Leucadendron.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). 533 
bifid ; ovary 2 lin. long, elliptic, 4-angled, covered with long white 
hairs ; fruits obovoid, slightly 3-keeled, 1? lin. long, 1} lin. in 
diam., villous between the angles; bracts of the fruiting head 
transversely oblong, truncate or slightly emarginate, about } in. 
broad, villous outside. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 55; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 216. L. hirsutum, Hoffmansegg. Verz. Pfl. 72 ; 
Meisn. l.c. 227. Protea fusca, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 95. P. levisana, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 37 (eucl. var. y of Herb.) ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
135. P. tenuifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 49. P. hirsuta, Thunb. in Hoffm. 
Phytog. Blaetter, i. 12; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. iii. 355 ; Thunb. Fl. 
Cap. ed. Schult. 131. P. spatuleefolia, Knight, Prot. 31. P. hirsuta, 
Willd. ex Meisn. l.c. 216. Brunia levisanus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 289. 
Conocarpodendron, foliis subrotundis, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. Lugd. 
Bat. ii. 202, t. 202. Brunia foliis oblongis, etc., Burm. Pl. Afric. 
267, t. 100, fig. 2. Scolymocephalus seu Conocarpodendron foliis 
brevissimis, Weinm. Phyt. iv. 296, t. 904, jig. a. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Zeyher! Grey! Mund! Bergius! Sieber, 7! 
Thunberg |! Ecklon, 333! 352! Wallich & Hartman! Andersson! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Kommetjes, Galpin, 4448! Vygeskraal Farm, 
Wolley-Dod, 1866! Wynberg, Zeyher! Schlechter, 1695! Cape Flats, Bowie! 
Pappe! Zeyher, 4683! Burchell, 216! 696! Schmieterlich, 192! MacOwan, 2841! 
Zeyher, 3947 | Ludwig ! Zwart River near Rondebosch, Zeyher, 102! Stellenbosch 
Div.; between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8349! near Eerste River, 
Bolus, 4201! Caledon Div. ; Grabouw near Palmiet River, Bolus, 4196! 
29. L. platyspermum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 63); an 
erect shrub about 6 ft. high; branchlets yellow, more or less 
angular, glabrous; lower leaves 1}—2} in. long, linear, upper 
leaves 14-25 lin. long, 14-3} lin. broad, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 
all coriaceous and glabrous; male inflorescence terminal, small, 
about 4 lin. long and 2% lin. in diam., surrounded by a few larger 
leaves and several overlapping very hairy outer bracts; bracts 
3 lin. long, spathulate-linear, densely villous, ciliate ; perianth-tube 
3 lin. long, glabrous ; segments 1} lin. long, linear, pilose below, 
glabrous above; limb 3 lin. long, linear, glabrous ; anthers # lin. 
long, linear ; style 1 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma § lin, long, 
cylindric, acute ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, filiform; female 
inflorescences 1} in. long, 4 in. in diam., narrowly ellipsoid or 
conical, surrounded by numerous outer linear-lanceolate coriaceous 
very hairy bracts; floral bracts 1} lin. long, 4} lin. broad, semi- 
circular, glabrous ; perianth-tube 14 lin. long, compressed, dilated 
at the base, villous ; segments 3 lin. long, linear, glabrous ; limb 
1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous ; staminodes § lin. long ; style 
1 lin. long, linear, widened above ; stigma shortly 2-lobed ; ovary 
2 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, flattened, glabrous ; hypogynous scales 
1} lin. long, lanceolate or ovate ; old female heads persistent, 13-24 
in. long, 14-1} in. in diam. ; scales very rigid and thick, spreading ; 
fruits transversely oblong-elliptic, flattened, nucleus 4 lin. long, 
about 7 lin. broad, surrounded by a membranous wing about 1} lin. 
broad, shining, glabrous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 224.  L. 
