Leucospermum.|] PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 625 
or the inner very densely hirsute-tomentose up to the acumen ; 
adult flower-bud up to almost 2 in. long; flowers reflexed ; perianth- 
tube curved, gibbous, 4—5 lin. long, finely villous above, glabrous 
at the contracted base, adaxial and lateral claws permanently united 
into a flattened-out sheath revolute in the upper part, softly and 
spreadingly villous, over 1 in. long; abaxial claw very slender, 
long adhering by the upper end to the sheath, softly and spreadingly 
villous ; limbs lanceolate-oblong, acute, up to 3 lin. long, usually 
inflexed on the revolute end of the claw-sheath ; anthers sessile, 
linear-lanceolate, long-apiculate, over 2 lin. long; hypogynous 
scales subulate, 1 lin. long; ovary oblong, 1 lin. long, finely 
greyish-pubescent ; style up to more than 3 in. long, deflexed or 
curved upwards, slightly tapering and quadrangular upwards ; 
stigma subulate, not wider than the style and set off from it by a 
minute bend, 3 lin. long. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 254. Leuca- 
dendron reflecum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
Coast Reaton: Clanwilliam Div. ; Honig Valley, Koudeberg and Wupperthal, 
Drége, 2415! Pakhuis Pass, Bolus, 9079! MacOwan in Herb. Austr. -Afr. 1946 ! 
Koude Berg, Schlechter, 8755! Cederberg Range, Mader ! 
15. L. hypophyllum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 102); a 
small procumbent shrub; branches 1-2 ft. long, trailing on the 
ground, very rarely erect and then short, finely crisped-pubescent 
to tomentose with few or many long spreading hairs or almost 
glabrous ; leaves loosely scattered, those of procumbent branches 
all turning skywards, very variable, linear-cuneate to lanceolate, 
obtuse, truncate or rarely subacute, entire or 3- (rarely 4~7-)toothed 
at the apex, flat or with recurved margins, 2-4} in. long, 1-6 lin, 
broad, obscurely veined or veinless, when quite young usually finely 
pubescent to tomentose or almost villous, mostly very soon quite 
glabrous, rarely permanently tomentose ; heads solitary or 2-3- 
nate, peduncled, with a definite involucre of numerous densely 
imbricate barren bracts, } to over 1 in. long excluding the styles, 
up to 1} in. in diam.; peduncles of decumbent branches bent 
skywards, } to over | in. long, very stout upwards, tomentose, 
bearing scattered ovate obtuse to subacute finely tomentose bracts ; 
receptacle conical, 4-6 in. long, at the base 3-4 lin. broad ; involu- 
cral bracts broad-ovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate or acute, 
finely tomentose or glabrous upwards, the larger 3-4 lin. long ; 
_ floral bracts broad-obovate, very shortly acute or acuminate, 
3-5 lin. long, densely tomentose excepting at the glabrescent tips 
or all over ; adult tlower-bud 3 to over 3 in. long, perianth-tube 
3-5 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous below, pubescent above ; adaxial 
and lateral claws permanently united into a sheath more or less 
flattened out and revolute in the upper part, 2-4 lin. long, finely 
tomentose ; abaxial claw soon free, often twisted; limbs oblong, 
acute, 1j-1} lin. long, tomentose ; anthers sessile, ovate-oblong, 
1 lin. long ; hypogynous scales subulate, under 4 lin. long ; ovary 
oblong, 1 lin. long, very finely pubescent; style up to about 
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