^20 . CXI. PKOTEACE^. [Leucadendron 



A shrublet, ^ 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, cUiate or 

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

 brbad ; 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-ciKate 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 2|- in. long ; perianth densely shaggy with white spreading 

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

 exaristate, ^ 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 ^ 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 Morro de Lopollo, Feb. and March 1860, in 

 company with species of terrestrial Uiricularia, 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 ; f r. May 1 860. 

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

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

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



6. L. petiolare. 



Frotea petiolm-is Welvv. ex Engl., I.e., p. 197. 



A tree, 12 to 20 ft. high ; trunk ^ to li 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 elliptical, 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 i to 1^ 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 l^ to 2^ in. long, partly shaggy at the back 

 with long pilose hairs, theilimb I to |- in. long, quite glabrous or 

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

 style 1| in. long, glabrous, straight but at the insertion of the 

 stigma slightly sigmoid ; stigma ^ in. long, capitellate. 



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



