Leucadendron] PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 529 
hairs. Sorocephalus Dregei, Buek in Drége, Zwei PA. Documente, 
117, 222; Meisn.in DO. Prodr. xiv. 305. Leucadendron ? scoparium, 
E. Meyer ex Meisn. 1.c. 
Coast Recton: Uniondale Diy. ; between Avontuur and Klip River, in Lange 
Kloof, Drége, c! 
22. L. radiatum (Phillips & Hutchinson); a robust undershrub 
about 2 ft. high ; branches spreading ; branchlets erect, straight, 
fairly stout, slightly sulcate, pilose with weak hairs ; leaves 3—$ in. 
long, 14-24 lin. broad, those surrounding the inflorescence a little 
larger, all oblanceolate, contracted at the apex into an obtuse 
short mucro, rigidly coriaceous, thinly pubescent on both surfaces, 
especially towards the margin; male inflorescences terminal, 
surrounded by several silky adpressed-tomentose leaves, subglobose, 
about 4 in. in diam. ; floral bracts 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, villous ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, villous ; segments 1} lin. 
long, spathulate-linear, coiled, pubescent ; limb 4 lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse, pubescent ; anthers } lin. long, linear ; style 2 lin. long, 
terete, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, clavate, subacute ; hypogynous 
scales } lin. long, filiform-linear; female inflorescence solitary, 
terminal, ovoid, about } in. long and in diam. ; bracts 14 lin. long, 
2} lin. broad, transversely oblong, tomentose ; perianth-tube 1} lin. 
long, split below, pilose ; segments ? lin. long, linear, villous ; 
limb } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, hirsute ; hypogynous scaies $ lin. 
long, linear ; style 1 lin. long, filiform, glabrous, obliquely inserted ; 
stigma small, truncate, minutely bifid ; ovary } lin. long, ellipsoid, 
glabrous ; fruiting head ellipsoid, about 1 in. long, 3 in. in diam. ; 
bracts about 15-seriate, transversely oblong, truncate, about 24 lin. 
long and } in. broad, adpressed-pubescent outside, becoming nearly 
glabrous at the tips; fruits not seen. 
Coast Recton: Riversdale Div. ; on the summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 
7110! 
23. L. dubium (Buek in Drige, Zwei Pf. Documente, 73, 198);’ 
branchlets very shortly pubescent; leaves closely overlapping, 
those of the male smaller than those of the female, the former 
2-3 lin. long, 1-1? lin. broad, the latter 3-7 lin. long, 1 —2} lin. 
broad, all obovate or those around the female inflorescence oblanceo- 
late, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, softly adpressed-pubescent on 
both surfaces, at length becoming glabrous; male inflorescences 
subcorymbose, solitary and terminal, scarcely } in. in diam., 
surrounded by several broad purple bracts ; floral bracts 24 lin. 
long, oblanceolate-spathulate, pubescent, ciliate ; perianth-tu 1} 
lin. long, cylindric, pilose ; segments 1} lin. long, pilose ; limb } lin. 
long, oblong, subacute, glabrous ; anthers 3 lin. long, linear ; style 
2 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, oblong-cylindric ; 
hypogynous scales? ; female inflorescences hidden by the coloured 
bract-like leaves ; floral bracts 4-5 lin. long, oblong, shortly and 
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