Leaves often above 1 ft. long, pinnate with numerous ovate-lanceolate or triangular-acute rigid segments; contiguous at the base and mostly separated by acute sinuses, pale, tomentose and several-nerved underneath, the larger ones 1 to 1½ in. long. Flower-heads terminal, closely surrounded by long floral leaves. Involucre broad, densely villous, a few of the outer bracts long and narrow, sometimes resembling reduced floral leaves, others broad and short, the inner ones linear-lanceolate. Perianths villous, at least 1¼ in. long, the limb 4 to 5 lines long. Style about as long as the perianth, with a long narrow furrowed stigmatic end. Capsule of D. pteridifolia, or rather larger.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 481; D. Drummondii, Meissn in Pl. Preiss. ii. 267, and in DC. l.c.
W. Australia. King George's Sound or neighbouring districts, Baxter, Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 299,300,301,4th coll. n. 319; Kalgan river, Oldfield.
ADDENDUM
Under Verbenaceæ, after the synopsis of genera, p. 33, add—
Pentaptelion involucratum, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 194, proposed as a new genus of Verbenaceæ, is Leucopogon plumuliflorus, described above, vol iii. p. 205.
