618 PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). [ Lewcospermum. 
long ; ovary oblong, 1 lin. long, densely pubescent, surrounded by 
yellowish hairs up to 2 lin, long; style 2 in. long, acutely quadrangu- 
lar above with less prominent secondary ridges between the primary ; 
stigma conical, subobtuse, 2} lin. long, 8-grooved, carmine with 
yellowish or greenish tips. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund! . 
Coast Recion: George Div.; near Touw River, Burchell, 5726! 5754! 
Springfield and edge of the Forest near the Poort, Bowie! between Cape Town 
and George, Rogers! Knysna Div. ; Plettensberg Bay, Bowie! 
6. L. attenuatum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 96); a bush, 
3-5 ft. high; branches spreading, minutely tomentose, often with 
scattered long hairs or villous-hirsute, at length glabrescent ; leaves 
scattered, uppermost loosely surrounding the flower-heads, not 
much closer than the lower, oblong-oblanceolate, oblanceolate, rarely 
sublinear, truncate or subobtuse, 3—7-toothed at the apex, with 
usually short and broad teeth ending in callous tips, rarely entire, 
long cuneate at the base, 1}-3} in. long, } to over # in. broad, very 
stoutly coriaceous, indistinctly nerved, more or less rusty-pubescent 
to tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, excepting sometimes 
the base and lower margins ; heads solitary or geminate, 14—2 in. 
long excluding the styles, 11-14 in. wide, golden-yellow or tinged 
with red or almost red, peduncled, without a definite involucre of 
barren bracts; peduncle }—1 in. long, finely tomentose, bearing 
loosely imbricate, more or less spreading, ovate, acuminate, shortly 
tomentose bracts; receptacle cylindrical, 1-1} in. long; floral 
bracts ovate to obovate, acuminate or subacuminate, 3-3} lin. long, 
14-2? lin. broad, densely tomentose ; adult flower-bud about 1} to 
over 1} in. long; perianth-tube about 3-34 lin. long, glabrous 
below, densely and finely tomentose above; adaxial and lateral 
claws permanently connate into a concave or partly flattened-out 
sheath about 10 lin. long, excepting the upper part which is 
generally free for 1-14 lin. and variously bent or recurved, with 
(very rarely without) long scattered hairs along the finely fulvous-. 
tomentose margins, glabrous on the back at the base, finely 
fulvous-tomentose above; abaxial claw coherent at the upper end 
with the sheath or at length free, finely fulvous-tomentose and 
hirsute all over; limbs lanceolate, acute, 2 lin. long, finely 
tomentose and hirsute ; anthers subsessile, oblong, 1-1} lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales linear or cylindric, 3~1 lin. long; ovary oblong, | 
4 lin. long, densely pubescent below ; style 11-1} in. long, stout, 
quadrangular above with faint secondary ridges between the 
primary, glabrous; stigma conical or almost oblong, up to 1 lin. 
long, 8-grooved ; fruit ellipsoid-globose, whitish, 2 lin. long, sparingly 
and minutely puberulous. Roem, d& Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 357; 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 256 (inel. vars. Dregei and (?) ambiguum) ; 
Sim, For. Fl. Cape, 297, t. 131, fig. iii. L. Zeyheri, Meisn. Le. 
255 (inel. var. truncatum). LL. truncatum, Buek ex Meisn. Lc. 256. 
L. truncatum, var. septemdentatum, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
