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LEUCADENDRON corymbosum; mas. 
Corymbed Leucadendron; the barren flowered plant. 
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DIGCIA TETRANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Protem. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus 
monospermus. 
Protreacem. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, seqq- 
Div. I. Fructus clausus. A. ANTHERZ DISTINCTE: 4 corolla liberz. 
Flores dioict, (organis imperfectis.) Stigma femineorum obliquum, emar- 
ginatum, papulosum, Nux v. Samara sguamis dilatatis strobili inclusa. 
Masculi floes capitati. 
LEUCADENDRON. Masc. Flores Capitati. Cal. 0. Pet. 4, 
Staminifera. Frm. Stigma obliquum. » Nux vel Samara monosperma, squa- 
mis strobili inclusa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 373. 
Frutices ravd Arbores, seepe sericeo-tomentost. Folia intewerrima. Capi- 
tula terminclia, solitaria; bracteis imbricatis foliisve verticillatis et subcolo- 
ratis plerumque cincta. Id. in trans. linn. soc. 10. 51. 
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Div. Nux ventricosa v, lenticularis aptera, undique marginibusve pilosa. 
Stylus totus deciduus, basive solum remanenti. Corolla dit persistens 
quadrssartita. : a 
L. corymbosum, foliis lineari-subulatis imbricatis glabris, strobili squamis 
acutis apice recurvis, nucibus subcompressis obcordatis margine pilosis. 
Brown in Fort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 375. 
Leucadendron corymbosum. Berg. act. stockh. 1766. 325. Berg. cap. 23 ; 
mas. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 57. 
Protea corymbosa. Thunb. diss. n. 28; (deser. & mare pracipue) tab. 2; 
mas. Thunb. prod. 26. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 518. Lam. illustr. gen. 1. 
238. n. 1250. »Poiret encyc. bot. 5. 653. - Andrews?s reposit. 495 ; (fem.) 
Protea bruniades. Linn. suppl. 117. Mas, fid. spec. in illius Herb. 
Oss. Squamule 4 hypogyne in utroque sexi. 
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A greenhouse shrub from the Cape of Good Hope: 
whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1790. 
The drawing was taken from a specimen in the nursery 
of Messrs. Colville, King’s Road, Chelsea; where it formed 
a Slender upright proliferously branching plant about four 
feet in height. 
The genus is dioicous, that is, one where the fruitful 
flowers are borne on different plants, from those which bear 
the barren ones. 
The following is a note by Mr. Brown: “The separation 
“ of the plants with fertile from those with sterile flowers in 
“the genus Prorea of authors, obscurely suspected by 
