576 CIV. PROTEACEJE, [ Dryandra, 
Meissner on account of the toten the inflorescence and involucre, usually mor 
folicative of true affinity, are e those of the Nivee. The sectional character sid 
consequently the real place t be ascertained until the fruit shall have been 
d. 
OBVALLAT#.—F lower-heads axillary, ovoid or small, en- 
Mes els in vil von leaves. Leaves either pinnate with very still 
Sem ents or more frequently pinnatifid with very rigid pungent- 
boe 
26. D. sclerophylla, speras in Hook. Kem Journ. vii. 199, and in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 474. Apparently a low but erect shrub, not mucli branched. 
Leaves under 3 in. lo te; segmen erous, triangular, 
acute, rarely 2 lines long, rigid, with revolute margins shortly decur- 
rent to the next segments. Flower-heads n erous, axillary or 
cede terminal, closely surroun b s floral leaves of 2 
in. Involuere 7 to 8 lines long, the bracts lanceolate, tapering 
s plumose points. Perianth about 3 in. lon y-villous, the oblong 
obtuse limb becoming almost glabrous. Style rather longer than the 
po with a slig = thickened stigmatic end. 
stralia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 
200 “the species is very nay allied to D. pulchella. 
oints. Perianth about lam. long; 
pee cone, 
Ww. Australia, Drummond, Ath coll. n. 312. 
8. &, H. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 914, Pro d. 998. 
A shrub n rue 2 d, the branches Misi and Metis 
ae villous with fine s Lape: hairs. Leaves 6 in. to 1 ft. long, 
more, the bracts narrow, with long filiform plumose-hairy points. 
Perianth j in. long, densely woolly-villous, the gem oblong, about 1 
line long. Style longer than the perianth, with a small slightly fur- 
rowed s stigmatic end. Capsule about 7 lines broad. —Meissn. in Pl. 
Preiss. i. 592 Em in DC. Prod. xiv. 470. 
W. Au King Geor, R. Brown, 
ge’s Sound and neighbouring districts, 
Baxter, Eom Ath AL n 810, Preiss, n. 507, Me ell. * : 
