Leucospermum.] PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 617 
Leucadendron conocarpodendron, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ic 93; Berg. in 
Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 321; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 
358. L. crassicaule, Knight, Prot. 55. Protea conocarpa, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 22; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 126; Lam. Ill. i. 239, t. 53, 
Jig. 3; Poir. Encycl. v. 656. P. tortuosa, Salish. Prodr. 48.—Leuca- 
dendro similis Africana arbor, etc., Pluk. Phyt. t. 200, fig. 2 (leaf 
only). Conocarpodendron, folio crasso, nervoso, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. 
Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 196, t. 196. Scolymocephalus africanus folio 
crasso, etc., Weinm. Phyt. iv, 292, t. 899, fig. b. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Roxburgh! Sieber, 6! Ludwig ! 
Thom! Forster! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Mountains and Flats around Cape Town, Burchell, 
400! 809! 8517! Brown! Bowie! Drége! Ecklon, 3201 470! Zeyher! Milne! 
MacGillivray, 640! Wright! Harvey, 702! Bolus, 2909! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 774! Wilms, 3554! Wolley-Dod, 570! Rogers, 3001! Phillips! 
Caledon Div. ; between Houw Hoek and Palmiet River, Burchell, 8170! Zana- 
fontein, Galpin, 4462 ! 
This is the ‘‘ Kreupelboom” or ‘‘ Poudboom”? of the Dutch. The reddish, 
tough but soft wood is used for waggon felloes, and for making charcoal. The 
bark yields good material for tanning. 
5. L. glabrum (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 331); an erect 
shrub, up to 6 ft. high ; branches very minutely tomentose, some- 
times with a few long spreading hairs; leaves scattered or 
moderately crowded, more or less exposing the stem, the uppermost 
loosely surrounding the flower-heads, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 
coarsely 8-13-toothed at the apex, rarely less than 8-toothed or 
entire, with the teeth subacute with a callous point, narrowed at 
the base, 2—4 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, glabrous or more or less 
puberulous to shortly villous at the base, distinctly veined ; heads 
golden-yellow, solitary, subsessile or shortly peduncled, about 2} in. 
long excluding the styles and about as wide, with an obscure 
involucre of few barren bracts; receptacle conic-cylindric, over 
1 in. long; peduncle stout, rarely up to 4 in. long, with ovate 
_ subulate-acuminate bracts, tomentose below, hirsute above, up to 
6 lin. long ; involucral bracts similar to those of the peduncle, but 
more caudate-acuminate and very densely hirsute-tomentose all 
over, passing into the broad-obovate, abruptly caudate floral bracts, 
up to 7 lin. long and 33 lin. wide; adult flower-bud up to over 
1} lin. long; perianth-tube 5 lin. long, glabrous; adaxial and 
lateral claws permanently connate into a concave or more or less 
flattened-out slightly flexuous sheath with the exception of the 
upper part which is at length generally free for 1-2 lin. and 
variously bent or recurved, with long scattered hairs along the 
margins, otherwise glabrous below and finely fulvous-tomentose 
upwards ; abaxial claw coherent at the upper end with the sheath 
or at length quite free, hirsute and finely fulvous-tomentose all over 
except at the more or less glabrous base; limbs oblong, acute, 
3 lin, long, red within, densely hirsute; anthers subsessile, oblong, 
2} lin. long ; hypogynous scales lanceolate-subulate to subulate, } lin, 
