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Branchlets pale yellow when fresh, pubescent, those of the female 

 densely leafy. Leaves of male and female differing in size ; those of 

 the male , 9-2 - 7 cm. long, 3-7 mm. broad ; those of the female 27-4 cm. 

 long (very rarely less), 1-1 4 cm. broad ; all oblanceolate, rounded or 

 obtuse above, narrowed to the base, glabrous, or sometimes the young 

 leaves of the female pilose beneath and of the male minutely pubescent 

 on the narrowed portion. Male inflorescence 1'2 cm. long, about 1 cm. 

 in diameter, solitary, terminal, surrounded by the upper leaves which 

 are longer than the inflorescence and which gradually merge into three 

 series of involucral bracts. Receptacle 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, 

 Involucral bracts 7 - 5-8 mm. long, 35 mm. broad, ovate, concave, 

 acuminate, obtuse, ciliate, pubescent without. Floral bracts 65 mm. 

 long, - 5 mm. broad, lanceolate above, narrowed into a long linear claw 

 below, villous on the lanceolate portion. Perianth-tube 6 mm. long, 

 cylindric, villous ; segments 4 mm. long, linear, glabrous; limb 2 mm. 

 long, linear. Anthers 175 mm. long, linear. Style 9 mm. long, 

 filiform-terete, villous on the middle third ; stigma 15 mm. long, 

 cylindric. Hypogynous scales 3*5 mm. long, linear. Female inflor- 

 escence 2 cm. long, about 2 cm. in diameter, globose, solitary, terminal- 

 surrounded by the upper leaves which gradually merge into two series 

 of involucral bracts. Beceptaclel cm. long, 7 mm. broad. Involucral 

 bracts 1*6-1'7 cm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, oblong, acuminate, obtuse, 

 greenish and glabrous below, brown and finely albo-pubescent above, 

 ciliate. Floral bracts 9 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, broadly ovate, concave, 

 very shortly and bluntly acuminate, obtuse, densely silky-pubescent 

 without. Perianth, segments 11 cm. long, linear. Hypogynous scales 

 yellowish, 2 - 5 mm. long, linear, obtuse. Ovary 15 mm. long, globose, 

 villous ; style 9 mm. long, linear, gradually broadened above, glabrous - t 

 stigma oblique and somewhat bi-lobed. Fruiting head about 3 cm. 

 long, globose. Bracts woody, deeply concave, densely tomentose, 

 villous below. Fruit 8 mm. long, 9 mm. broad above, subglobose, 

 black, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. 



Near L. decurrens, R. Br., from which it may be distinguished by the 

 branchlets and involucral bracts being pubescent and not glabrous, 

 and the perianth tube being villous. 



Named in compliment to Mr. N. S. Pillans, who first collected the 

 species. 



5. L. proteoides, E. Mey. Male inflorescence 6 mm. long, 1 cm. in 

 diameter, globose, sessile, solitary, terminal, surrounded by the upper 

 leaves. Involucral bracts 3-4-seriate, 3-35 mm. long, - 5-l mm. broad, 



