616 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [Lewcospermwm. 
acumen, including the latter 6-7 lin. long and up to 34 lin. broad, 
densely tomentose up to a straight line across and just below the 
truncate top, this and the acumen shortly tomentose ; adult flower- 
bud rather under 1 in. long; perianth-tube 4 lin. long, glabrous ; 
adaxial and lateral claws permanently connate into a concave or 
more or less flattened-out sheath, about 6 lin. long, pubescent 
wlong the margins, abaxial claw free except towards the apex, 
hairy all over; limbs ovate-oblong, subacute, up to 2 lin. long, 
minutely hirsute; anthers subsessile, ovate-oblong, 1 lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales linear, acute, 3 lin. long; ovary oblong up to 
2 lin. long, densely and very finely whitish-pubescent, surrounded 
by whitish hairs, 2 lin. long; style about 13 lin. long, rather stout, 
acutely quadrangular above, glabrous ; stigma obliquely turbinate 
(hoof-shaped), face with a prominent longitudinal ridge; fruit 
unknown. 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 8586 ! 
4. L. conocarpum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 99); a shrub 
or small tree, 6-8 ft. high; branches stout, minutely woolly 
tomentose and at the same time softly hirsute with long hairs ; 
leaves crowded up to the flower-heads and surrounding them, 
usually concealing the stem upwards, obovate to oblanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse or acute, 4—9-toothed at the apex, very rarely 
entire, each tooth with a blunt callous point, 13-34 in. long, 4-14 
in. broad, at first more or less hirsute with long soft hairs, then 
glabrescent with the exception of the villous base and margins, 
prominently veined ; heads golden-yellow, usually solitary, rarely 
geminate, shortly peduncled, 2-23 in, long, excluding the styles 
about 14-2 in. in diam., with an obscure involucre of few barren 
bracts; peduncle very stout, up to $ in. long, with ovate sub- 
acuminate very hairy bracts; receptacle conic-cylindric, about 1 in. 
long; involucral bracts caudate-acuminate from an ovate base, 
8-10 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, fulvously villous or softly hirsute ; 
floral bracts ovate or obovate, and abruptly contracted into a 
linear or subulate acumen, densely hirsute to felted ; adult 
flower-bud about 14 in. long ; perianth-tube 4—5 lin. long, more or 
less finely pubescent above, otherwise glabrous ; adaxial and lateral 
claws permanently connate into a concave or more or less flattened- 
out flexuous sheath, 9-12 lin. long, like the free abaxial claw 
loosely and softly hirsute; limbs oblong, subacute, 3 lin. long, 
densely hirsute; anthers subsessile, oblong, almost 2 lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales linear, 1} lin. long; ovary oblong, 14-2 lin. 
long, greyish-pubescent, surrounded by whitish or yellowish hairs 
of the same length; style over 1? in. long, acutely quadrangular 
above, with secondary less prominent angles between the primary, 
glabrous ; stigma oblong-conical, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 8-grooved. 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 254; Roupell, Cape Flow. t. 6, fig. 1; 
Pappe, Silva Cap. 28; Sim, For. Fl. Cape, 297, t. 129, fig. ii. 
L. MacOwanii, Gandog. in Bull. Bot, Soc. France, x\viii. p. xeiv. 
