e 
578 CIV. PROTEACEJE. ; em 
o fie lanceolate or "rnit rigid and evene often 
mb. 
Style not Buch longer than the perianth, with a small slightly clavate 
stigmatic end. Capsule about 4 in. long, densely villous. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 1 This and the following species have 
the involucres and flowers almost of the Concinn 
33. D. patens, Benth. A branching shrub, nearly allied to D. 
Hewardiana, but with the fewer more spreading floral leaves of the 
cinne and erent involucre. Leaves 4 to 10 in. long, deeply 
pinnatifid, the lobes lanceolate or triangular, very rigid and Lem e d 
poets mostly distant, with recurv ved margins, white undern 
ower-heads mA; sessile or Mo pedunculate. Involucre cam- 
Ei te, under 4 in. long as in D. Hewardiana, ice tomentose not 
ing the peri, with a small. bowl clavate sti 
ci 
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 341. 
4. D. conferta, Benth. A shrub Miner: low, but with the stout 
erect stems of D. cirsioides and its allies. Leaves rowded, narrow, 9 to 
6 in. long, pinnatifid, the lobes rather PAS an pungent-pointed, 
white underneath with revolute margins as nD. Henardiana. 
heads axillary, closely eras “by. op; floral leaves. Involucre 
ovoid, villous and perhaps somewhat viscid, nearly 3 in. long, the bracts 
numerous, narrow- lanceolate or linear, obtuse or scarcel je closely 
yee Perens, do coll. n. 295. cimens referred by 
Meissner to D. patens (D. concinna, 2 Mies X of R. Br. a wit doubt in Pl. Preiss. 
ii. s se more ong in DC. Prod 2 xiv. 477, — to me to differ too much in the 
rianths to be united with that spe 
contin specimens from Dr h the foliage of this and the di 
nd, n. 7, w 
! peaga 
ceding sp species, iod doro lanceolate involucral ier approaching t those of 
maie Jove ver all fallen away, and the species, if Jis distinct, 
cannot be áconrálely. desc 
