C 1582 ] 



Dryandra longifolia. Long-leaved 



Dryandra. 



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Clqfs and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monocynia. 



Generic Char after. — Vide No. 1581. 



Specific Charaffer. 



DRYANDRA longifolia; foliis linearibus pinnatifidis longiflimis 

 acutis fubtus cinereo-tomentofis : bafi attenuata integerrima : 

 \obis triangularibus adfcendentibus decurrentibus margine 

 recur vis, involucri bra&eis elongato-linearibus fubulato 

 accuminatis margine barbatis extus glabris, corollze 

 fperianthii] unguibus bafi lanatis fupra pubefcentibus : 

 laminis pilofiufculis, caule tomentofo. Brown Prod. Nov, 

 Holl. ^.398. Linn. Tranf. v. 10. p. 215. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 

 v. i.p. 221. 



The original Dryandra of Thunberg, being found not 

 to be generically different from Aleurites, previoufly efta- 

 bliflied by Forster, Mr. Brown tells us that he " derived 

 peculiar fatisfaction, in giving the name of his refpecled friend, 

 Mr. Jonas Dryander, to a genus fo nearly allied to Bankfia, 

 from which indeed it differs chiefly in inflorefcence, but in that 

 refpeQ. fo widely as to be at once diftinguilhable : there is alfo 

 fomething in the habit, efpecially in the leaves of the greater 

 number of fpecies, by which, independent of the parts of fructi- 

 fication, trie genus is pretty certainly indicated, and it is worthy 

 °f notice, that, while Bankfia is generally fpread over all the 

 coaft of New-Holland, and of Van Diemen's Ifland, Dryandra 

 has hitherto been obferved only on that part of the fouth coaft, 

 called Lewin's Land, where, however, its fpecies are nearly as 

 numerous and abundant as thofe of Bankfia itfelf *." This is as 



Linn. Tranf. r, 10. p. txt. 



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