinnatifidis, supra glabris 
subtus niveo-tomentosis, involucri glabri (floribus triplo rainoris) foliolis 
arete imbricatis erectis subulatis exterioribus latioribus nunc basin versus 
spinosis interioribus longioribus apice ciliatis, perianthiis sericeis, stylo 
basi glabro, stigmate parvo oblongo obtuso. 
Dryandra carduacea. Lindl. Swan River Bot. p. xxxiii. Meissn. in PI. Prelss. 
p. 691. 
S- angustifolia ; foliis angustioribus. Tab. nostr. 4.317. 
A Swan River species of Dryandra, discovered by Mr. 
raond, and reared in the Royal Gardens of Kew from seeds sen 
by that indefatigable and most successful botanist. Our living 
plants in the Proteaceous House only differ from dried ones in 
having narrower leaves. It flowers in the spring months. 
Descr. Our Dlants are three feet high, erect, much branched; 
the branches terete, the young ones downy. scattered, 
rather distant, sessile, lanceolate, in our variety linear-lanceolate, 
spreading and recurved, harsh and rigid, remotely smua o- 
dentate, the teeth broad, decuxrent, tipped with a sharp spine or 
mucro, and the leaf terminated by the same: the base is some¬ 
times entire, sometimes almost pinnatifid with lather ong spinous 
teeth: the upper surface is indistinctly veined, dark 
glabrous, the underside clothed with compact white down Ihe 
capitula terminate short branches, and are surrounde , as i were, 
AUGUST 1st, 1847. 
