Leucospermum.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 615 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. Protea nutans, Poir. ex Steud. 
Nomenel. ed. 2, ii. 400. 
SoutH AFRIca: without locality, Masson! Ludwig! Gueinzius! 
Coast Rreton: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek and Little Houw Hoek, Niven! 
Mund, 16! Bolus, 5237! Schlechter, 7332! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 
3678! Pappe! Zandfontein, Galpin, 4459! Bredasdorp Div. ; between Caledon 
and Elim, Bolus, 7858! Koude River, Schlechter, 9595! Swellendam Div. ; 
mountains near Swellendam, MacOwan, 2825; also from gardens at Cape Town, 
Burchell, 744 | and between Cape Town and George, Bowie ! 
2. L. mixtum (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 332); branches 
tomentose ; leaves oblong, coarsely 3-6-toothed or the lowest and 
some of the uppermost entire, subobtuse or obtuse at the base, 
3-41 in. long (or those near the base and the top of the branch 
14-2 in. long), 4-1} in. broad, glabrous or pubescent to minutely 
villous below and on the margins; heads solitary, without a 
definite involucre of barren bracts, peduncled, about 2 in. in diam. 
excluding styles ; peduncle about 1 in. long, with numerous, imbri- 
cate, often recurved, ovate, suddenly or gradually acuminate, 
tomentose bracts; receptacle cylindric ; floral bracts obovate to 
obovate-cuneate, abruptly contracted into a subulate acumen, 
6-7 lin. long, very densely tomentose up to the truncate and 
minutely tomentose top, then finely and densely pubescent ; adult 
flower-bud 1}-1} in. long ; perianth-tube 33-4 lin. long, glabrous ; 
adaxial and lateral claws permanently connate into a concave or 
flattened-out sheath about 8 lin. long, and flattened out up to 
2 lin. wide, pubescent along the margins, abaxial claw free except 
towards the apex, hairy all over ; limbs ovate-oblong, acute, 13-13 
lin. long ; anthers subsessile, oblong-ovate, 1 lin. long ; hypogynous 
scales, linear, obtuse, } lin. long ; ovary oblong, 1} lin. long, densely 
and very finely whitish pubescent up to or beyond the middle, 
surrounded by whitish hairs 1}-2 lin. long; style 2 in. long, 
rather stout, acutely quadrangular above, glabrous; stigma ob- 
liquely turbinate (hoof-shaped) ; face with a prominent longitudinal 
ridge. 
Sovrn AFrica: without locality or collector’s name ‘Kew Herbarium). 
This is possibly only an extreme variation of L. nutans, characterised by 
longer, relatively narrow and more toothed leaves with obtuse or subobtuse— 
not cordate—bases. The differences in the flowers are mainly connected with size. 
3. L. Bolusii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 330; not of 
Gandoger) ; branches greyish-villous ; leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse and bluntly 3—5-toothed at the apex, narrowed at the base, 
21-3} in. long, } to over 3 in. broad, minutely and densely greyish- 
tomentose, distinctly veined, not densely crowded below the flower- 
heads ; heads few at the end of the branches or solitary (?), without 
a definite involucre of barren bracts, peduneled, 2 in. long, about 
1} in. in diam. excluding the styles; peduncle 1-1} in. long, 
tomentose, loosely bracteate ; bracts ovate, acuminate, tomentose ; 
floral bracts broadly obovate, suddenly contracted into a subulate 
