Leucadendron.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 525 
the male smaller than those of the female, the former 3-5 lin. long, 
narrowly linear-oblanceolate, the latter 4-1 in. long, linear, all 
obtuse at the apex, flattened, coriaceous, glabrous; male inflor- 
escence terminal, small, shortly pedunculate, about 4 lin. in diam., 
globose ; bracts 1 lin. long, oblong-linear, subacuminate, acute, 
villous ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, villous; segments 1} lin. long, 
spathulate-linear, villous ; limb } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, villous ; 
anthers } lin. long, linear; style 14 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; 
stigma 4 lin. long, clavate, acute ; female inflorescence broadly ovoid 
or subglobose, about 1 in. in diam. ; bracts 4 lin. long and broad, 
broadly obovate, white-villous outside ; perianth-segments 3? lin. 
long, dilated and keeled below, villous above; limb } lin. long, 
oblong, villous; staminodes } lin. long, linear ; ovary } lin. long, 
ovoid, covered with long hairs ; style 2 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous ; 
stigma flat, oblique; fruit 2} lin. long, obovoid, subacuminate, 
villous. Bot. Reg. t. 826; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 216 (eael. syn., 
Protea torta, Thunb., et spec. Zeyher, 3651). L. pedunculatum, Meisn. 
Le. L. pruinoswum, Mund fide Meisn. Le.? L. inflecum, Klotzsch 
(partly), fide Meisn. l.c. 215. Protea torta, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 
1, t. 401, not of Thunb.. P. cinerea, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 521, partly. 
P. densa, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 7, ace. to Link, Enum. 
Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 114. P. hirta and P. passerina, Hort. ex 
Meisn. lc. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Thom, 520! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Kars River Valley, Ludwig! Mund, 3! 
— Div. ; Bot River, Schlechter, 9452 ! 9453 ! Swellendam Div. ; Swellendam, 
‘appe ! 
16. L. ericifolium (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 66); branches 
terete, glabrous or shortly pubescent ; leaves ericoid, 3—5 lin. long, 
subterete, subacute, glabrous; male inflorescences small, about 
6-flowered, axillary, pedunculate, collected at the ends of the 
branchlets ; peduncle bracteate, about } in. long, shortly rusty- 
pubescent ; bracts } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, pilose ; perianth-tube 
} lin. long, cylindric, shortly villous ; segments 1} lin. long, pilose ; 
limb 1} lin. long, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, pubescent with 
glabrescent tips; anthers } lin. long, linear; style 1 lin. long, 
cylindric, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, clavate ; female inflorescences 
not known. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 225. LL. comosum, g, Buek 
in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 116, 198. L. scabrum, Steud. ex 
Meisn. L.c., not of R. Br. Protea ericifolia, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 
iv, 557. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Roxburgh ! ’ 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; between Sparrbosch and Tradouw, Dréze! 
17. L. abietinum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x, 64); a shrub 
about 3 ft. high, the female plant much resembling a small Abies ; 
branches terete, pubescent ; young branchlets hirsute, in the female 
plant arising in clusters from below the old persistent female heads ; 
