622 _ PROTEACEH (Phillips & Stapf). | Leucospermum. 
on the revolute top of the claw, hirsute, some of the hairs red ; 
anthers sessile, ovate, over } lin. long ; hypogynous scales linear, 
acute, up to 7 lin. long; ovary oblong to ellipsoid 1 lin. long, 
minutely whitish-pubescent surrounded by whitish hairs of the same 
length ; style 1-2 in. long, acutely quadrangular above, glabrous ; 
stigma obliquely ovoid, obtuse, not or obscurely grooved. Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 357 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 257. Protea 
totta, Linn. Mant. alt. 191; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 42 and Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 139; Lam. Ill. i. 235; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 532; Poir. Encyel. 
v. 644. Leucadendron horizontale, Knight, Prot. 53. L. Totta, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
SoutH Arrica : without locality, Oldenburg! Thunbery ! Drége! Brown! Zeyher, 
1462! Cooper, 3070! ; 
Coast Reaion : Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! MacOwan in Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr. 776! Worcester, Cooper, 1597! Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 47! 
Pappe! MacOwan, 2505! Zeyher | 
CenTRAL Reaion: Ceres Div. ; Klein Vley, Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 10206 ! 
11, L. lineare (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 96); a slender low- 
growing subdecumbent or erect bush; branches glabrous ; leaves 
seattered, exposing the stem, on decumbent branches more or less 
turned skywards, linear, subobtuse with a callous point, narrowed 
towards the base, entire, flat or with recurved margins, indistinctly 
veined, glabrous ; heads usually solitary, rarely 2-nate, exserted from 
(rarely overtopped by) the uppermost leaves, peduncled, 14-1? in. 
long excluding the styles, and about as wide, with a definite invo- 
lucre of barren closely imbricate bracts ; peduncle $ to almost | in. 
long, covered with spreading ovate acute pubescent or finely 
tomentose bracts, 2—3 lin. long ; receptacle cylindric, about 1 in. 
Jong, 1} lin. in diam.; barren and fertile bracts similar, ovate or 
(the inner) elliptic to obovate, acute to (the inner) acutely acuminate, 
up to 6 lin. long, 24-34 lin. broad, tomentose and _hirsute-ciliate ; 
adult flower-bud 1} in. long ; perianth-tube 34-4 lin. long, rather 
wide from a narrow base, glabrous below, pubescent upwards ; 
adaxial and lateral claws permanently united into an upwardly 
flattened-out and revolute sheath, about } in. long, like the apically 
adherent or free abaxial claw softly hirsute all over ; limbs ovate- 
oblong, acute, 1} lin. long, hirsute, at length inflexed on the revolute 
top of the claw ; anthers subsessile, ovate-oblong, } lin. long ; hypo- 
gynous scales linear, subacute, 1 lin. long ; ovary oblong, under 1| 
lin. long, minutely greyish-pubescent, surrounded by whitish hairs, 
I lin. long; style 1} in. long, slender and acutely quadrangular 
upwards, glabrous ; stigma shortly conical from a broad base, some- 
what oblique, subobtuse, up to 1 lin. long. Roem. & Schult. Syst. 
Veg. iii. 556 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 256 (incl. vars.). L. lineare, 
var. calocephalum, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, x\viii. p. xciv. 
Protea linearis, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 33, t. 4, Jig. 2, and in Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 131 ; Lam. Ill. i. 237; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 521, Leucadendrum 
fallax, Knight, Prot.52. L. lineare, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
