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614 ~ PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [ Lewcospermum. 
Leaves imbricate, but usually not so close as to 
conceal the stem, sometimes loosely scattered, 
oblanceolate to oblong-linear ... Ae ... (26) puberum, 
Stigma clavate or cylindric : 
Leaves more or less distinctly veined, more or less 
glabrescent, but rarely quite glabrous when 
adult ; flower-heads with a distinct involucre 
of barren lanceolate bracts : 
Heads rather lax, turbinate ; fruit not beaked ... (27) royenifolium. 
Heads very compact and many-flowered, hemi- 
spherical ; fruit with a distinct conical beak (28) prostratum. 
Leaves veinless, glabrous when adult; flower-heads 
with a scanty involucre of few barren bracts: 
Leaves obovate to spathulate, about 12 by 3-4 lin. (29) cartilagineum. 
Leaves spathulate-linear to linear : 
Leaves about 6 by 1-1} lin.; floral bracts 
tomentose ; perianth 43-5 lin. long ... (80) obtusatum. 
Leaves 9-15 by 1 lin.; floral bracts glabrous 
excepting at the ciliate margins ; perianth 
not much over 3 lin. long ... ee ... (31) zwartbergense. 
1. L. nutans (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 98); shrub, 4 ft. 
high ; branches minutely woolly tomentose ; leaves ovate, oblong 
or subelliptic, obtuse, rounded or truncate at the apex, entire or 
callously 2—4-toothed, cordate at the base, 1-23 in. long, $—1} in. 
broad, dull green, almost glaucous, distinctly veined, glabrous or 
minutely crisped-pubescent when young, usually decreasing in 
length upwards; heads solitary, without a definite involucre of 
barren bracts, peduncled, 14-2 in. in diam. excluding the styles ; 
peduncle 6-9 lin. long, tomentose, with numerous imbricate, often 
recurved, ovate, suddenly or gradually acuminate, tomentose bracts ; 
receptacle cylindric, about 9 lin. high, 3 lin. in diam. ; floral bracts 
broad ovate or obovate to obovate-cuneate, suddenly contracted 
into a subulate acumen, 4-6 lin. long, very densely and long- 
tomentose up to the truncate and minutely tomentose top, acumen 
finely tomentose and ciliate ; adult flower-bud almost 1 in. long; 
perianth-tube 3-4 lin. long, glabrous; adaxial and lateral claws 
permanently connate into a concave or flattened-out sheath 6-7 lin. 
long, and flattened out over 1 lin. wide, shortly villous or pubescent 
along the sides only, abaxial claw free except towards the apex, 
hairy all over; limbs oblong-ovate, subacute, 1} lin. long ; stamens 
subsessile ; anthers oblong-ovate, 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales 
linear, obtuse, 3 lin. long; ovary oblong, 3 lin. long, very finely 
pubescent, surrounded by whitish hairs, 1J-2 lin. long; style 
nearly 2 in. long, rather stout, acutely ‘quadrangular above, 
glabrous ; stigma obliquely turbinate (hoof-shaped), face with a 
prominent longitudinal ridge ; fruit subglobose, 34 lin. long, very 
sparsely puberulous. Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 253. L. Meisner 
and L, nutans, var. integrum, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, x\viii. 
p. xciv. Leucadendrum cordifolium, Knight, Prot, 54, L. nutans, 
