Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 69/4035

by William Jackson Hooker

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Dryandra arctotidis. Arctotis-like
Dryandra.
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Class and Order.

Tetandria Monogynia.

(Nat. Ord. - Proteaceæ)

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina
apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamulæ hypo-
gonæ 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Fol-
liculis ligneus: dissepimento libero bifido. Receptacu-
lum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim confertis;
paleis angustis, raro nullis. Involucrum commune imbrica-
tum.–Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint sparsi
vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. incisa, plantæ
juvenilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, terminalia, raro
lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus quandoque
nanis obvallata, hemisphærica, bracteis adpressis, in quibus-
dam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sæpè perianthio vix lon-
gior. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dryandra arctotidis; foliis linearibus pinnatifidis subter
niveo-tomentosis caulem glabrum subæqualibus, lobis
lineari-lanceolatis decurrentibus aveniis marginibus in-
crassato-recurvis, involucri squamis lineari-lanceolatis
glabriusculis, perianthii unguibus laminisque villosis,
tubo imberbi. Br.

Dryandra arctotidis. Br. Prodr. Suppl. p. 39.

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This is one of several handsome species which Mr. Bax-
ter added to the number previously published in the
Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ; and which Mr. Brown
introduced
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introduced into his valued Supplement, which appeared in
1830. It was detected in 1829, in the hilly region near
King George's Sound, on the South-western shores of New
Holland. Plants were raised from seeds soon after that
period, and they form small, but handsome, bushy green-
house plants; bearing numerous flowers in the month of
May in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where our draw-
ing was made in 1842.

Descr. Stems short, but much branched and straggling,
glabrous, densely clothed with harsh, rigid, but graceful
foliage. Leaves a span long, petioled, linear, deeply pin-
natifid, almost to the rachis, more or less hairy; segments
very narrow, linear, acute, almost subulate, curved down-
wards, decurrent, dark green and shining above, white with
dense down beneath: the rachis pale brown :-the lower
segments are so far apart that the base of the leaf may be
called pinnate, the rachis winged with the decurrent pin-
nules. Flowers terminal, on exceedingly short branches,
collected into an obconical head, shorter than the surround-
ing foliage. Perianth with its tube glabrous, the four
narrow, linear segments spathulate at their extremities and
hairy. Style much longer than the perianth, glabrous.
Stigma clavate.

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Fig. 1. Single Flower:–magnified.