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5. — A Contribution to the Knowledge of the South African Proteacece. 

 No. I.— By E. P. Phillips, M.A., F.L.S. 



(With 1 Text-fig.) 



Since the publication of the monograph on the Proteaceae in the 

 " Flora Capensis," many species which are not completely known 

 have been more fully examined ; the majority of these were collected 

 by the Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition, and full descriptions will 

 be found in their next published Eeport. Besides the above-men- 

 tioned collection, the writer has been fortunate in describing from 

 fresh material a species of Protect, hitherto only known from a figure, 

 and two albino varieties of the same genus which up to the present 

 have not been recorded. We now know of 3 species of Protect which 

 have albino varieties. I also found preserved in the herbarium of 

 Dr. Marloth a species of Serruria, of which the type is probably lost 

 and which is only known from Meisner's description in the 

 Prodromus (DC. Prodr. xiv. 297). These few facts seem of 

 sufficient importance to have them recorded for future reference. 



LEUCADENDRON, R. Br. 

 Leucadenclron cinerum, R. Br., var. glabrum, Phillips. A fcypis 

 foliis plane glabris differt. 



Bush about 1 m. high. Branches terete, reddish, glabrous. 

 Leaves of the male smaller than those of the female ; the former 

 •9-18 cm. long, 1*5-3 mm. broad above, linear-spathulate, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; the latter 2-2-3 - 5 cm. long, 3 - 5 mm. broad above, spathulate- 

 linear, obtuse, glabrous. Male inflorescence 6 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, 

 globose; receptacle 3 mm. long, cylindric. Floral-bracts 2 mm. long, 

 lanceolate-linear, villous. Perianth-tube 2-5 mm. long, cylindric, pube- 

 scent above, glabrous below ; segments 2*5 mm. long, pubescent or 

 almost glabrous ; limb 1 mm. long, oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Anthers -75 mm. long, linear. Style 4-5 mm. long, filiform ; stigma 

 •5 mm. long, clavate. Hypogy nous-scales 15 mm. long, filiform. 

 Female inflorescence 1 cm. long, 1*3 cm. broad, globose ; receptacle 

 7 cm. long, cylindric. Bracts 4 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, transversely 

 oblong, villous. Perianth-segments 6 - 5 cm. long, villous, dilated and 



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