Classification of Plants 289 



Erect or prostrate shrubs or trees. Mostly in the south-western 



Fig. 260. — Staminate cones of the Silver Tree, Leucadendron argenteutn, 

 R. Br. (Photograph by E. J. Steer, Esq.) 



parts of Cape Province but also extending northwards, 

 north of the Equator. About a hundred species. 



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A few are found 



