Leucadendron.) PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). 537 
with small adpressed hairs, becoming glabrous when older ; branch- 
lets pubescent or silky tomentose; leaves subequal in both sexes, 
those around the inflorescence longer than those below, gradually 
broadening at the base and passing into the bracts, 14-34 in. long, 
2—3 lin. broad, linear, conspicuously and acutely apiculate, gradually 
narrowed to the base, coriaceous, longitudinally striate, glabrous or 
pilose towards the base ; male inflorescences solitary at the apex of 
rather long lateral branchlets, 3—} in. long, 4-5 lin. in diam., 
nearly hidden by the broadened coloured bases of the surrounding 
leaves ; bracts ? lin. long, obovate, concave, glabrous, ciliate above ; 
perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 1} lin. long, spathu- 
late-linear, glabrous ; limb } lin. long, elliptic or oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous ; anthers } lin. long, oblong ; style 1 lin. long, cylindrie- 
filiform, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, clavate, obtuse ; hypogynous 
scales } lin. long, filiform ; female inflorescence terminal, conical, 
? in. long, } lin. in diam. ; bracts 2} lin. long, 4 lin. broad, trans- 
versely oblong, narrowed to the base, densely tomentose in the 
upper half, ciliate ; perianth-segments 1} lin. long, linear, glabrous ; 
limb 3 lin. long, obovate, glabrous ; style 1 lin. long, linear, filiform 
below, glabrous ; stigma terminal, truncate; ovary 1} lin. long, 
1} lin. broad, flattened, suborbicular, glabrous; old female heads 
cylindric-ellipsoid, 14 in. long, 1 in. in diam. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 221. Lz. salignum, var. longifolium, Meisn. l.c. 223. 
SourH AFrrica: without locality, Hohenacker ! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; Witzen Berg, Burchell, 8648! George Div.; 
near George, Drége, 8044! forest near Touw River, Burchell, 5727 ! Swellendam 
Div. ; Puspas Valley, Voormansbosch, Zeyher, 3646! Knysna Div. ; on the Paarde 
Berg, Burchell, 5193! Millwood Goldfields, Tyson! Uniondale Div. ; near 
Avontuur, Bolus, 2450! Humansdorp Div.; Witte Els Bosch, Galpin, 4445! 
Uitenhage Div. ; Van Staadens, near Port Elizabeth, Paterson, 891! between 
Maitland and Van Stadens River, Burchell, 4646 ! 
36. L. adscendens (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 61); a low- 
growing shrub 9-12 in. high; branches slightly angular, glabrous 
or rarely adpressed-pubescent ; leaves on the branches much smaller 
and narrower at the base than those surrounding the inflorescence, 
the former }—1 in. long, narrowly oblanceolate, the latter 1}—24 in. 
long, in the male narrowly linear-oblanceolate, in the female lanceo- 
late or linear-lanceolate, all hardened but scarcely apiculate at the 
apex, coriaceous, glabrous and longitudinally striate on both 
surfaces; male inflorescences solitary, terminal, conical or sub- 
globose, $—} in. long, 3-3 in. in diam. ; bracts 2 lin. long, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, villous ; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 
1} lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous; limb } lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse, glabrous; anthers } lin. long, oblong; style 1 lin. long, 
filiform-cylindric, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, clavate ; hypogynous 
_ Scales 4 lin. long, filiform ; female inflorescences terminal, solitary, 
ellipsoid or subglobose, about 1 in. long and } in. in diam. ; bracts 
1} lin. long, ovate, obtuse, pubescent, ciliate ; perianth-segments 
imbricate, the two lateral exterior, 2} lin. long, linear, narrowed 
