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528 PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). [ Lewcadendron. 
leaves of both sexes subequal, }—-} in. long, acicular, obtuse or 
subacute, thick and coriaceous, glabrous; male inflorescences 
numerous, often crowded towards the apices of the shoots, }—} in. 
in diam., subglobose, with a few outer bracts ; floral bracts $—1 lin. 
long, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, shortly acuminate, obtuse or 
subobtuse, densely pilose or villous; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, 
cylindric above, gradually narrowed to the base, shortly villous ; 
segments 2 lin. long, spathulate-linear, pubescent ; limb $ lin. long, 
oblong or lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, shortly villous; anthers 
1 lin. long, linear; style 24 lin. long, very densely hairy in the 
lower part; stigma } lin. long, clavate, obtuse ; hypogynous scales 
14 lin. long, linear, acute ; female inflorescence solitary at the apex 
of each branchlet, about } in. long, ovoid ; bracts 2 lin. long, 44 lin. 
broad, tomentose outside; perianth-tube 14 lin. long, glabrous ; 
segments 2} lin. long, linear, villous; limb } lin. long, oblong, 
subobtuse, pubescent; staminodes } lin. long, linear-oblong ; 
hypogynous scales 2 lin. long, linear; ovary compressed, 1} lin. 
long, ovate, covered with long hairs; style cylindric ; stigma } lin. 
long, ellipsoid, obtuse ; fruit 24 lin. long, ellipsoid, bluntly beaked, 
villous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 228. L. stellare, Steud. Nomenel. 
ed. i. 475, L. stellatum, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 345. LL. canalicu- 
latum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei PA. Documente, 198, partly. 
L. brunioides, Meisn. l.c. 215, partly, excl. syn. L. meyertanum, - 
Buek. L. inflecum, Klotzsch, partly, fide Meisn. l.c. 216. L. tortum, 
var. inflecum, Meisn. l.c. L.? tenuifolium, Meisn. lc. 227. L. 
imbricatum, var.? canaliculatum, Meisn. l.c. 215, partly. Protea torta, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 31; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 130. P.. tenuifolia, 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 135. P. Thunbergii, Stewd. Nomenel. 
ed. 2, ii. 401. P. fusciflora, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. i. t. 27. P. 
stellaris, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 881. P. globularizfolia, Knight, Prot. 
30, partly. P. squarrosa, Knight, Prot. 127, partly. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Thom! Thunberg ! 
Coast Reeton: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Lange Valley and Oliphants River, 
Dréye! Worcester Div. ; near Worcester, Rehmann, 2511! Caledon Div.; by the 
Zondereinde River, near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3652! Swellendam Div. ; between 
Breede River and Zondereinde River, Burchell, 7489 ! 
21. L. sorocephalodes (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; branches terete, 
pubescent with weak whitish hairs; leaves acicular, 4—6 lin. 
long, scarcely 4 lin. in diam., terete, obtuse, glabrous ; male 
inflorescence not seen; female inflorescence terminal, solitary, 
ovoid-globose, a little over } in. in diam.; bracts about 6-seriate, 
3} lin. long, ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous except on the ciliate 
margin ; perianth-segments free to the base, 6 lin. long, dilated 
below, linear above, villous ; limb 2 lin. long, linear, subacute, long 
villous with rusty hairs ; staminodes } lin. long, linear ; style 2} lin. 
long, narrowed to the base, glabrous ; stigma oblique; ovary 1} lin. 
long, narrowly oblong, densely villous; fruits 3 lin. long, oblong- 
cylindric, slightly narrowed to the base, villous with rather weak 
