Leucadendron.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 523 
of the female, narrowly oblanceolate, attenuate to the base, 
contracted at the apex into a small blunt hardened mucro, shortly 
adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, at length becoming nearly 
glabrous; male inflorescence terminating short branchlets, sub- 
globose, 4—5 lin. in diam. ; bracts 14--2 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate- 
oblong, acute, pubescent or pilose, ciliate; perianth-tube 1? lin. 
long, widening above, pilose; segments 1} lin. long, pubescent ; 
limb # lin. long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, pubescent; anthers 
3 lin. long, linear ; style 2 lin. long, cylindric, hairy in the lower 
half ; stigma clavate ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, filiform-linear ; 
young female inflorescences not seen; mature heads about 1 in. in 
diam. ; bracts about 5 lin. long and } in. broad, thick and hard, 
very broadly ovate, silky-tomentose outside, glabrous, shining and 
longitudinally suleate within ; fruits 3} lin. long, 4} lin, broad, 
about 24 lin. thick, transversely oblong-ellipsoid, with an obtuse 
rib around the edge, dull and almost black, rugose. Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 217. 
Coast Recron: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cedarberg Range, Ezelsbank, Drége, b! 
Schlechter, 8823 | 8824! Bolus, 5797! 
12. L. sericocephalum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 114) ; 
an erect shrub 2-4 ft. high; branches terete, villous with long 
weak hairs; leaves of the male much smaller than those of the 
female, the former }-1 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, the latter 13-2 
in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, all oblanceolate, contracted at the apex 
into an obtuse mucro, more or less adpressed-pubescent on both 
surfaces, those surrounding the female inflorescence silky-villous 
towards the base; male inflorescences depressed-globose, about 
4 in. in diam., surrounded but not hidden by a few leaves ; 
involucral bracts 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent, ciliate ; 
floral bracts 1} lin. long, oblanceolate, acute, densely pilose above, 
ciliate ; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, pilose ; segments 14 lin. long, 
spathulate-linear, pilose; limb 4 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, 
glabrous ; anthers } lin. long, linear ; style 2} lin. long, cylindric- 
filiform, pilose with long hairs ; stigma } lin. long, clavate-cylindric ; 
hypogynous scales 1} lin. long, linear ; female inflorescence nearly 
hidden by the surrounding leaves, about 1 in. long, ovoid ; bracts 
44 lin. long, 6 lin. broad, ovate, subacute, densely tomentose ; 
perianth-segments 6 lin. long, linear, imbricate below, long and 
densely villous; limb }4 lin. long, subacute, incurved above, 
glabrous ; staminodes } lin. long, linear ; hypogynous scales 1} lin. 
long, broadly linear ; style obliquely inserted, 5 lin. long, terete, 
widened near the apex, glabrous ; stigma oblique ; ovary | lin. long, 
ellipsoid, villous. 
Coast ReEGion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Zeekoe Vley, Schlechter, 8486 ! 8487 ! 
13. L. cinereum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 57); a shrub ; 
branchlets rather slender, subterete, adpressed-pubescent, at length 
