540 PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zewcadendron. 
rather slender, of the female a little stouter ; lower leaves 14-1 in. 
long, 3-7 lin. broad, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or 
subacute, coriaceous, glaucous, with hairy tips and margins especially 
when young, otherwise glabrous ; leaves surrounding the female . 
inflorescence about 2} in. long ; male inflorescences scarcely } in. in 
diam., subglobose, surrounded by about 2 series of bracts, the latter 
2-3 lin. long, ovate, very long-acuminate, acute, glabrous ; floral 
bracts 14 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, villous ; perianth-tube } lin. long, 
glabrous ; segments 2} lin. long, glabrous ; limb # lin. long, elliptic, 
subobtuse, glabrous; anthers } lin. long, linear ; style 2} lin. long, 
terete, very slightly narrowing above, glabrous ; stigma 3 lin. long, 
clavate ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear; young female head 
6 lin. long, subglobose ; bracts 11-1} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate 
or semicircular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, velvety-tomentose ; 
perianth-segments 13 lin. long, slightly imbricate, spathulate-linear, 
glabrous ; limb } lin. long, oblong, subacute, incurved at the apex ; 
staminodes } lin. long, oblong; hypogynous scales } lin. long, 
linear ; style 1} lin. long, swollen and semiterete above, becoming 
compressed and linear below, glabrous ; stigma oblique ; ovary 4 lin. 
long, ellipsoid, glabrous. Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 222. L. bueki- 
anum, Meisn. l.c. 214, partly, as to spec. Drége, b. L. discolor, Buek 
in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 198, partly, as to spec. Drége, b. 
L. glabrum, var. obtusatum, Meisn. l.c. 221, partly. Protea concinna, 
Poir. Encyel. Suppl. iv. 556. 
Var. 8, latifolium (Meisn. 1.c. 223) ; glabrous ; leaves elliptic-oblong, with an 
acuminate callus. L. acuminatum, Buek in Dréje, Zwei Pf. Documente, 198. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Jackalls Vley, Niven! Pakhuis Pass, Bolus, 
9076! Leipoldt, 266! Rondegat, Schlechter, 10787! Olifants River, Drege, 
2408c, 2 ! Schlechter, 7990! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drege, 2408a ! 
Bosch Kloof, Dréye, 2408b! Var. 8: Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Dréze. 
We have not seen the variety, which was founded on a fragmentary sterile 
specimen in Sonder’s Herbarium. 
40. L. decurrens (R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 59); a decumbent 
undershrub much branched from the base; branches subterete, 
glabrous (rarely thinly pilose, Schlechter, 5227); leaves erect or 
suberect, those surrounding the inflorescence longer than those on 
the shoot, the latter 1-14 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, the former 
14-14 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, all oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 
contracted at the apex into an obtuse hardened mucro, gradually 
narrowed to the base, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous; male inflo- 
rescences solitary at the ends of the crowded branchlets, sub- 
globose, }-1 in. in diam.; bracts 2 lin. long, ovate, subacute, 
glabrous, the inner 3 lin. long, ligulate ; perianth-tube 4 lin. long, 
cylindric, glabrous; segments 3 lin. long, linear, glabrous ; limb 
1} lin. long, oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous ; anthers 1} lin. long, 
linear ; style 54 lin. long, filiform, villous below ; stigma 4 lin. long, 
cylindric; hypogynous scales 3 lin. long, filiform ; female inflo- 
