330 CVIL. PROTEACE®. 
Glabrous, low shrubs, the flowering branches umbellate. Leaves narrow, 
sessile, quite entire.—2 species, Western. 
2. LEUCADENDRON, Herm. 
Flowers dicecious, both sexes in involucred heads, the female 
involucre cone-like. Calyx regular; segments bearing anthers 
in the concave apex. Stigma oblique, clavate, hispidulous, 
emarginate. Nut sometimes winged, enclosed within the 
scales of the cone-like involucre.—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 212. 
Trees or shrubs, silky, silvery, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves quite 
entire, mostly sessile. Heads terminal, solitary.—49 species, dispersed. 
3. PROTEA, Linn. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head many-flowered, invo- 
lucred with persistent, coriaceous, imbricate often-coloured 
bracts; receptacle flat or convex, mostly glabrous. Calyx 
elongate, slender, 2-labiate, 3 of its lobes cohering in one lip 
and mostly aristate, the fourth free; anthers sessile in the 
spoon-like apices of the perianth-lobes, linear, the connective 
mostly crested. Style subulate, persistent; stigma cylin- 
drical or subulate. Nut tailed by the style, rigidly hairy all 
over.—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 230. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves quite entire, flat or channelled, often mar- 
gined. Heads large, mostly terminal.—60 species, dispersed. 
4. LEUCOSPERMUM, R. Br. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head terminal, many-flow- 
ered, globose or oblong: receptacle flattish, paleaceous ; invo- 
lucre multiseriate, the bracteoles imbricated, appressed. Calyx 
1-labiate, (8 or rarely all) of the claws of the segments coher- 
ing, their spoon-shaped apices separate, antheriferous. Style 
filiform, deciduous; stigma glabrous, mostly much thickened, 
sometimes obliquely truncate, very generally angular or fur- 
rowed. Nut crustaceous, sessile, subglobose, smooth— DC. 
Prod. xiv. p. 253. 
Small trees or generally low shrubs, erect or trailing, with sessile, flat or 
concave, entire or callous-denticulate leaves and mostly terminal heads of 
yellow flowers.—23 Cape species, dispersed. 
5. MIMETES, Salisb. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head axillary, rarely terminal, 
few- or many-flowered, sometimes wrapped in a concave leaf; 
receptacle flat, with narrow, deciduous pale or 0; involucre 
many-leaved, membranous, rarely coriaceous, often coloured, 
multiseriate, imbricate or l-sided. Calyx regular, 4-parted, 
the segments distinct, antheriferous in the apices. 4 hypo- 
