Loucospermum. | PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). 623 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg! Masson! Brown! Ludwig ! 
Coast Recion : Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége ! Bayers Kloof, Schlechter, 
9202! Paarl Div. ; plains near Paarl, Niven, 48! Paarl Mountains, Zhunberg! 
Drége! Zeyher! MacOwan, 2839! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 777! Alex- 
ander! French Hoek Pass, Bolus, 5234 ! 
In Schlechter’s 9202, Drége and Brown’s specimens the leaves are revolute ; in 
Masson’s specimen they are 3-4 lin. broad. 
' 12. L. premorsum (Buek ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 257) ; 
branches minutely whitish-woolly-tomentose and loosely hirsute ; 
leaves very much crowded up to the flower-heads and overtopping 
them, concealing the stem, cuneate to oblanceolate-cuneate, usually 
truncate and very bluntly 5—7-toothed at the upper end, 2-34 in. 
long, 7-10 (the uppermost 5-6) lin. broad, very indistinctly veined, 
young minutely but densely tomentose, at length glabrous ; heads 
solitary, subsessile among the top leaves, 1} in. long excluding the 
styles and as much in diam., with a scanty involucre of barren bracts ; 
peduncle very short with a few imbricate bracts, stout, subulate 
from a widened base, densely and minutely tomentose and long- 
hairy, up to } in. long; receptacle very low to flat (?); barren and 
fertile bracts similar, broadly or (the inner) narrowly obovate- 
cuneate, suddenly contracted into a tail- or awn-like acumen and 
including it up to 7 lin. long, body very densely hirsute-tomentose, 
acumen hirsute; adult flower-bud 1} in. long; perianth-tube 
gradually tapering downwards, 4-5 lin. long, finely tomentose, 
excepting at the glabrous base; adaxial and lateral claws perma- 
nently united into a slender concave sheath almost up to the top, 
there free for a short distance and recurved or revolute or twisted, 
.finely tomentose and hirsute, about 8 lin. long; abaxial claw 
adherent to the sheath for about 2 lin, from the middle upwards, 
finely tomentose and hirsute like the sheath ; limbs more or less 
deflexed or recurved on the claw, lanceolate, acute, 2} lin. long, 
finely tomentose and hirsute ; anthers sessile, linear, oblong, apicu- 
late, 14 lin. long; hypogynous scales subulate, 15 lin. long ; ovary 
oblanceolate in outline, constricted at the junction with the style, 
2 lin. long, finely pubescent ; style up to almost 2 in. long, slender 
upwards and acutely tetragonous, glabrous ; stigma cylindric, sub- 
obtuse, suboblique, slightly grooved, 1} lin. long. LL. attenuatum, 
var. preemorsum, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 257. 
Coast Region: Clanwillian Div. ; Honig Valley and Koude Berg, Drége! 
13. L. grandiflorum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 100) ; a stout 
shrub; branches greyish-tomentose and hirsute ; leaves very much 
crowded up to the heads, concealing the stem, broad elliptic-oblong 
to lanceolate, rounded, rarely truncate, entire or 3-toothed at the 
apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, 14—3 in. long, 7—4 lin. broad, 
distinctly veined with the midrib prominent beneath, minutely 
but densely greyish-tomentose, at length more or less glabrous ; 
heads sessile among the top leaves, yellow, excepting the red stigmas, 
