Leweadendron.| PROTEACEA: (Phillips & Hutchinson). 539 
cylindric, glabrous ; segments spathulate-linear, 1} lin. long, 
glabrous; limb 2 lin, long, narrowly oblong, obtuse, glabrous ; 
anthers } lin, long; style 13 lin. long, slender, glabrous; stigma 
clavate, 4 lin. long ; female heads oblong-ellipsoid, about } in. long, 
surrounded by a small involucre of short acuminate ciliate bracts ; 
floral bracts transversely oblong-elliptic, about 3 lin. long and 4 lin. 
broad, coriaceous, rather densely adpressed-pubescent across the 
middle, glabrous around the margin and near the base ; perianth- 
tube glabrous; segments linear, glabrous; staminodes very small ; 
ovary compressed, suborbicular, slightly emarginate, winged, about 
1} lin. in diam., glabrous; style 1} lin. long, glabrous; stigma 
clavate ; fruiting head about 1 in. long, surrounded by a few more or 
less coloured leaves ; fruit compressed, winged, suborbicular, slightly 
emarginate, 2} lin. in diam., glabrous. , 
Socta Arrica: without locality, Drége! Harvey! Bowie! 
Coast Recron: Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3648 partly! 
Knysna Div. ; Paarde Berg, Burchell, 5192! Uniondale Div. ; near Avuntuur, 
Bolus, 2448 ! 
38. L. meyerianum (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 70, 
198) ; branches terete, glabrous ; young branchlets rather slender, 
glabrous, purplish; leaves. subequal in both sexes, 1-2 in. long, 
4—1} lin. broad, linear, hardened at the apex into an obtuse mucro, 
rigidly coriaceous, glabrous and slightly glaucous; male inflo- 
rescences solitary or rarely 2 or 3 crowded together on short 
branchlets, broadly obovoid, 3-4 lin. long, 5-7 lin. in diam. ; 
bracts 2} lin. long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous; perianth-tube 2 lin. 
long, cylindric, glabrous ; lobes 2 lin. long, linear, glabrous ; limb 
% lin. long, oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous; anthers 1 lin. long, 
linear ; style 4 lin. long, narrowed to the base, coarsely pilose on 
the middle third; stigma flat, oblique; hypogynous scales 2 lin. 
long, filiform; female inflorescence solitary, terminal, surrounded 
by several leaves, ovoid, 3-4 lin. long, 3 lin. in diam. ; bracts 
2 lin. long, 2} lin. broad, ovate, subacuminate, subobtuse, concave, 
glabrous except for the long villous base ; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, 
compressed, villous; segments 1 lin. long, linear, glabrous; limb 
3 lin. long, oblong, subacute, incurved above, glabrous ; staminodes 
4 lin. long ; style 24 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed ; 
ovary } lin. long, ellipsoid, villous ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, 
linear ; fruiting head broadly ovoid, about 4 in. high and # in. in 
diam. ; bracts rusty-villous near the base outside ; fruit transversely 
oblong-ellipsoid, 24 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, slightly keeled, glabrous, 
black and wrinkled when dry. 
~Crnrrat Recion: Calvinia Div. ; Oorlogs Kloof, Schlechter, 10956! 10957 ! 
near Groen River and Waterval River, Drége ! 
Meisner, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 215, wrongly reduced this species to his 
L. brunioides = L. fusciforum, R. Br. 
39. L. concinnum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 61); branches 
terete, purple when dry, glabrous ; young branchlets of the male 
