Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 38/1582



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Class and Order.

Generic Character.—Vide No. 1581.

Specific Character. DRYANDRA longifolia; foliis linearibus pinnatifidis longissimis
 * acutis subtus cinereo-tomentosis: basi attenuata integerrima;
 * lobis triangularibus adscendentibus decurrentibus margine
 * recurvis, involucri bracteis elongato-linearibus subulato
 * accuminatis margine barbatis extus glabris, corallæ
 * [peranthii] unguibus basi lanatis supra pubescentibus:
 * laminis pilosiusculis, caule tomentoso. Brown Prod. Nov.
 * Holl. p. 398. Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. 215.  Hort. Kew. ed. alt.
 * v. 1. p. 221.

The original of, being found not to be generically different from, previously esta- blished by, Mr. tells us that he "derived peculiar satisfaction, in giving the name of his respected friend, Mr. , to a genus so nearly allied to Banksia, from which indeed it differs chiefly in inflorescence, but in that respect so widely as to be at once distinguishable : there is also something in the habit, especially in the leaves of the greater number of species, by which, independent of the parts of fructi- fication, the genus is pretty certainly indicated, and it is worthy of notice, that, while Banksia is generally spread over all the coast of New-Holland, and of Van Diemen's Island, Dryandra has hitherto been observed only on that part of the south coast, called Lewin's Land, where, however, its species are nearly as numerous and abundant as those of Banksia itself*." This is as
 * Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. 212.

it ought to be, that Dryandra should have the nearest affinity with Banksia.

The longifolia is a very fine shrub, with much larger flowers than those of the species figured in the preceding plate. Native of Lewin's Land, the south coast of New- Holland, growing upon rocky hills. We were favoured with the specimen from which our drawing was taken by our friend Mr., from the Royal gardens at Kew, in February last. Introduced in 1805. It does not appear to have flowered when the first volume of the new edition of the Hortus Kewensis was published.