620 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [Zewcospermum. 
1 lin. long; style up to over 1} in. long ; stigma oblong, slightly 
wider at the base }~1 lin. long. 
Eastern Recron;: Natal or Zululand, Gerrard, 1664! 
8. L. incisum (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 331); branches 
minutely tomentose and long hirsute ; leaves very much crowded, 
concealing the stem, the uppermost close to the tlower-head, much 
reduced, ollong, coarsely and deeply 6—7- (rarely 5-)toothed towards 
the apex, with acute callously pointed teeth, obtuse at the base, 
2) in. long, }—3} in. broad, distinctly veined, glabrous except at the 
scantily pil se base and lower margins ; head subsessile, 24 in. long, 
over 2 in. in diam., with few barren bracts at the base ; receptacle 
cylindric, [4 in. long; barren and fertile bracts similar, ovate to 
obovate, gradually acuminate to subcaudate, including the acumen 
up to 8 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, very minutely tomentose below, 
glabrescent upwards, long-ciliate all round ; adult tlower-bud almost 
1} in. long; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, glabrous ; adaxial and lateral 
claws permanently united into a concave or partly flattened- 
out purple sheath revolute above, about 10 lin. long, hirsute 
along the margins, minutely and sparsely pubescent on the back ; 
abaxial claw adhering to the sheath or at length free, hirsute and 
pubescent all over ; limbs reflexed on the revolute top of the claw, 
oblong, acute, 2 lin. long, finely tomentose and hirsute, hairs partly 
red ; anthers subsessile, ovate-oblong, 1 lin. long, connective wide ; 
hypogynous scales linear, obtuse, } lin. long ; ovary oblong, densely 
and minutely pubescent; style 2 in. long, acutely quadrangular 
above with or without secondary ridges between the angles, 
glabrous ; stigma obliquely conic-ovoid, almost 1} lin. long, unequally 
grooved. 
Coast Rraion: Worcester Diy. ; Breede River Valley, near Darling Bridge, 
Bolus, 5285 ! 
9. L. ellipticum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn, Soc. x. 98) ; a sometimes 
very large dense bush, up to 12 ft. high; branches more or less 
hirsute and minutely tomentose; leaves much crowded up to the 
flower-heads, mostly erect and concealing the stem, sometimes 
spreading, oblong to elliptic or ovate-oblong, entire or 3- (rarely 5-) 
toothed at the apex with callous-pointed teeth, rounded or cordate 
at the base, 14-3 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, more or less distinctly 
veined, finely tomentose when young or glabrous or villous near the 
base ; heads greenish-yellow, tinged with red, solitary, peduncled, 
2-24 in. long, excluding the styles up to 24 in. in diam., with a 
definite short involucre of imbricate barren bracts ; peduncle t in. 
long, covered with closely imbricate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, very finely silky-pubescent, then glabrous, ciliate bracts ; 
receptacle cylindric over 1 in. long, 2 lin. in diam. ; barren and floral 
bracts similar, ovate, acuminate, 6-7 lin. long, very finely silky-pubes- 
cent below, then glabrous, ciliate ; adult flower-bud up to 1} in, long ; 
