Leucadendron.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 549 
subacute, pubescent outside; perianth-tube 4 lin. long, cylindric 
above, ventricose at the base, thinly rusty-pubescent ; lobes 1} lin. 
long, glabrous; limb 4 lin. long, oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous; 
staminodes } lin. long, linear ; style 34 lin. long; stigma bifid ; 
ovary about | lin. long and 3 lin. broad, flattened, elliptic, thinly 
pilose ; fruits not seen. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 219. L. ciliatum, 
E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 116, 198. . L. concolor, 
Meisn. 1.c., partly, as to Zeyher, 3636. LL. concolor, var,? ciliatum, 
Meisn, lc. L. rugosum, Meisn. l.c. 227. Protea rugosa, Thunb. Fl. 
Cap. ed. Schult. 135. P. decora, Salisb. Prodr. 50 (teste Meisn.). 
P. ciliata, Desf. Tabl. ed. ii. 45 (name only). 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Brown! Zeyher! Drége | 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Burchell, 997! Caledon Div. ! 
Donker Hook Mountain, Burchell, 7984! Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3636 ! 
Bot River, Burchell, 937! Genadendal, Drége ! Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, 
Burchell, 7869! Uitenhage Div. ; between Maitland River and Van Stadens River, 
Burchell, 4647 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
56. L. angustatum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 54); a shrub ; 
branches straight, glabrous ; leaves few, erect, 8-9 lin. long, 1} lin. 
broad, linear-spathulate, obtuse, glabrous ; inflorescence subglobose ; 
scales ovate, the outer broader; perianth plumose ; fruit the size of 
a vetch seed, smooth, compressed, clothed with short indumentum. 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 214, incl. var. latifolium. L. lineare, Steud. 
Nomenel. ed. 2, ii. 34% Protea linearis, Houtt. Handi. iv. 116, t. 19, 
Jig. 2%; B. Br. Le. 217. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson. 
Known to us only from Brown’s description ; the type specimen does not 
appear to be in existence, but the figure of Protea fusciflora, which Brown 
thought was a variety of L. angustatum, is referred by us to L, fusciflorum, 
R. Br. 
57. L. caudatum (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 115); branches 
purple, hairy ; leaves 2 in. long, 6 lin. broad, lanceolate, with a 
callus at the apex, softly hirsute. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 698. 
SourH Arrica: described by Link from a cultivated plant. 
58. L. empetrifolium (Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xlviii. 
p. xeviii.) ; erect; branches puberulous ; leaves imbricate, 3 lin. 
long, “ ovate-linear,” dilated. at the base, shortly narrowed to and 
mucronulate at the apex, glabrous; heads 3-3} lin. in diam., 
sessile, globose ; floral bracts ovate-cuspidate, tomentellous outside ; 
corolla-tube shortly grey-pubescent ; stigma ovate, acute. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége. 
59. L. humifusum (E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 
64, 118, 198); branches purplish, glabrous ; leaves 1}-2} in. long, 
