626 PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). [Zeuwcospermum. 
10 lin. long, straight, thickened and terete below, quadrangular 
upwards, gradually passing into the clavate obtuse stigma, which 
is 1-2 lin. long; fruit globose-ellipsoid, up to 3 lin. long, whitish, 
almost glabrous. Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 361; Meisn. in 
DG. Prodr. xiv. 257, incl. vars. vulgare, canaliculatum and. steno- 
phylum, L. canaliculatum, Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
199. L. diffusum, Sieber ea Meisn. l.c. Leucadendron Hypophyllo- 
carpodendron, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 93; Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. 
Stockh. 1766, 321; Deser. Pl. Cap. 16. Protea Hypophyllocarpo- 
dendron, Linn. Mant. alt. 191. P. hypophylla, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 23, 
and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 126; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 137 ; Lam. 
Ill. i. 239; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 513 ; Poir. Eneycl. v. 655. P. hypo- 
phylla, vars. angustifolia and latifolia, Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 
76. P. heterophylla, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 24, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
127, partly from his specimens. Leucadendrum hypophyllum, Knight, 
Prot. 56.—Thymelza capitata rapunculoides, ete., Pluk. Mant. t. 440, 
fig. 3. Conocarpodendron folio rigido angusto, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. 
Hort. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 198, t. 198. Scolymocephalus seu Conocarpo- 
dendron folio angusto, etc., Weinm. Phyt. iv. 294, t. 902, fig. a. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Bergius! Oldenburg! Thunberg (sheets a 
and + of his Herbarium)! Masson! Sparrman! Niven! Brown ! Ludwig | Ecklon ! 
Zeyher, 1464! Wahlberg! Sieber, 3! 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury Div. ; Mamre (Groene Kloof), Bolus, 4323 ! Paarl 
Div. ; by the Berg River, near Paarl, Drége! Cape Div. ; mountains and flats in 
the vicinity of Cape Town, Burchell, 215! 710! 8561! Bowie! Brown! Ecklon, 
472! Wallich! Zeyher, 1465! Thom! Hooker, 403! Drége! Milne, 34! Bolus, 
2908! MacOwan, 2504! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 775! Schlechter, 59! 
Wolley-Dod, 618! Galpin, 4467! Diimmer, 4491! near Simons Town, Wright! 
MacGillivray, 637! near Cape Point, Phillips, 521! Stellenbosch Div. ; between 
Jonkers Hoek and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8302! Caledon Div. ; near Caledon, 
Templeman in MacOwan, Herb, Austr.-Afr. 1642 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, 
Bolus, 8584! Schlechter, 9684 ! 
16. L. tomentosum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 101, excl. 
vars. 8 and y); anerect or procumbent shrub, 4—5 ft. high ; branches 
finely crisped-pubescent to tomentose with or without long spreading 
hairs ; leaves scattered, those of procumbent branches all turning 
skywards, linear, obtuse, entire or callously 3-toothed at the apex, 
fla ior with recurved margins, 1}-2} in. long, 1-24 lin. broad, 
veinless, when quite young usually very finely tomentose, at length 
glabrescent or quite glabrous; heads usually 2-3 at the end of 
the branches or solitary, very shortly peduncled, with a definite 
involucre of numerous densely imbricate barren bracts, about 
3 in. long excluding the styles, up to 1 in. in diam. ; peduncles 
rarely over 3 lin. long, obconical, very stout upwards, densely 
covered with ovate or ovate-lanceolate obtusely subacuminate 
shortly tomentose and upwards ciliate bracts, increasing upwards 
in size and passing into the involucre; receptacle convex, up to 
2 lin. high and 4—5 lin. wide at the base ; involucral bracts like 
the upper bracts of the peduncle, but more acuminate, up to 3 lin. 
long; floral bracts oblanceolate to obovate-cuneate, shortly and 
