544 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Zewcadendron. 
globose, about 1 in. in diam., surrounded by an involucre of about 
2 series of bracts ; involucral bracts coloured, ovate, subacuminate, 
up to 44 lin. long and 3 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous except on 
the ciliate margin ; floral bracts 4} lin. long, oblong-lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate ; perianth-tube 4 lin. long, villous 
above; segments 3 lin. long, glabrous; limb 2 lin. long, linear- 
oblong, glabrous ; anthers 14 lin. long, linear ; style 5} lin. long ; 
stigma | lin. long; female head subglobose, scarcely 1 in. in diam. 
in fruit ; bracts in about 5 series, rusty-villous in the lower half, 
glabrous above; fruits transversely ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, 5 lin. 
broad, glabrous. 
Coast Recon: Clanwilliam Div.; near Honig Valley and on Koude Berg, 
Drége (L. concolor), aa! Worcester Div. ; Hex River Valley, Wolley-Dod, 4042 ! 
47. L. discolor (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 198, 
partly); branches purple, longitudinally sulcate, glabrous ; leaves 
1-1} in. long, 5—7 lin. broad, shortly oblanceolate, narrowed to the 
base, subobtuse at the apex, rigidly coriaceous, margin somewhat 
cartilaginous and shortly tomentose especially when young, those 
surrounding the female heads very broad and overlapping, broadly 
lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse, about 2 in. long and ? in. broad, 
with distinct nerves; male flowers not known; young female 
inflorescence not seen ; mature head subglobose or ellipsoid-globose, 
about 1} in. in diam. ; bracts about 10-seriate, oblong, rounded at 
the apex, 44 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, the lower half of each spreading 
and glabrous, the upper part ascending and _hirsute-tomentose 
outside, glabrous within ; seeds flattened and _ slightly 3-sided, 
winged, broadly obovate, 3 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, black, glabrous. 
L. buekianum, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 214, as to spec. 
Drége, c. ' 
Coast Recion: Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, Drége, 8038c ! 
48. L. squarrosum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 58); 
branches longitudinally wrinkled or sulcate, glabrous or minutely 
puberulous ; leaves be in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, oblanceolate, 
contracted into a hardened obtuse apex, rigidly coriaceous, very 
distinctly nerved, glabrous ; male heads subglobose, about } in. in 
diam., at first hidden by overlapping glabrous bracts ; floral bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, subacute, } lin. long, } lin. broad, coriaceous, . 
glabrous ; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 2 lin. long, 
spathulate, glabrous; limb 1 lin. long, obtuse; anthers linear- 
oblong, } lin. long; style 14 lin. long; stigma % lin. long, clavate ; 
young female inflorescence ovoid, about } in. long; involucral 
bracts glabrous ; floral bracts 2 lin. long, 2? lin. broad, ovate, obtuse, 
coriaceous, glabrous ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, compressed, glabrous ; 
segments 1} lin. long, linear, slightly widened at the apex, glabrous ; 
limb } lin. long, elliptic, glabrous; staminodes } lin. long ; style 
2 lin. long, gradually narrowed to the base, glabrous ; stigma some- 
