Tas. 7642, 
DRYANDRA caLopHyLta. 
Native of King George’s Sound. 
Nat. Ord. ProtEacr#.—Tribe BANKSIEx. 
Genus Dryanpra, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 185.) 
Dryanpra (Aphragmia) calophylla ; fruticulus depressus, caule petiolis costis 
foliorum subtus bracteis extus receptaculoque villis rubro-aurantiacis 
dense vestitis, caule brevi crasso, foliis pedalibus stellatim patentibus 
breviter petiolatis coriaceis linearibus pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis, supra 
glabris nervis subtus sparsim rufo-villosis, pinnis lobisve 30-50 3-1} poll. 
longis triangulari-ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve obtusis 3-5-nerviis inferiori- 
bus sensim minoribus, sinubus acutis v. obtusis, petiolo brevi basi 
incrassato, floribus in capitulum basi involucratum 2-3 poll. diam. 
congestis aureis, receptaculo longe villoso, involucri bracteis exterioribus 
elongatis foliaceis, interioribus parvis ovatis, perianthii 1}-14 poll. longi 
tubo brevi angusto sericeo, lobis lineari-elongatis obtusis aureo-villosis, 
saepe rubro tinctis, antheris linearibus cuspidatis, ovario glabro, stylo 
perianthio longiore, stigmate elongato cylindraceo apice oblique trun- 
cato. 
D. calophylla, Br. Prodr. Suppl. I. Proteacex, p. 40. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
vol, xiv. p. 481. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 583. 
D. Drummondii, Meissn. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. ii. p. 267, et in DC. Le. 
The genus Dryandra, of which forty-seven species are 
described in Bentham’s Flora Australiensis, is one of the 
most. striking proofs of the endemic character of the 
Western Australian Flora, not a single species being found 
elsewhere in the Australian continent. Of these nine are 
enumerated in Aiton’s ‘“‘ Hortus Kewensis,’ as being in cul- 
tivation in the Royal Gardens in 1810, almost all of them 
raised from seeds collected in 1802-3 by Peter Good, the 
gardener who accompanied Brown on Flinder’s voyage. 
None of these now exist at Kew. Nine species have pre- 
viously been figured in this Magazine, the last, D. nobilis, 
tab. 4633, so early as 1852, an evidence of the decline 
of interest once taken in the cultivation of Australian 
plants. 
D. calophylla was raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 
seeds presented by Messrs. Veitch in 1893, and flowered in 
_ the Temperate House in May, 1898. | 
Deser.—A small depressed shrub. Stem very short, 
erect, or prostrate, thickly clothed with thick. bright, 
Marcu Ist, 1899, 
