Leucadendron.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). 535 
31. L. Dregei (E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 64, 
198); branches stout, shortly adpressed-pubescent ; leaves acicular, 
1-1} in. long, acute or subacute, glabrous when mature, pilose 
with weak spreading hairs when young; male flowers not known ; 
female head terminal, solitary, about 14 in. in diam., ellipsoid- 
globose ; bracts rigidly coriaceous, ovate, shortly adpressed-pubes- 
cent in the lower, glabrous in the upper half; perianth-tube 2 lin. 
long, ventricose at the base, membranous, glabrous ; segments 4 lin. 
long, linear, long-villous ; limb 3 lin. long, linear, villous; stami- 
nodes } lin. long, linear; style 5 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; 
stigma minutely bifid; fruit 2} lin. long, obovoid, not winged, 
pilose. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 217. 
oF ecnage Recion: Prince Albert Div. ; Zwartberg Range, near Vrolykheid, 
rége ! 
32. L. Galpinii (Phillips & Hutchinson); branchlets of the 
male rather slender, of the female stouter, finely pubescent, rather 
sharply angular when young, at length becoming terete ; leaves 
of the male slightly smaller than those of the female, the former 
4-1 in. long, 1-14 lin. broad, the latter 1-1} in. long, 1-1? lin. 
broad, all linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, flat, longitudinally striate or 
wrinkled, glabrous on both surfaces; male inflorescences solitary 
and terminating short lateral branchlets, 1—} in. in diam., globose ; 
bracts } lin. long, lanceolate, densely villous ; perianth-tube 1 lin, 
long, cylindric, pubescent; lobes 1} lin. long, pubescent; limb 
4 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute, pubescent; anthers } lin. long, 
linear ; style 12 lin. long, filiform, hairy below ; stigma } lin. long, 
ellipsoid or clavate; female inflorescence 3-1} in. long, }-1 in. 
in diam., oblong-ellipsoid ; bracts 3 lin. long, 5 lin. broad, villous 
at the base, otherwise pubescent, ciliate ; perianth-segments 4 lin. 
long, widened, membranous and glabrous below, villous above ; 
limb | lin. long, linear ; style 2} lin. long, cylindric-tiliform, with 
_a few long hairs at the base ; stigma truncate or minutely bifid at 
the apex ; ovary 1} lin. long, elliptic, long hairy. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thom, 69! 71! 538! Bowie! 
~ Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div. ; Milkwoodfontein, Galpin, 4439 ! 
33. L. ramosissimum (Buek ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 221) ; 
branches slightly sulcate, puberulous ; young branchlets more or 
less rusty adpressed-pilose ; leaves 14-24 in. long, 14-2} lin. broad, 
oblanceolatedinear, contracted at the apex into a rather long sharp 
mucro, chartaceous, glabrous or slightly pubescent; male heads 
surrounded by a few leaves the inner of which gradually become 
shorter and broadened at the base, ovoid-triangular or subglobose, 
about } in. in diam.; floral bracts ? lin. long, oblong, subacute, 
villous and ciliate on the upper half; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, 
subcompressed, pilose; segments 1} lin. long, spathulate-linear, 
pilose ; limb } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, pilose ; anthers | lin. long, 
