Leucadendron.| PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). 517 
linear, minutely glandular at the apex ; style 64 lin. long, filiform, 
glabrous ; stigma 1 lin. long, clavate, bifid at the apex ; fruit 5 lin. 
long, 43 lin. broad, oblong-obovoid, sparingly pubescent in the lower 
part. Bot. Reg. t. 979; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 213. Protea 
argentea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 94; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 55; Linn. Syst. 
Veg. ed. xiv. 141; Geertn. Fruct. i. 239, t. 51; Lam. Ill. i. 237, t. 53, 
Jig. 1; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 529; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 136. 
Leucadendros africana, arbor tota argentea, ete., Pluk. Phytogr. t. 200, 
Jig. 1, and Almag. 212. Argyrodendros africana foliis sericis et 
argenteis, Comm. Hort. ii. 51, t.26. Conocarpodendros foliis argenteis, 
etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 195, t. 195. Scolymocephalos 
africanus folio crasso, etc., Weinm, Phyt. iv. 293, t. 900. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Sieber, 5! Bergius! Thunberg ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 45! Pappe! Devils Peak, 
Burchell, 8475! Rondebosch, Dréye! Lions Head, MacOwan, 2926! & in Herb. 
Norm, Austr,-Afr. 905! Phillips ! 
2. L. nervosum (Phillips & Hutchinson); a shrub about 6 ft. 
high ; branchlets longitudinally sulcate, pilose with long weak 
hairs ; leaves 1-2 in. long, }-1 in. broad, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 
mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, very shaggy-pubescent when young, 
becoming closely adpressed-pubescent when older with a cartila- 
ginous margin, prominently nerved on both surfaces; male 
inflorescence solitary, terminal, about } in. long and } in. in diam., 
oblong-ellipsoid, the surrounding leaves long-villous in the lower 
part ; floral bracts } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, somewhat concave, 
pilose ; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 3} lin. long, 
spathulate-linear; limb ? lin. long, oblanceolate, incurved above, 
adpressed-pubescent outside; anthers } lin. long, linear; style 
23-3 lin. long, terete, pilose at the base ; stigma $ lin. long, clavate, 
subacute ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; female flowers not 
known. 
Coast Raton: Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 7862! 
3. L. uliginosum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 63); a straight 
erect shrub 6-7 ft. high; branchlets adpressed silky-pubescent ; 
leaves 4-1} in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, oblong-linear or lanceolate- 
linear, acute or sharply mucronate, rigidly but rather thinly 
coriaceous, densely adpressed silky-pubescent or tomentose; male 
inflorescence conic or ellipsoid, }—} in. long, scarcely } in. in diam., 
surrounded by several leaves about } in. long, the latter often 
rusty-pubescent ; floral bracts } lin. long, oblong, subacute, pilose ; 
perianth-tube } lin. long, somewhat compressed, pilose; segments 
1 lin. long, spathulate-linear, pilose; limb } lin. long, elliptic, 
subobtuse, pilose ; anthers sessile, } lin. long, oblong; style 14 lin. 
long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, ellipsoid ; hypogynous 
scales $ lin. long, linear; young female head } in. long, oblong- 
cylindric ; bracts 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, transversely oblong, 
tomentose ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, compressed, pilose ; segments 
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