Leaves flat or nearly so, tomentose underneath, semipinnatifid with short acute mucronate or rarely pungent-pointed lobes.
This series has the flower-heads of the Floribundæ but axillary, with the leaves of the Plumosæ but less deeply divided.
13. D. squarrosa, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 38. A shrub with rather slender branches, at first tomentose but soon becoming glabrous. Leaves narrow, the lower ones 4 to 8 in. long, those of the flowering branches usually about half that length, notched, prickly-toothed or pinnatifid, with short pungent-pointed or angular rather distant teeth or lobes rarely reaching half-way to the midrib, the entire centre of the leaf of a uniform breadth of 1½ to 2½ lines, the whole leaf flat or undulate, hoary or tomentose underneath. Flower-heads small, often numerous, mostly axillary surrounded by a few spreading floral leaves. Involucre broadly campanulate, under ½ in. long, the bracts numerous, narrow, acute or with subulate often recurved points. Perianths silky-villous, about 7 lines long, the limb about 1 line long, villous with longer hairs. Style longer than the perianth, with a small slightly thickened stigmatic end.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 474, as to Baxter's specimens only.
W. Australia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, Baxter, Harvey.
14. D. serra, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 38. An erect shrub, from 5 to 10 or even 15 ft. high. Leaves 2 to 6 in. long, divided halfway to the midrib into numerous broadly triangular regular lobes, mucronate with short rigid points, flat, reticulate above, tomentose underneath. Flower-heads small, on very short axillary peduncles or branches, surrounded by a few spreading floral leaves. Involucral bracts not very numerous, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, usually dark-coloured with densely ciliate margins, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Perianths about 7 lines long, slender, silky-villous, the limb small, oblong, obtuse. Style about ¾ in. long, with a small but thickened stigmatic end. Capsule falcate, often ½ in. long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 581, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 470.
W. Australia. King George's Sound or neighbouring districts, Baxter, Drummond, n. 172, 3rd coll. n. 296, Preiss, n. 513; Wuljenup, Maxwell.
15. D. concinna, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 38, not of Meissn. A shrub, probably tall, with tomentose branches, Leaves 2 to 4 in. long, pinnatifid with triangular finely pointed lobes, reticulate above and tomentose underneath as in D. serra, but the leaf usually rather broader, with fewer labes reaching about halfway to the midrib. Flower-heads small, globular, on very short axillary peduncles surrounded by spreading floral leaves as in D. serra, but the bracts more numerous, oblong or oblong-linear, very obtuse and tomentose all over, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Perianths more villous than in D. serra, otherwise apparently the same but only seen withered. Capsule nearly ½ inch long, oblique but not so falcate as in D. serra.
