PROTEACEZ. 421 
much compressed, in female laterally 2-labiate, stigmatiferous. Nut 
exserted, bearded, 1-seeded.—Glabrous shrubs; leaves alternate ; 
male flowers in naked, slender, terminal racemes; female capitate, 
involucrated by subulate or leaf-like scales, and often surrounded by 
short 1-flowered twigs (South Africa’). 
35? Dilobeia Dor.-Tu.?— Flowers regular, diecious. Male 
flower: Perianth 4-leaved; leaves acute, valvate. Stamens 4; 
hypogynous filaments short, erect; anthers oblong; connective 
apiculate; cells 2, introrse rimose. Germen free barren; style 
linear compressed, longitudinally grooved. Female flowers and fruit 
unknown.—A lofty tree; leaves alternate, petiolate, long-cordate, 
narrowed at base, 3-ribbed, veined, coriaceous-glabrous ; midrib pro- 
longed between 2 lobes into a terminal gland; flowers crowded on 
branching spikes in axils of leaves of upper branches; bracts 1- 
flowered (Madagascar"). 
36. Leucadendron Hzrrm.:—Flowers regular, dicecious ; perianth- 
leaves 4, free or connate at very base. Anthers 4; in female flower 
either linear gland-like, or with 2 sterile cells; in male flower polleni- 
ferous, introrse 2-rimose. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 
often compressed-3-gonous; ovule 1, hemitropous or anatropous, 
ascending ; style slender, subclavate or obliquely capitate, stigma- 
tiferous. Nut wingless or samaroid, 1-seeded—Trees or shrubs ; 
leaves sessile or petiolate, simple, entire, often heteromorphous (often 
silky); flowers terminal capitate; involucre pluri- or 1-seriate; 
bracts leafy, or more rarely coloured, often finally subligneous in 
fruit, subconnate at base (South Africa’). 
37. Nivenia R. Br.'—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite ; perianth- 
1 Species 2. L., Spec., ed. 1, 91 (Leucaden- dendros Herm. Cat. Pluk, — Conocarpus 
dron).—Tuuns., Diss. 43, 46; Fl. Cap., 128 
(Protea). —L. Fi1., Suppl., 118.—Burm., Afr., 
193, t. 70, fig. 3 (Protea).—Lamx., Lll., i. 237. 
—Po1r., Dict., Suppl., v. 650 (Protea).—ANDR., 
Bot. Repos., t. 248 (Protea). 
2 Gen. Nov, Madag. 21.— Envt., Gen., 
n. 6846.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 243. 
3 Species 1 or 2. Ram. & Scu., Syst., iii. 
476, n. 580. 
4 Ex Pruxen., Phyt., t. 200, fig. 1—R. Br., 
in Trans. Linn. Soe., x. 48, 50.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 2120.—Muissn., Prodr., 212, 698.—Leuca- 
Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 284.—Argyrodendron 
Comm., Hort., ii. 51, t. 26.—Gissonia Saxisz., 
Par. Lond., t. 5'7.—Chasme Satiss., loc. cit.— 
- Buryspermum Sautss., loc. cit., t. 75. 
5 Species about 60. L., Mantiss., 194 (Protea). 
—Tuuns., Fl. Cap., 180 (Protea).—Bzra., in 
Act, Holm. (1766), 324 (Protea).—Lamx., Ill., 
i, 234.—Porr., Dict., Suppl., iv. 455 (Protea). 
6 In Trans. Linn. Soc., x. 48, 133.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 2127.—Muissy., Prodr., 299, 698.— 
Paranomus Sauiss., Par. Lond., 67. 
