520 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zeucadendron. 
Pass, Bolus, 3167 ! New Kloof, Burchell, 1021! near Tulbagh Waterfall, Phillips, 
528! Witsenberg Range near Tulbagh, Burchell, 8703! Schlechter, 1392! 
Worcester Div. ; near Worcester, Cooper, 1609! Hex River Kloof, Drége! Paarl 
Div. ; near Paarl, Wilms, 3571! 3578! Pappe! Lréyge! Cape Div. ; near Wyn- 
berg, Bolus, 3845! Hottento!s Kloof, Pearson, 4933! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots 
Holland, Zeyher, 1453 ! Caledon Div. ; Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, Burchell, 
7810! Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Gil! 
6. L. aurantiacum (Buek in Drage, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 117, 
198, partly, as to spec. b); a shrub 2-3 ft. high, with the appear- 
ance of a small tree ; branches rather thick, marked by the scars of 
fallen leaves, slightly pubescent or glabrous; young branchlets 
rather slender, silky-villous ; leaves 1-2} in. long, }-1#? lin. broad, 
the lower ones linear, subterete, those surrounding the inflorescence 
flat and a little wider towards the top, contracted into a hardened 
glabrous mucro at the apex, villous with adpressed silky hairs ; 
male inflorescences solitary, terminating short branchlets, surrounded 
and overtopped by the uppermost leaves, depressed-globose, scarcely 
more than 4 in. in diam. ; bracts lanceolate, acute, up to 2 lin. long, 
densely villous outside ; perianth-tube } lin. long, thinly pilose ; seg- 
ments 14 lin. long, villous ; limb $ lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 
densely villous outside ; anthers 4 lin. long, linear ; style 17 lin. 
long, filiform, pilose at the base ; stigma } lin. long, spindle-shaped, 
subobtuse ; female inflorescences 1}—-1} in. long, 1}—2 in. in diam., 
broadly-ovoid or ovoid-globose ; bracts about } in. long and broad, 
ovate-triangular to narrowly lanceolate, rather abruptly acuminate 
to a glabrous apex, becoming obtuse in fruit, rigidly coriaceous, 
glabrous, shining and striate within, densely villous outside ; 
perianth-tube 3-4 lin. long, inflated, membranous, glabrous ; 
segments linear-filiform, 53 lin. long, long-villous ; limb # lin. long, 
linear, subobtuse, long-villous; staminodes 4 lin. long, linear ; 
style 5} lin. long, glabrous ; stigma minutely bifid; fruit 3 lin. 
long, 1} lin. in diam., oblong-obovoid, subacute at the base, white 
villous with weak ascending hairs. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 217. 
L. protecides, E. Meyer in Pl. Drege, as to spec. b, ex Meisn. hs 
L. cinereum, Meisn. l.c. 216, partly, as to syn. Protea alba, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 31 ; Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 139; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. - 
Schult. 130 ; Lam. Ill. i. 236; Poir. Eneycl. v. 647. P. cinerea, Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 127, not of Willd. 
SoutH AFrrica : without locality, Thunberg! Sparrman ! 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div. ; summit of a mountain peak near Swellendam, 
Burchell, 7335! George Div. ; on the Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5892! 
Uniondale Div. ; between Avontuur and Klip Kiver, in Lange Kloof, Drege ! 
CenTRaL Recion: Prince Albert Div. ; Zwartberg Pass, Bolus, 11625 ! 
7. L. proteoides (E. Meyer MSS.); branchlets stout, slightly 
wrinkled, about 4 lin. in diam., glabrous ; leaves crowded, 14-23 
in. long, 14-4} lin. broad, linear-oblanceolate or spathulate-oblan- 
ceolate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, thick and coriaceous, 
pubescent on both surfaces with small adpressed silky hairs ; 
