518 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zeucadendron. 
} lin. long, linear, pilose ; limb } lin. long, oblong, pilose ; staminodes 
4 lin. long, linear; style ? lin. long, linear, broadening above, 
glabrous ; stigma truncate; ovary } lin. long, compressed, oblong, 
pilose ; hypogynous scales 3 lin. long, linear ; mature head ellipsoid, 
1-1} in. long, scarcely 1 in. in diam. ; bracts tomentose outside ; 
fruits compressed, wrinkled, elliptic, glabrous, about 2 lin. long. 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 223. L. floridum, R. Br. lc. ; Meisn. lc. 
L. cuspidatum, Klotzsch ea Meisn. l.c.?. L. salignum, var. lineari- 
folium, Meisn, l.c.t. L.? coniferum, Meisn. l.c. 227, partly. Protea 
saligna, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 572. P. conifera, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 
53 (excl. specimens a, B, y and 8 of Herb.); Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 135 (ewel. spec. «, B, y and 8 of Herb.). P. saligna, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 39 ; Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 140; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 136. P. concinna, ‘Salish. Prodr. 50. Frutex sthiopicus 
conifer, etc., Breyn, Cent. 21, t. 9. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Krauss, 1043, 1045, Thom, 181! Sieber, 7! 
Zeyher! Ecklon! Mund! Bergius! Labillardiére! Grey! Thunberg! Brown ! 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div. ; Claremont Flats, Diimmer, 503 ! Kenilworth Race- 
course, Diimmer, 1776! Cape Flats near Rondebosch, Burchell, 210! between 
Hout Bay and Wynberg, Drége! near Wynberg, Oldenburgh ! Roxburgh! Wallich ! 
Brown! Bolus, 3846! 3847! Stellenbosch Div.; between Stellenbosch and Cape 
Flats, Burchell, 8365! Riversdale Div. ; near Milkwoodfontein, Galpin, 4443! 
4444! Mossel Bay Div. ; Robinson Pass, Bolus, 12263! 2447! Oudtshoorn Div. ; 
near the Oliphants River, Gill! George Div. ; near the Touw River, Burchell, 
5740! 5752! on mountains, Bowie! Post Berg, near George, Bowie! 
4. L. salignum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 62); branches 
terete, glabrous ; branchlets stiff, shortly pubescent ; leaves subequal — 
in the sexes, those surrounding the inflorescences longer than those 
on the remainder of the shoot, 14-2} in. long, 14-3} lin. broad, 
oblong-linear or lanceolate-linear, produced into a long subulate 
acute apex, thinly but rigidly coriaceous, silky-pubescent with long 
closely adpressed hairs on both surfaces, at length becoming glabrous 
and longitudinally wrinkled or striate ; male inflorescences solitary 
and terminal, surrounded by several coloured leaves, } in. long, 
about 5 lin. in diam., ellipsoid ; bracts 1 lin. long, obovate, obtuse, 
densely villous; perianth-tube ? lin. long, glabrous; segments 
1} lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous ; limb 3 lin. long, oblong- — 
elliptic, obtuse, glabrous ; anthers 2 lin. long, oblong; style 1} lin. 
long, cylindric, thickened at the base; stigma } lin. long, clavate, 
obtuse ; hypogynous scales # lin. long, filiform ; female inflorescence 
surrounded by several leaves, 3 in. long, } in. in diam., ellipsoid ; 
bracts 1} lin. long, 44 lin. broad, transversely linear-oblong, 
rounded above, tomentose ; perianth-segments 2 lin. long, cohering; 
glabrous ; limb } lin. long, suborbicular, glabrous ; style 1 lin. long, 
linear, widened above, doubly bent just above the base, obliquely 
inserted ; stigma obovate, oblique; hypogynous scales } lin. long, 
filiform ; ovary ? lin, long, winged, the wings produced into two 
arms above, glabrous ; fruits compressed, narrowly winged, about 
2 lin. long, elliptic, black, glabrous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 228 
(ewel. syn. P. sericea, Thunb., et spec. Zeyher, 3646). Protea argentea 
