536 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Lewcadendron. 
oblong; style 14 lin. long, terete, narrowing above, somewhat 
flattened below, pubescent; stigma } lin. long, clavate, obtuse ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear; female flowers not seen. 
L. coniferum, Sieber, ex Meisn. l.c., 222. L. virgatum, Meisn. l.c., as 
to Sieber, 191, g. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Dréye, 8045! Sieber, 191! 
34. L. strictum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 60); a shrub 
5-7 ft. high ; lower branches yellow (Burchell) ; young branchlets 
terete, pubescent or puberulous ; leaves in the male smaller than 
those of the female, the former 1—2 in. long, the latter about 24 in. 
long, all 14~—2 lin. broad, linear, contracted at the apex into a long 
acute mucro about 1 lin. long, thinly and rigidly coriaceous or 
chartaceous, glabrous or thinly long-pilose towards the base, rather 
closely longitudinally striate ; male inflorescences numerous, solitary 
at the apices of short lateral branchlets, about } in. in diam., sub- 
globose ; bracts 4 lin. long, ovate, subacute, glabrous except for a 
small tuft of hairs at the apex ; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, glabrous ; 
limb 3 lin. long, oblong, subobtuse, incurved above ; anthers } lin. 
long, linear ; style } lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, 
cylindric ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, filiform ; female inflores- 
cences solitary at the apex of each branchlet, surrounded by several 
imbricate bract-like leaves, about 4 in. long and 4} lin. in diam., 
ovoid ; bracts 1} lin. long, 3-lin, broad, transversely oblong, rounded 
above, glabrous, scantily ciliate; perianth-segments compressed, 
1} lin. long, slightly imbricated, pilose ; limb } lin. long, oblong ; 
staminodes obsolete ; style 14 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 
ovoid, lateral; ovary } lin. long, obovoid, nearly glabrous; style 
obliquely inserted ; fruits 2} lin. long, 2} lin. broad, slightly com- 
pressed, oblong, a little emarginate at the apex, acute at the sides 
but scarcely winged, very sparingly setulose ; old persistent female 
heads 1}—1} in. long, 1} in. in diam., ellipsoid ; lower bracts 
recurved, the remainder spreading. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 221. 
L.? coniferum, Meisn. lc. 227, partly. Protea conifera, Thunb. Diss. 
Prot. 53 (as to specimen y) ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 135 (as to specimen y). 
P. conifera, Andr, Bot. Rep, t. 541. P. conica, Lam. Lllustr. 
. be 71, fide Meisn. Lee. Euryspermum salicifolium, Salish. Parad. 
i: i, 
SourH Arnica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; at the waterfall, Pappe! Paarl Div.; near 
French Hoek, Bolus, 6996! Caledon Div. ; Donker Hook Mountain, Burchell, 
8004! Nieuw Kloof, Burchell, 8158! Houw Hvek Mountains, Zeyher, 3648! 
Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, Drege! Riversdale Div. ; Gysmans Hoek, Muir, 
397, and in Herb. Galpin, 5300! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 5980! 
Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadensberg, Zeyher, 3650 ! 
35. L. eucalyptifolium (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 
123, 198); a shrub or tree 10-15 ft. high; branches slightly 
flexuous, subterete, pilose with weak hairs and minutely puberulous 
