546 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Lewcadendron. 
Sour Ar¥rica: without locality, Thunberg! 
Coast Recton: Caledon Div. ; in the valley of the Palmiet River, near 
Grabouw, 700 ft., Bolus, 5528! © ; 
On Thunberg’s sheet of P. strobilina there are two species ; the right-hand 
specimen is the true plant and evidently the one described ; the left-hand one is 
L. spathulatum, R. Br. 
Protea lenta, Salisbury, Prodr. 50, is according to the author possibly identical 
with Protea strobilina, Thunb. ; the description, however, is too incomplete to 
decide the point. 
51. L. decorum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 58) ; branchlets 
terete, softly tomentose or pubescent ; leaves subequal in the two 
sexes, 3-21 in. long, 2-9 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or very 
slightly oblanceolate, contracted into a hardened subacute apex, 
rigidly but rather thinly coriaceous, ciliate, with a distinct midrib 
and several ascending lateral nerves; male inflorescence solitary, 
terminal, surrounded by several leaves, up to } in. long, 6-7 lin. in 
diam., ellipsoid-cylindric, longer than broad ; bracts 13-2 lin. long, 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, densely villous ; perianth-tube 13-2 lin. 
long, glabrous; segments 1? lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous ; 
limb 2-1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous ; anthers 4 lin. 
long, linear; style 23 lin. long, terete above, flattened below, 
glabrous ; stigma # lin. long, clavate, minutely bifid; hypogynous 
scales 1 lin. long, filiform; female inflorescence similar to the 
male; bracts 3 lin. long, 2} lin. broad, ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
hairy in the lower part, ciliate ; perianth-segments 2% lin. long, 
deeply channelled, glabrous or villous on the middle part of the 
keel ; limb } lin. long, ovate, concave, obtuse, glabrous ; staminodes 
1. lin. long, oblong; style 1? lin. long, linear, widened above, 
glabrous ; stigma oblique; ovary } lin. long, oblong, glabrous ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; fruiting head ellipsoid- 
cylindric, about 2 in. long and 1} in. in diam. ; bracts about 
20-seriate, broadly-obovate, shortly: and somewhat rusty-pubescent 
on the outside ; fruits flattened, elliptic, winged, about 2} lin. long 
and 1} lin. broad, glabrous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 218, 
including vars. Protea laureola, Lam. Ill. i. 234; Poir. Encyel. 
v. 641. P. venosa, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 134, not of Lam. 
P. venulosa, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 401 ; Meisn. lc. 247. P. mar- 
ginata, Willd. ex Meisn. I.c, 218. Euryspermum grandiflorum, Salish. 
Parad. 105% 
SoutH AFRICA: wi i ! 
prot tae pe x ponee locality, Hooker! Armstrong! Pappe! Thunberg ! 
Coast Recron: Cape Div. ; Mountains and Flats near Cape Town ; Masson ! 
Brown! Burchell, 290! 768! 8586! Ecklon, 44! Drége! Schmieterlich, 190! 
Wolley-Dod, 1789! Bolus, 3737! Tyson, 2982! Caledon Div. ; Grietjes Pass, 
Zeyher, 3635 partly! Grabouw, Bolus, 4203! Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, 
Burchell, 7846! 
52. L. concolor (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 58); branches 
lax-villous ; leaves 14-24 in. long, }—} in. broad, oblanceolate oF 
obovate-oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed to the base, 
