920 CXI. PROTEACE^. [LeuGcidendron 



A shrublet, i to 1^ ft. high ; stems decumbent, densely leafy 

 throughout, often almost hidden among grasses, shaggy, rather 

 slender and wiry; leaves linear-oblong, mostly obtuse or sub- 

 apiculate at the apex, obtuse sessile and but little narrowed at 

 the base, coriaceous, rigid, thinly pilose on both faces, ciliate or 

 ciliolate on the quite entire margin, 1 to 2\ in. long by |- to f in. 

 broad ; heads of flowers very large in comparison with the size 

 of the plant, handsome, turbinate, fixed at a right angle to the 

 erect stems at the apex ; involucral scales from whitish rosy to 

 rosy purple, more or less obtuse, white-ciliate on the margin, the 

 outer ones short ovate whitish at length dusky red and longi- 

 tudinally plurisulcate-striate, the inner ones linear-spathulate or 

 lanceolate erect much longer than the perianth and ranging up 

 to 2i in. long ; perianth densely shaggy with white spreading 

 hairs^ snow-white, 1^ in. long or rather more ; the segments 

 exaristate, i in. long, shortly subulate-apiculate ; anthers \ in. 

 long or rather more, linear, glabrous ; pistil 2 in. long ; ovary 

 densely pilose with long stiff strong hairs, about \ in. long ; style 

 glabrous, tapering, about 1^ in. long; stigma 4 in. long, glabrous, 

 narrow, truncate, capitellate at the apex. 



HuiLLA. — On the wooded spongy slopes of pastures at an elevation 

 of 5200 to 5500 ft., in Mono de Lopollo, Feb. and March 1860, in 

 company with species of terrestrial Utricularia , Xyris, and Eriocau- 

 lonese ; fl. Feb. and March 1860. No. 1596. A dwarf, decumbent 

 undershrub ; heads comparatively very large, with white flowers. In 

 damp wooded pastures, above 5200 ft. of elevation ; fr. May 1860. 

 Coll. Carp. 121 and 895. In marshy very elevated meadows in 

 Morro de Lopollo ; fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 894. In Morro de 

 Lopollo ; fr. Perhaps this species Coll. Carp. 893. 



6. L. petiolare. 



Frotea petiolaris Welw. ex Engl., I.e., p. 197. 



A tree, 12 to 20 ft, high ; trunk ^ to 11 ft. in diameter at the 

 base ; crown obovoid-hemispherical, dilated, with spreading 

 rambling glabrate branches; branchlets puberulous or shaggy, 

 densely leafy ; leaves oblanceolate or narrowly ellij)tical, obtusely 

 narrowed at the apex, attenuate at the base, rigidly coriaceous, 

 glabrous, narrowly and acutely margined, petiolate, 3 to 6 in. 

 long (including the petiole of | to 1-J in.) by | to f in. broad, 

 subfalcate, venulose on both faces ; heads of flowers numerous, 

 more or less obliquely placed at the ends of the branchlets, globose, 

 whitish-rosy, handsome, almost hidden by the leaves ; involucral 

 scales glabrous or adpressedly silky or ciliolate, the outer ones 

 short ovate or semicircular, the inner ones narrowly obovate- 

 oblong, ranging up to 2^ in. long, longer than or equalling the 

 • perianth ; perianth 1^ to 2^ in. long, partly shaggy at the back 

 with long pilose hairs, the limb |^ to |^ in. long, quite glabrous or 

 obsoletely and sparingly bearded at the apex ; anthers ^ in. long ; 

 style If in. long, glabrous, straight but at the insertion of the 

 stigma slightly sigmoid ; stigma ?r in. long, capitellate. 



HuiLLA. — In open forests, on a sandy mould, in Morro de Lopollo, 



