Leucadendron.| PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). 521 
male inflorescence not known; female inflorescence terminal or 
terminating a lateral branch, solitary, globose, 2-24 in. in diam. ; 
bracts oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtusely pointed, densely 
adpressed silky-pubescent outside, glabrous within ; perianth-tube 
4 lin. long, swollen in the middle, narrowing to both ends, mem- 
branous, glabrous; segments 4 lin. long, linear, villous outside 
with very long hairs; limb 1 lin. long, linear, subacute, villous ; 
staminodes % lin. long, linear ; style 5 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; 
stigma } lin. long, truncate, minutely bifid; fruit 2} lin. long, 
narrowly ellipsoid-obovoid, villous. L. awrantiacum, Buek in Drege, 
Zwei Pf. Documente 64, 198, partly, as to spec. 2 a. 
CentTRAL Recon : Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwartberg Range, near Vrolykheid, 
Drége, 9, a! 
8. L. Schlechteri (Phillips & Hutchinson); branches terete, 
densely adpressed-pubescent ; young branchlets adpressed-tomentose 
with whitish hairs ; leaves linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, those 
on the shoot below the inflorescence }—} in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, 
those surrounding the inflorescence larger, 1}-2 in. long, 2-24 lin. 
broad, all contracted at the apex into a hardened glabrous mucro, 
rigidly coriaceous, densely tomentose with silky adpressed hairs on 
both surfaces; male inflorescences solitary at the apex of each 
branchlet, depressed-globose, scarcely } in. in diam. ; bracts 1 lin. 
long, lanceolate, acute, villous; perianth-tube 1} lin. long, rather 
densely pilose ; segments 1} lin. long, shortly villous ; limb 2 lin. long, 
lanceolate-elliptic, subacute, villous outside; anthers } lin. long, 
linear ; style filiform ; stigma } lin. long, clavate, subacute ; female 
inflorescence terminal, depressed-globose, }-1} in. in diam, ; bracts 
4-5 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, obovate, the outer ones abruptly 
narrowed into an acute apex, densely villous with silky hairs 
outside, glabrous and longitudinally striate within ; perianth- 
segments 44 lin. long, linear, villous ; limb 2 lin. long, ovate, 
subacute, villous ; staminodes } lin. long, oblong, minutely apiculate ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, ovate, acuminate ; style 3} lin. long, 
obliquely inserted, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed ; ovary 14 lin 
long, glabrous. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cedarberg Range, at Ezelsbank, Schlechter, — 
£829! 8830! 
9. L. schinzianum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 113); an 
erect shrub, branched from the base, 3-4 ft. high; branchlets 
slender, straight, subterete, slightly villous or puberulous, at length 
glabrescent ; leaves erect, 4-9 lin. long, 1—2 lin. broad, oblanceolate 
or spathulate-oblanceolate, narrowed to the base, hardened into a 
subacute glabrous mucro at the apex, rigidly coriaceous, shortly 
adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, subglabrous on the margin ; 
male and female inflorescences very similar, solitary, terminating 
the main branches or short lateral branchlets, subglobose, $—} in. 
