522 PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zeweadendron. 
in diam. ; involucral bracts of the male about 4-seriate, ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, scaly, up to 3 lin. long 
and 2 lin. broad, loosely long villous on the outside ; perianth-tube 
cylindric, 34 lin. long, adpressed-villous ; segments about 1} lin. 
long, pubescent in the lower half; limb oblong-elliptic, acute, 
1 lin. long, shortly villous outside ; anthers subacute, } lin. long ; 
style 4 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma subacute, somewhat club-shaped, 
2 lin. long; female bracts very similar to the male ; perianth-tube 
4—} lin. long, glabrous at the base, adpressed-pubescent above ; 
segments 444 lin. long, villous with ascending hairs; limb 3-1 
lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, villous outside ; staminodes 
$ lin. long; style 34 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma clavate, 
bifid or bilobed ; ovary ? lin. long, oblong, compressed, winged, 
minutely puberulous ; fruits not seen. 
CenTRAL Recon: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8871! 8872! 
10. L. nitidum (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 74, 198) ; 
branches subterete, adpressed-pubescent or glabrous ; young lateral 
flowering branchlets very short, silky-pubescent ; leaves 3-7 lin. 
long, 1-2 lin. broad, erect, oblanceolate, narrowed to the base, 
contracted at the apex into a small glabrous obtuse mucro, 
coriaceous, adpressed silky -tomentose on both surfaces ; male 
inflorescences solitary at the apex of each short branchlet, about 
4 in. in diam., subglobose ; bracts 2-21 lin. long, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, subacute, finely pubescent, minutely ciliate, the outer 
with narrowly membranous margins; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, 
narrowly cylindric, widening upwards; segments 1} lin. long, 
spathulate-linear, densely pilose; limb 3 lin. long, oblong-elliptic, 
subacute; anthers } lin. long, linear; style 2} lin. long, filiform, 
slightly widening at the base ; stigma } lin. long, clavate, obtuse ; 
female inflorescence solitary and terminal, }—} in. in diam. ; bracts 
3 lin. long, about 3-4 lin. broad, suborbicular or transversely oblong, 
very shortly and bluntly pointed, villous, ciliate ; perianth-tube 
1} lin. long, glabrous below, villous above; segments 3 lin. long, 
villous; limb 1 lin. long, lanceolate-linear, subacute, villous ; 
staminodes } lin. long, linear; filaments much swollen; style 
24 lin. long, narrowed to the base ; stigma truncate ; ovary 2 lin. 
long, ellipsoid, acute, pubescent, keeled on one side ; fruit narrowly 
obovoid, about 34 lin. long, ivory white, smooth and glossy. 
Meisn. in DO. Prodr, xiv. 217. L. cinereum, E. Meyer ex Meisn. 
l.c., not of R. Br. 
Coast Recron: Clanwilliam Div. ; Sneeuwkop Mountain, near Wupperthal, 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9075! Cedarberg Range, at Ezelsbank, Drége, a! 
11. L. elatum (Buek in Drage, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 74, 198); 
branches terete, glabrous or adpressed-pubescent ; young branchlets 
slender, shortly adpressed-pubescent or puberulous ; leaves }—1} in- 
long, 14-3} lin. broad, those of the male plant smaller than those 
