DRYANDRA longifolia. 
Long-leaved Dryandra. 

Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, PROTEACEZ. Brown linn. trans. 10. p. 46. 
Tribus II. Fructus dehiscens,—B. BiLocuLaRis, dissepimento libero, bifido. 
DRYANDRA. Perianthium quadripartitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina apicibus con- 
cavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypogyne 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis mono- 
spermis. Folliculus ligneus: Dissepimento libero, bifido, Receptaculum commune planum, 
floribus indeterminatim confertis ; paleis angustis raro nullis. Involucrum commune im- 
bricatum.—Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint spars vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, 
pinnatifida v. incisa, plant@ juvenilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, terminalia, raré late- 
ralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus quandoque nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis 
adpressis, in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus se@pé perianthio vix longior, Brown 
prodr. 1. p. 396. 

D. longifolia, foliis linearibus pinnatifidis longissimis acutis subtis cinereo-tomentosis 
basi attenuati integerrim4: lobis triangularibus adscendentibus decurrentibus 
margine recurvis, involucri bracteis elongato-linearibus subulato-acuminatis mar- 
gine barbatis extus glabris, perianthii unguibus basi lanatis supra pubescentibus : 
laminis pilosiusculis, caule tomentoso. Brown l.c. p.398. 
Dryandra longifolia, Brown linn. trans. 10. p. 215. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 221. Botan. 
magaz. 1582. Rem. et Schult. syst. 3. p.446. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 487. 

A stout handsome evergreen Shrub, sometimes attaining the 
height of ten or twelve feet, and well clothed with branches, 
which are tomentose, except some of the old ones where the 
tomentum is worn off. eaves numerous, rigid, variable in 
length, some a foot long, and others not half that length, pin- 
natifid, acute, smooth and green on the upper side, underneath 
clothed with a grey tomentum, attenuated into a sort of foot- 
stalk at the base, and entire, the bottom a little dilated: lobes 
triangular, reticulately veined underneath, ascending, acute and 
tipped with a short cartilaginous point, the margins recurved. 
Involucre of numerous bractes, which are unequal in length, 
imbricate, surrounding the head of flowers, linear, acute, more 
or less taper-pointed, outside smooth and glossy, margins and 
points bearded: inner ones erect, outer ones more or less 
spreading. lowers crowded in a close head, straw-coloured. 
Receptacle chatty. Perianthium 4-parted: lacitni@ narrow, 
