624 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [Lewcospermum. 
1}—2} in. long, and almost as wide, with a definite involucre of 
imbricate barren bracts ; receptacle cylindric, 3—1 in. long, 2-3 lin. 
wide ; barren and floral bracts similar, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, more 
or less, sometimes long, acuminate, up to ? in. long, finely tomentose 
to subglabrous, or (the inner) very densely hirsute-tomentose on the 
back, usually with long straight hairs besides, margins long hirsute- 
ciliate ; adult flower-bud 1}—2 in. long; perianth-tube 43-5 lin. 
long, contracted into a narrow base, finely pubescent above, glabrous 
beneath ; adaxial and lateral claws permanently united into a con- 
cave or flattened-out flexuous or twisted sheath, recurved or revolute 
at the top, softly and loosely villous, over 1 in. long, abaxial claw 
adhering to the top of the sheath, very slender, villous like the 
sheath ; limbs lanceolate, acute, 34 lin. long, long conniving and 
deflexed, at length spreading out like the prongs of a fork and 
inflexed on the revolute end of the claws, villous or softly hirsute ; 
anthers sessile, linear-lanceolate, long-apiculate, 3 lin. long ; hypo- 
gynous scales subulate, acute, over 1 lin. long ; ovary oblong, 
minutely whitish-pubescent, 1 lin. long ; style 2 to over 2} in. long, 
robust, more or less quadrangular above, glabrous; stigma sub- 
cylindric, slightly oblique at the base, obtuse, finely grooved, 24-34 
lin. long. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 254; Sim, For. Fl. Cape, 297, 
t. 129, fig.1. DL. Gueinzii, Meisn. l.c. 100. Protea conocarpa, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 22, partly, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 126, partly. P. 
villosa, Poir, Eneycl. Suppl. iv. 566. P. villosiuscula, Herb. Banks 
ex R. Br. lc. P. erosa, Lichtenst. ex Meisn. l.c. Leucadendrum grandi- 
forum, Salish. Parad. t. 116 ; Knight, Prot. 54. LL. Gueinzii, O. 
Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579, 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Oldenburg! Thunberg (a of Herbarium left- 
hand sp.)! Mund! Alexander! Gueinzius | 
Coast Reaion: Paarl Div. ; mountains near Paarl, Niven! Roxburgh! Drége! 
Zeyher! Bolus, 5570! Schlechter, 9211! Wellington, Pappe! French Hoek, 
Ludwig! MacOwan, 2905! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Zeyher! Riversdale Div. ; 
Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4458 ! George Div.; Devils Kop, Bowie! Paschalsdorp, 
Zeyher! Knysna Div. ; near Knysna, Pappe ! 
14. L. reflexum (Buek ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 254) ; 
branches minutely greyish-woolly-tomentose ; leaves rather crowded 
at the base of the long flowering branches, more distant and exposing 
the stem above, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 3- (rarely 2-) 
toothed or entire, #-14 in. long, 24-4) lin. wide, minutely but 
densely greyish-tomentose, obscurely veined ; heads solitary or if 
paired only one fully developed at a time, peduncled, far exserted 
from the uppermost leaves, 1f-24 in. long and about as wide, 
without a definite involucre of barren bracts ; peduncle 1-2 in. 
long, stout, densely greyish-villous with ovate acuminate greyish- 
villous or tomentose bracts; receptacle oblong-cylindric, up to 
1 in. long, 2 lin. wide ; floral bracts ovate, or (the inner) obovate- 
cuneate, gradually and long or (the inner) abruptly acuminate, up 
to 5 lin. long, tomentose above, densely villous towards the base 
