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elongate apicem versus spepius incrassato. El. 5 : Perianthium urceolatum, tAibo anguste 

 pyramidato angiilato, lobis linearibus recurvo-patentibus. Staminodia linearia, effceta. 

 Squamse hypogynai 0. Ovarium longe densissimeque pilosum; styli apex leviter 

 clavatus, stiguiate oblongo obliquo ; ovulum 1, prope basin loculi ascendens, anatropum. 

 Nux densissime pilosa.— Frutices glabri, dense foliati. Folia sparsa, angusta, coriacea, 

 indivisa. Ramnli floriferi breves, inter folia sessiles, subumbellati, ^J racemiformes, 

 cylindracci, dense multiflori, ? dense capitati, foliis canlinis summis dense involucrati, 

 capitulo etiam intra involucrum ramulis brevibus acerosa-multifidis cincto. Bractere 

 inter flores lineares. Flores ^ breviter pediccllati, J sessiles. 



Species 2, austro-Africanas. Mciss?i. in DC. Prod. xiv. 212. Traitin. Thes. Bot. i. 9. Bot. Heg. t. 

 1015 {$). ^ Andr. Bot. Hep. tlQ {$ ), 248 (?) (Profea). Raimili mnltifidi sexi bracteaj plumose 

 capitula $ intra involucnim cingentes sunt verisimiliter raccmi ^ abortivi. 



2. leucadendron, E. Br. in Tram. Linn. Soc. x. 50, non Linn. (Protea, Limu Gen. 

 n. Ill, non ejusd. Gen. ed. 1. Conocarpus Adans. Fam. ii. 284:, non Lhin.)— Flores 

 abortu dioici, regulares. Fl. J* : Perianthium lineare, rectum v. subincurvum, limbo 

 panira incrassato j segmentis demum supra medium v. usque ad basin solutis recurvo- 

 patentibus. Antherse ad basin laminarum subsessiles, oblongro v. lineares, connectivo 

 ultra loculos brevissime v. hand producto. Squamos hypogynas 4 lineares v. 0. Ovarii 

 rudimentum stylo elongato superne oblongo papilloso supcratum. Fl. $ : Perianthium 

 masculo subsimile v. segmentis diutiiis connatis. Antherre effcetse. Ovarium angustum, 

 stylo apice oblongo v. lineari-fusiformi, stigmate terminali emarginato v. rarius descen- 

 dente; ovulum 1, lateraliter affixum, amphitropum. Nux ssepius lata, plus minus 

 compressa, margine obtusa acuta v. alata.— Frutices v. arbores, incani puberuli v. glabri. 

 Folia sparsa, coriacea, indivisa, integerrima. Flores intra bracteas solitarii, sessiles, ad 

 apices ramorum capitati, capitulis stepius foliis fioralibus caulinis similibus v. latioribus 

 coloratisque cinctis ; capitula fructifera sfepius late strobiliformia, squamis involucri 

 bracteisque latis coriaceis v. induratis imbricatia. Bractepe sub fioribus per anthesin 

 parvffi, demum auctre, exterioribus spepius vacuis involucrum intra folia floralia forman- 

 tibua. 



Species doscriptse fere 70, Africae australis mcolic, noniniUoe tamcn reduccndx.— il/c/ssw. in DC, 

 Prod, xiv. 213. Salish. Parad. Loud. t. 75, 105 (Euri/sjjcrmmii). Breyn. Cmt. t. 9. Jacq. Hort. 

 Schcenhr. t. 26, 27, 401. Andr. Bot. Bep. t. 307, 429, 461, 495, 541, 572. Bot. Mag. t. 878, 881, 

 1650, Bot. Beg. t. 402, 826, 979 (ic. aliae sub Protea, ixlix sub Lmtcadcndro), 



Koraina phirima praetcr heucadendron ante Linnsenm a Plukenctio aliJsque L. argenteo, Br., imposita 

 fucrunt, nulla tamen nee a Plukcnetio nee ab aliis generico definita. Lcncadmdron, Linn., ad 

 I*rotcam ipsam reductum est, et Brown primus genus nostrum sub hocf nomine constituit. Salisbury, 

 Parad. Lond. Kiib t. 67, species typicas pericarpio exalato tumido sub Protea, retinult, et species 

 pericarpio alato geuerice soparavit, sub nominibus, Euhyspermu.v, Sidi&h. in Knight, Prat. 18, et 

 CiiASME, SoUsh. in Knight, Prot. 16. Brown tamcn species dioicas omnes sub Lcucadcndro conjunxit, 

 quern seenti sunt botanici posteriorcs. 



GissoKiA, Salish. in Knight, Prot. 32, includit L. plnmostun, Br., speciesque v. varietates afl5ncs 

 liabitu peculiari, capitulis S ovoideis, squamis arete imbrJcatis insignes. 



liErcANDRVM, Kec^. Elcm. i. 106, ct Vion^a, Neck. Ic. 107, ex charactcro valde imperfecto verisi- 

 militer ad Lettcadendriim referendae sunt. 



3. Protea, Linn. Gen. ed. i. 22, ct avct. recent^ non Linn. Gen. ed. scq. (Leucadendron 

 Linn. Gen. n. 110. Erodendron, Salish. Parad. Lond, t. 67, 70, 76, 108, ct in Knight 

 Prot. U. Pleiu-antlie, Saliah. in Knight^ Prot. 49.)— Flores hermaphroditi, irrcgulares! 

 Perianthium lineare, basi latins, a dorso s.iepe compressus, plenmique incurvus, limbo 

 obliquo parum latiore, segmento postico angusto per antliesin a basi soluto, 3 inferioribus 

 in labium recurviuu integrum v. summo apico breviter 2-3-iidum connatis. Antherse in 

 limbo subsessiles, libene, lineares, connectivo ultra loculos producto appondiculatse. 

 Squama? hypogynse 4, lineares, tenues v. obsoletoe. Ovarium longe densequo pilosum; 

 styli rigidi apex subulatus compressus angulatus v. anguste 2-alatus, stigmate parvo 



