Tas. 4633. _ 
DRYANDRA wnositis. 
Handsome Dryandra. 
Nat. Ord. Protracra.—TeEtranpRIA Monoeyntia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4317.) 
mate cylindrico sulcato obtusiusculo. 
Preiss. v. 1. p. 592. 
handsome shrub. 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1852. 
DrranpRa nobilis; ramis villosis, foliis petiolatis elongato-linearibus, lobis isos- 
: celo-triangularibus submucronato-acutis decurrenti-subconfluentibus mar- 
gine recurvis supra levibus glabris subtus plurinerviis reticulatis cano- 
tomentosis, capitulis lateralibus (seu ramo brevi terminalibus), involueri 
foliolis exterioribus foliaceis serratis interioribus membranaceis oblongis 
recurvis intus glabris striatis capitulo multo brevioribus, calyce supra basin 
glabrum lanato laminis sericeis apice barbatis, stylo preelongo glabro, stig- 
Dryanpra nobilis. Lindl. Swan River Bot. p. xxxviii. n.158. Meisn. in Pl. 
Reared from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond from the Swan 
River settlement. We can scarcely doubt its being the D. nobilis 
of Lindley and of the ‘Plante Preissiane ;’ yet our flowering 
plant, in May 1851, was considered by Dr. Meisner (author of 
the Proteacee of the last-mentioned work) as a new species, 
which he proposed to call Dryandra runcinata. Itis a really 
Descr. Our plants have attained a height of about four feet 
(they reach seven fect, according to Preiss), and are erect, much 
branched; the éranches woolly, copiously clothed with leaves 
@ span or more long, spreading, recurved, hard, coriaceous, pe- 
tiolate, pinnatifid almost to the midrib; the /odes ovate, acute, 
runcinato-recurved and very decurrent, tipped with a mucro ; 
the leaves are dark green above, and glabrous, below veiny and 
white with dense compact fomentum. Capitula large, yellow, 
on short lateral dranches. Outer leaves of the involucre folia- 
ceous, lobed or serrated. Sepals glabrous at the base, woolly 
above, bearded at the apex. Style filiform, much longer than 
the sepals. Stigma elongated, nearly cylindrical. W. J. H. 
