hemispherical or nearly globular, ¾ to 1 in. diameter, more or less villous, with a few outer leafy bracts, longer than the flowers, but spreading and not enclosed in floral leaves, mostly dilated at the base and passing into the imbricate bracts, which are very numerous, lanceolate with long narrow points. Paleæ plumose with long woolly hairs. Perianths glabrous, about 7 lines long, the limb narrow, mucronate, 1½ lines long. Style rather longer than the perianth, the stigmatic end short, slightly thickened and angular. Capsules scarcely above ¼ in. long.
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 345.
11. D. polycephala, Benth. Branches rather slender, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves narrow, divided to the midrib into small rather distant segments, the lower leaves 3 to 6 in. long with short broad obtuse segments, those of the flowering branches 1 to 2 in. long, very spreading or recurved, with narrow acute segments of 1 to 2 lines; all the segments very rigid, with recurved margins decurrent along the rhachis to the next segment. Flower-heads small, numerous, terminating lateral branches or crowded at the end of the principal ones, the floral leaves few and spreading. Involucre broadly campanulate, 3 to 4 lines long, the bracts numerous, narrow, with subulate usually recurved points. Perianth-tube about ½ in. long, silky-villous except the minute glabrous base, the limb glabrous, about 1 line long. Style longer than the perianth, with a small but distinct clavate stigmatic end. Capsule broadly obovate, not 3 lines long.—D. squarrosa, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 266, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 474, not of R. Br.
W. Australia. Drummond, 1st coll., 2nd coll. n. 342.
12. D. Kippistiana, Meiss. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 122. and in DC. Prod. xiv. 473. An erect shrub of 2 or 3 ft., the branches loosely hoary-tomentose, the young shoots often hairy. Leaves narrow, 1½ to 4 in. long, pinnate; segments divided to the midrib, numerous, obliquely triangular, obtuse or acute, 1 to 2 lines long, the margins revolute, decurrent along the rhachis, but shortly so the segments being much closer than in B. polycephala, usually white underneath. Flower heads scarcely larger than in D. polycephala, terminal with a few also on very short axillary branches, the floral leaves few and spreading. Involucre broadly campanulate, under ½ in. long, the bracts not numerous, broad and tomentose at the base, tapering into fine points ciliate with long hairs. Perianth-tube nearly ½ in. long, loosely hairy above the glabrous base, the limb narrow, above 1 line long, densely villous with longer hairs. Style longer than the perianth, with a small but distinct dark-coloured obtuse stigmatic end.—D. foliolata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 266, not of R. Br.
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 343; near Dundaragan, Oldfield.
Series 3. Concinnæ.—Flower-heads small, broad, axillary, the bracts narrow, the floral leaves usually spreading. Perianth under ¾ in. long. Stigmatic end of the style small but thickened and distinct.
