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DRYANDRA formosa. 
Splendid Dryandra. 
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Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. PROTEACEZ. Brown Linn, trans,10. p. 46. ; 
Tribus II. Frucrus peniscens.—B. BILOCULARIS, dissepimento libero, 
bifido. 
DRYANDRA. Supra fol. 3 et 22. 

D. formosa, foliis elongato-linearibus pinnatifidis : lobis scaleno-triangularibus muticis 
planis subtis niveis, involucris tomentosis: bracteis interioribus lineari-oblongis, 
receptaculo paleaceo. Brown prodr. 397-398. 
Dryandra formosa. Brown linn. trans. 10. p.13.t.3. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 220. 
Rem. et Schult. syst.3.p.445. Spreng. syst.1. p. 486. 

A stout upright bushy evergreen Shrub, well clothed with 
branches and leaves: branches densely clothed with a soft to- 
mentum, and long soft hairs intermixed. Leaves numerous, 
spreading, rigid, variable in length, from four to nine inches long, 
pinnatifid, attenuated to the base, and ending in an acute point, 
hairy when young, but becoming smooth and glossy by age on 
the upper side, underneath clothed with a close snowy white to- 
mentum : lobes flat and flatly spreading, nearly as broad at the 
base as long, unequally sided, triangular, acute but not mucronate, 
two-nerved underneath, the margins slightly recurved towards 
the point. Petzoles nearly flat, a little convex on the lower side, 
dilated at the base, woolly, also clothed and fringed with long 
hairs. lowers in terminal heads, of a rich orangy brown, very 
handsome, and scented like ripe apricots. Jnvolucre of nume- 
rous bractes, outer ones terminated with a leafy point, becoming 
broad and thickened towards the base, those next the flowers ter- 
minated in a sphacelate recurved point, densely tomentose and 
hairy : inner bractes linearly oblong, acute, also a little reflexed at 
the points. Receptacle chaffy. Perianthium deeply 4-parted ; 
the lacinie narrow, thickly clothed with long soft hairs: wnguis 
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