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LEUCADENDRON corymbosum; mas, 



mbed Leucadendron : the barren flowered i 



DKECIA TETRANBRIA. 



Nat. ord. Protege. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus 



raonosperrous. 

 PaoTEACE-ffi. Brmn in trans, linn. soc. 10. 15, seqq. 



Div* J. Fructus clausus. A. Anthers; distinct^:: a corolla libera?, 

 Flores dioici, (organis imperiectis.) Stigma femineorum obliquum, errmr- 

 gmatura, papulosum. Nuz v. Samara squamis dilatatis strobili inclusa* 

 Masculi flores capitati- 



LEUCADENDRON. Masc. Flores capitati. Cal. 0. Pet. 4, 

 itaminifera. Fem. Stigma obliquum* Nux vel Samara monosperma, squa- 

 mis strobili inclusa, Br&um in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 873. 



Frutices rarh Arbores, step?! sericeo4omentosi. Folia integerrima. Capi- 

 tula termtnalia 9 sotitaria; bracteis imbrkatis Jbliisoe verticiuaiu et tubcoto- 

 rath plerutnque cincta. Id. in trans, linn. soc. 10* SU 



Div. Nux ventricosa v. lenticularis aptera, undique ntarpmbutve pffosa. 



Stylus totus deciduutf basroe solum remanenti. Corolla diii persistent 



quadripartita. 

 h. corymbosum, foliis lmean-subulatia imbricatis glabris, strobili squamis 



acutis apice recurvis, nucibus subcompressis obcordatis margine pilosis. 



Brottm in Hort. Keu>. ed. 2. 8. 375. 

 Leucadendron corymbosutn. Berg. act. stochh. 1766. 325* Berg. cap. 21 ; 



mas. Broxvn in trans, linn. soc. 10. 57. 

 Protea corymbosa. Thunb. diss. n. 28; (deser. 6 mare prsecipuS) tab. 2; 



mas. Thunb. prod. 26. WUld. sp. pi. 1. 518. Lam. illustr. gen. I. 



238. n. 1250. Poiret encyc. bot. 5. 653. Andrem f sreposit. *95 ; (fern.) 

 Protea bruniades. Linn, suppl. 117- Mas. fid. spec, in illius Herb. 



Obs. Squamxdm 4 hypogyna in utroque sexu. 



A greenhouse shrub from the Cape of Good Hope: 

 whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1790. 



The drawing was taken from a specimen in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, Chelsea; where it formed 

 a slender upright proliferously branching plant about four 

 feet in height. 



The genus is dioicous, that is, one where the fruitful 

 flowers are borne on different plants, from those which bear 

 the barren ones. 



The following is a note by Mr. Brown: " The separation 

 ff of the plants with fertile from those with sterile flowers in 

 "the genus Protea of authors, obscurely suspected by 



