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LEUCADENDRON GRANDIFLORUM. GREAT- 
FLOWERED LEUCADENDRON. 3 
Cla/s and Order. 
Driecra TETRANDRIAs 
Generic. Charaéer. 
Masc. F¥. capitati. Calo. Pet. 4, ftaminifera. 
Fem. Stiga obliquum. Nux vel Samara 1-fperma, {quamis 
itrobili inclufa. 4 hace S98 
‘Specific Charadler and Synonyms. 
LEUCADENDRON grandiflorum ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis 
callo antice fubrotundo: adultis glabris; floralibus colo- 
ratis, ramis tenuifflime tomentofis, {quamis amenti_utriuf- 
que fexus ovatis obtufiufculis glabris fucatis. Brown in 
Linn, Soc. Tranfal. 10. p. 59. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 3766 
EURISPERMUM erandiflorum. Parad. Lond. 105. 
The genus Prorea, as conftituted by Linnezus, includes 
plants which, though belonging to the fame natural order, differ 
in fo many refpeéts, that he was himfelf fenfible that they ought 
to be feparated, and accordingly made at one period an attempt 
to divide them into two genera; but the very limited number 
_ of fpecies at that time known to him, afforded very infufficient 
materials to found the generic charaéters upon, and when he 
became acquainted with more, they united fo badly with the 
genera he had previoufly founded, that he feems at laft to have 
given them up in defpair, and left off where he had begun, by 
again reducing the whole under one, 
After Linn£us, little feems to have been done more than 
the addition of new difcovered fpecies, till Mr. R. A, Sarts-— 
sury, in the Paradifus Londinenfis, gave definitions of feveral 
genera of the African Proteacee. And very foon after, Mr. 
Rosext Brown, in the tenth volume of the Tranfaétions “ : 
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