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LEUCADENDRON argenteum. 
Cape Silver-T ree. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ProreaceR, a 
LEUCADENDRON. Supra, vol. 5. fol. 402. 
+. Nux ventricosa, stylo toto calyceque persistentibus. 
L. argenteum; arboreum, foliis lanceolatis argenteis: marginibus ramisque 
villosis, bracteis involucrantibus abbreviatis tomentosis, calycibus mas- 
culis sericeis. Brown in Linn. trans. 10. 52. 
Scolymocephalos africana, foliis sericeis argenteis longis acutis. Herm. cat. 
Conifera salicis facie folio et fructu tomento sericeo candicante obductis, 
semine pennato. Sloane in phil. trans. 17. p. 664. 
Argyrodendros africana, foliis sericeis et argenteis. Comm. hort. 2. p. 51. 
t, 26. , 
Protea, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis acutis hirsutis nitidis. Linn. hort. cliff. 
29, &e. 
Protea argentea. Linn. sp. pl. 137. Thunb. diss. p. 48. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 
529. Lam. ill. gen. t. 53. f. 1. 
L. argenteum. Burch. travels in Southern Africa, 1. p. 69., with an un- 
coloured figure of a branch in fruit. Spreng. syst. 1. 
Long as this plant has been cultivated in gardens, it 
so rarely produces flowers under cultivation, that a coloured 
figure of it is now for the first time presented to the public. 
Our drawing was made from fine specimens obligingly 
communicated to us by Mr. Miller, of Bristol, in June last. 
Like Mr. Brown, we have not been so fortunate as to 
see the female inflorescence. The plant now figured was 
a male. 
At the Cape of Good Hope ZL. argenteum is of great 
importance for fire-wood. Its only native station in 
the Colony is ‘‘ the sloping ground at the foot of the 
eastern side of Table Mountain,” where, and on the 
