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16. D. foliolata, ''R. Br. Prot. Nov. ''38. Apparently a tall shrub, the branches tomentose and hirsute with spreading hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, ½ to 1 in. broad, divided mare than halfway to the midrib into obliquely ovate-triangular lobes, acute or mucronate, flat or nearly so, reticulate above, tomentose and transversely veined underneath. Flower-heads small, globular, on very short axillary peduncles or branches, surrounded by spreading floral leaves. Involucral bracts not very numerous, linear, softly villous, 3 or 4 lines long, mostly expanded at the end into a small lamina. Perianths very villous, about ½ in. long. Style ¾ in. long, with a small but thickened stigmatic end. Capsule obliquely rounded, about 5 lines broad.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 471; D. mutica, Meissn. l.c.

.—Flower-heads usually large, broad, terminal or axillary, surrounded by long floral leaves. Involucral bracts broad, villous. Styles long with a long narrow stigmatic end. Leaves flat or nearly so, tomentose underneath, pinnatifid or pinnate, with numerous contiguous triangular lobes or segments, acute or mucronate but not pungent-pointed.

17. D. stupposa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 33. A shrub of about 10 ft., closely resembling D. formosa, but the leaves are not divided to the midrib, the lobes often larger and more acute, and the flower-heads, either terminal or on short lateral branches, are rather larger. Perianth nearly 1½ in. long, woolly-villous above the glabrous base, the upper part of the tube and limb silky-villous. Style longer than the perianth, with a narrow furrowed stigmatic end.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 591, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 470.

18. D. nobilis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 33. A shrub of 4 to 7 ft. very nearly allied to D. formosa. Leaves longer, the lobes broader, separated by more open sinuses and not always divided to the midrib. Flower-heads still larger than in D. formosa, but the involucre rather small, and all on exceedingly short lateral branches, surrounded by numerous floral leaves. Perianths 1½ in. long, woolly-villous above the glabrous base, then silky-villous. Styles nearly 2 in. long.—Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 592, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 469; Bot. Mag. t. 4633, copied into Lem. Fl. Jard. t. 226, and into Fl. des Serres. vii. t. 728.