Dryanpra pteridifolia. Brown in Linn. trans. v. 10. p. 
215. Bjusd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 399. Rom. et Schult. 
| Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 447. ied atte 
(8.) lobis foliorum manifesté trinervibus, basi simplici, 
caule perquam humili, ramis floriferis prasertim pros- 
tratis. 
Dryanpra blechnifolia. Br. in Linn. trans, et Prodr. 
necnon. Rém. et Schult. Syst. Veget. in locis citatis. — 
When Mr. Brown published the first volume of his invaluable Pro- 
dromus, the plant here figured, which was discovered by that very 
eminent Botanist on rocky hills, at King George’s Sound, was regarded 
by him, as possibly a distinct species from another named D. dlechni- 
fola, of which specimens without fructification, and originally gathered 
also on the shores of the Sound, by our highly respected and venerable 
friend Mr. Menzirs, in his voyage with VANCOUVER, were preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium. “A subsequent examination however, of 
: sgt eae specimens, has proved them to be but varieties of one spe- 
cies, differing from each other chiefly in habit, and in some measure in 
the figure of the lobes of the leaves, although in some native specimens 
examined, there is manifestly a disposition to produce the two shapes of 
leaves upon the same plant : 
The present remarkable and variable subject was raised from seeds, 
collected by the late very indefatigable botanic-voyager, Mr.W. Baxter, 
during his first visit to the South-western shores of Australia, in 1823; 
and the specimens transmitted us from Kew, by the liberality of Mr, 
Arron, last spring, were taken from a plant, which we understand, is 
ot only the first that has produced flowers in Britain, but is the only 
example of the species at this time alive in Europe. It may here be 
dded, that for its presence at all in our collections, as indeed for the 
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introduction to England, of many others of the rarer and more beauteous 
of Australian vegetables, cultivators of ornamental exotic plants are en- 
tirely indebted to the disinterested liberality of F. Hencuman, Esq. 
Descr. Our plant in cultivation exhibits the contour of a dwarf, 
bushy shrub, with short, flexuose branches, clothed with a whitish wool. 
Leaves exceedingly rigid, crowded, and pinnatifid ; Jobes alternate, for the 
most part linear, an inch and ‘a half to two inches long, terminated by a 
sharp, rigid mucro, the margins revolute, base dilated, covered on the 
under side with a ferruginous tomentum and nerved, the nerves even- 
tually obsolete ; upper paging of a very dark green and glossy. Flowers 
in terminal heads, surrounded by coloured leaves, of a faint honey-scent. 
Involucre closely imbricated, clothed with a very dense reddish-brown 
tomentum, having the outer bractes elliptical, acuminate, very smooth 
within, and the inner scales linear, covered with orange-coloured appress- 
ed, rigid hairs, pencilled at the apex. Pertanth deeply divided into 
four equal segments, invested with a pink-coloured, curled wool, barer 
towards the base: /amina linear, much longer than the unguis, tipped 
with a pencil-like tuft of soft, spreading hairs. Stamens four, inserted 
in the long, concave extremities of the lamine. Anthers linear, — 
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