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534 PROTEACEA (Vhillips & Hutchinson). | Zewcadendron. 
comosum, R. Br. lc. 64. LL. ericifolium, Drége, partly, fide Meisn. 
Le. Protea polysperma, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 556. P. comosa, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 28, partly (specimen a of Herb.) ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 
517, partly; Lam. Ill. i. 23%, partly ; Poir. Encycl. v. 655, partly. 
SoutH ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div. ; Knoflooks Kraal and Little Houwhoek, Zeyher, 
3653! Donker Hoek Mountain, “Burchell, 8003! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, 
Bolus, 7868! Schlechter, 9635! Swellendam Div.; between Sparrbosch and 
Tradouw, Drége, ?. 
30. L. emulum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 64); an erect 
shrub, about 5 ft. high ; branches robust, erect, glabrous ; leaves 
}-2} in. long, $-3 lin. broad, acicular or linear-oblanceolate, acute 
or subacute, glabrous; male inflorescences small and subglobose, 
terminal, surrounded by numerous enlarged leaves ; bracts 1 lin. 
long, ovate, subacuminate, subacute, glabrous, ciliate ; perianth- 
tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 1} lin. long, linear, glabrous ; 
limb ? lin. long, oblong, obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous ; anthers 
4 lin. long, linear ; style 12 lin. long, filiform ; stigma } lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; female inflorescences terminal, 
about 14 in. long and } in. in diam., conical; bracts 14 lin. long, 
2? lin. broad, transversely oblong, shortly pointed, glabrous ; 
perianth-tube 1} lin. long, glabrous at the base, hirsute above ; 
lobes ? lin. long, broadly linear, hirsute; limb 4 lin. long, 
oblong, subacute, sometimes concave, glabrous ; staminodes 4 lin. 
long, linear; style 1} lin. long, linear, narrowed to the base; 
stigma cyathiform; ovary } lin. long, suborbicular ; hypogynous 
scales } lin. long, ovate, shortly pointed ; mature female heads 
persistent, 2} in. long, 1} in. in diam.; bracts spreading, rigid, 
glabrous or nearly so ; fruits compressed, broadly elliptic, winged, 
emarginate, 4} lin, long, 4 lin. broad, glabrous. EH. Meyer in Drége, 
Zwei Pfl. Documente, 117, 121, 124, 198; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 224. Protea comosa, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 28, partly (specimen 
B of Herb.) ; Linn. Syst. ed. xiv. 138, partly ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 129, partly ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 517, partly; Lam. Ill. i. 238, 
partly ; Poir. Encycl. v. 655, partly. P. (Leucadendron zemulum), 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 558, partly. P. amula, Poir. ex Ind. Kew. 
ii. 631, partly. 
Var. B, homeophyllum (Meisn. l.c.); leaves all of one kind on each shoot, 
acicular. L. abietinum, E. Meyer in Diége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 79, 81, 198, not 
y R. it Protea incurva, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 429. Chasme ramentacea, Knight, 
rot. 1/, 
Soutu Arnica: without locality, Thunbery! Gueinzius! Var. B, Ludwig! 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; summit of a peak near Swellendam, 
Burchell, 7352! George Div. ; Hooge Kraal River, Drege! Uniondale Div. ; 
between Avontuur and Klip River, in Lange Kloof, Drége! Var. 8: Worcester 
Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! ; 
According to Knight (l.c.) the variety 8 grows also in the mountains of Lange 
Kloof in Uniondale Div., wkere it was gathered by Niven and Masson. 
