Lewadendron.| PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). 547 
coriaceous, densely villous along the margins, prominently nerved ; 
male heads subglobose, }—1 in, in diam., surrounded by a rosette of 
leaves and a few ciliate but otherwise glabrous bracts ; floral bracts 
2 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, villous ; perianth-tube 2 lin. 
long, cylindric, glabrous; segments 1} lin. long, spathulate-linear, 
glabrous; limb 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; anthers % lin. long, 
linear-oblong; style 3 lin. long, filiform; stigma } lin. long, 
clavate, minutely bifid; young female inflorescence not seen; old 
female head subglobose, about 2 in. in diam. ; bracts reflexed, 
leathery, tomentose outside; fruit obovoid, slightly flattened, 
truncate at the top, 34 lin. long and broad, black, smooth, glabrous 
except for a ring of rust-coloured hairs around the base. Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 219, excl. vars. and Zeyher 3636. Protea 
arcuata B, Lam. Il.i. 234. P. globosa, Andr. Bot, Rep. t. 307 ; Bot. 
Mag. t. 878. P. strobilina, Don ea Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 401, 
fide Meisn. l.c. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Kasteels Berg, Wolley-Dod, 1786! Table Mountain, 
Bolus, 2910; Kommetjes, Galpin, 4447! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, 
Zeyher, 3638 ! 
53. L. venosum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 59); a shrub 
about 4 ft. high ; branchlets terete, softly villous-tomentose ; leaves 
oblanceolate, with a subacute callous apex, narrowed to the base, 
14-3} in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, often a little 
glaucous, glabrous, distinctly trinerved from above the base ; male 
heads with a distinct involucre of 2—3-seriate bracts, depressed- 
globose, about 1 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts broadly ovate, the 
outer shortly cuspidate, all coloured and glabrous, up to 4 in. long ; 
perianth-tube glabrous, 4 lin. long ; segments linear, 24 lin. long, 
} lin. broad, glabrous ; anthers 14 lin. long, linear ; style linear, 
glabrous ; female heads when young very similar to the male ; 
bracts 3 lin. long, 6 lin. broad, very broadly triangular-ovate, 
glabrous in the upper part, with a dense fringe of rust-coloured 
hairs in the lower part ; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, villous, glabrous 
at the base; lobes 1 lin. long, linear, glabrous; staminodes } lin. 
long, linear ; style 3 lin. long, narrowed to the base ; stigma bifid ; 
ovary 1} lin. long, obovoid, glabrous ; hypogynous scales 2 lin. long, 
linear ; fruiting head ovoid-globose, about 14 in. long and 2 in. in 
diam. ; bracts 4 in. long, nearly ? in. broad at the base, densely 
rusty-villous in the lower half; fruit boat-shaped, 24 lin. long, 
4 lin. broad, about 24 lin. thick across the top, glabrous except 
for a ring of yellow hairs around the base. Mezsn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 220. 
Var. 8, oblongifolium (Meisn. l.c.) ; leaves 14-2 in. long, about 3 in. broad, 
obovate-oblong, with a small subacute. mucro at the apex; male heads globose ; 
bracts glabrous, scarcely ciliate ; perianth-tube sparsely pilose ; segments glabrous. 
Protea coriacea, Willd. ex Meisn, l.c. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Roxburgh ; 
Coasr Rearon : Tulbagh Div. ; Witzen Berg, Pappe! near betty prers 
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