516 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zeucadendron. 
Leaves 2 in. broad or less: 
Male heads less than 1 in. in diam. ; 
female head elongated, cylin- 
dric; leaves tomentose on the 
margin : 
Male heads elongated; leaves 
oblong-lanceolate ...... (51) decorum. 
Male heads globose; leaves ob- 
ovate - oblanceolate or ob- 
lanceolate .., ie ... (52) concolor. 
Male heads 1-2 in. in diam. ; female 
heads broadly obovoid or de- 
pressed -globose : 
Male heads about 1 in. in diam. ; 
inner leaves glabrous outside ; 
bracts in 2-3 series, glabrous 
or nearly so; female bracts 
with a very dense villous tuft 
of rust-coloured hairs below 
the middle, glabrous above ... (53) venosum, 
Male heads about 13-2 in.in diam. ; 
inner leaves silky-villous out- 
side; bracts in about 2 series ; 
female bracts long-villous in 
the lower half and along the 
margin be ... (54) daphnoides. 
Male heads 14-2 in. in diam. ; 
inner leaves slightly villous or 
nearly glabrous; bracts 5-6- 
seriate; female bracts ad- 
pressed - pilose in the lower : 
part ... ee wid ... (55) grandiflorum. 
1. L. argenteum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 52); a tree 
20-30 ft. high; branchlets stout, terete, about 4 in. in diam., 
densely pubescent with closely adpressed hairs and often long pilose ; 
leaves sessile, 24-5} in. long, }-1} in. broad, gradually increasing 
in length towards the inflorescence, lanceolate or elongate-lanceolate, 
slightly narrowed to a broad insertion at the base, narrowed to a 
subacute hardened glabrous apex, entire, rather thinly coriaceous, 
densely pubescent on both surfaces with adpressed silvery silky hairs ; 
male inflorescence terminal, solitary, more or less globose, 13-2 
in. in diam. ; floral bracts 3} lin. long, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 
ciliate, villous; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous ; 
segments 3 lin. long; limb 1} lin. long, oblong-linear, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, shortly villous outside ; anthers } lin. long, linear ; 
style 51 lin. long, pubescent in the lower half; stigma 1 lin, loag; 
clavate-obtuse, furrowed; hypogynous scales 1-24 lin. long, linear- 
filiform ; female inflorescence similar to the male in position and 
shape ; bracts very broadly ovate or semiorbicular, rigidly corlaceous, 
velvety-tomentellous outside, glabrous and slightly shining within ; 
perianth-tube inflated, constricted at the mouth, membranous, 
glabrous ; segments 8 lin. long, villous with long simple hairs ; lim 
1 lin. long, oblong, villous with short hairs ; staminodes § lin. long, 
