Leucospermum.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 621 
perianth-tube 2—4 lin. long, glabrous ; adaxial and lateral claws per- 
manently united into a sheath concave or flattened-out and revolute 
above, 9-10 lin. long, hirsute or glabrous on the back below ; abaxial 
claw long-adhering to the top of the sheath, hirsute all over ; limbs 
ovate-oblong, acute, up to 2 lin. long, inflexed on the revolute top 
of the claw, finely tomentose and hirsute, some of the hairs red ; 
anthers over } lin. long, on broad filaments, broadly ovate-oblong, 
1 lin. long, connective wide ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, obtuse ; 
ovary oblong, over 1 lin. long, densely and minutely whitish 
pubescent ; style almost 2 lin. long, robust, acutely quadrangular 
above, glabrous; stigma orange-red, obliquely conic-ovoid, 1} lin. 
long, unequally grooved; fruit globose-ellipsoid, whitish, 3) lin. 
long, very sparingly and minutely puberulous. Roem. & Schult. 
Syst. Veg. iii. 358; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 255. L. medium, 
R. Br. lc. 97; Meisn. lc. Protea conocarpa, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 22, 
partly; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 126, partly. P. media, Poir. Encyel. 
Suppl. iv. 566. P. formosa, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 17; Tratt. Thesaur. 
t. 10, not of R. Br. P. tomentosa, Salisb. l.c. (teste Knight) not of 
Thunb. Leucadendrum ellipticum, Knight, Prot. 53; O. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 579. LL. formosum, Knight, lc. 54. 
Sovr# Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg! Thunberg (sheet a in Herb. 
Thunberg and in Herb. Stockholm)! Roxburgh! Brown! Mund! 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Jakhals Vley Mountains, Niven, 53! 
Blue Berg, Drége, 8056! Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, Zeyher, 1461! Pappe ! 
Bolus, 5236! Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 47! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 
904! Phillips, 524! Tulbagh Road, Schlechter, 8997 ! 
10. L. tottum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 97); a slender 
shrub; branches horizontally spreading, from more or less finely 
greyish-hirsute and minutely tomentose to glabrous ;_ leaves 
rather scattered, more or less spreading and exposing the stem, 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, with a callous point, entire, rarely 
3-toothed, narrow or broad at the base, 1-1} (rarely 2) in. long, 
4 to almost } in. broad, distinctly veined, glabrous or more or 
less hairy, particularly when young; heads solitary, peduncled, 
exserted from the uppermost leaves, 14-2 in. long excluding the 
styles, and as wide, with a definite involucre of imbricate reddish 
sometimes spreading bracts ; peduncle up to 1 in. long, covered with 
imbricate ovate acute to acuminate glabrous ciliate bracts ; receptacle 
cylindric, about 1 in, long ; barren and fertile bracts similar, broad- 
ovate to (the inner) obovate, acuminate to caudate- or subulate- 
acuminate, 5-7 lin. long, 3$—-4 lin. broad, outermost more or less 
glabrous on the back, inner increasingly adpressedly-hirsute ; adult 
flower-bud 13-2 in. long; perianth-tube 3-4 lin. long, pubescent 
above, glabrous below ; adaxial and lateral claws permanently united 
into a concave or upwards flattened-out and revolute sheath, about 
14-16 lin. long, hirsute all over like the apically adhering or free 
abaxial claw ; limbs ovate-oblong, acute, almost 2 lin. long, inflexed 
