Leucospermum.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 627 
abruptly acuminate or apiculate, 3. lin. long, densely tomentose 
excepting at the glabrescent tips; adult flower-bud about 8 lin. 
long ; perianth-tube 24-3 lin. long, slender, cylindric, glabrous ; 
adaxial and lateral claws united into a sheath more or less flattened 
out and revolute in the upper part, about 34 lin, long, or separating 
from below upwards, sheath glabrous excepting on the finely 
pubescent margins, abaxial claw soon free, pubescent all over ; 
limbs lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute, 1} lin. long, sparingly 
and shortly pubescent to hirsute, soon glabrescent ; anthers sessile, 
linear-oblong, 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales subulate, hyaline, 
+ lin. long; ovary oblong, over 4 lin. long, whitish-pubescent, 
gradually passing into the style, surrounded by whitish hairs 
2-2) lin. long; style about 8 lin. long, filiform, quadrangular 
upwards, gradually passing into the subclavate-oblong grooved 
obtuse stigma which is 2—3 lin. long. Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 
ili. 360, partly ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 258, excl. vars. B and 8. 
Protea tomentosa, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 24, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 127, 
partly from his specimens; Linn. f. Suppl. 118; Lam. Ill. i. 239 ; 
Willd, Sp. Pl. i. 514; Poir. Encyel. v. 656. L. Ecklonii, Buek ex 
Meisn. lc. Leucadendrum tomentosum, Knight, Prot. 57 ; O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579, 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Thunberg (sheet B of his herbarium)! Niven ! 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div. ; around Mamre and between Mamre and 
Saldanha Bay, Drége! 
This, in the Herbarium of the British Museum, is written up in R. Brown's 
handwriting as L. tomentosum a. 
17. L. Muirii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 332); a bush, 
6 ft. high; branches minutely greyish woolly-tomentose, at length 
glabrescent ; leaves loosely scattered, oblanceolate to cuneate- 
linear, obtuse, bluntly 3-7-toothed at the apex, 1}—2 in. long, 
2-44 lin. broad, glabrous excepting at the crisped-tomentose base ; 
heads 2-nate, shortly peduncled, up to } in. long excluding the 
styles, } to almost 1 in. in diam., without a definite involucre of 
barren bracts ; peduncle up to 4 lin. long, tomentose, bearing stout 
spreading tomentose bracts up to 2 lin. long and semicylindric 
from a broader base ; receptacle convex, 2. lin. high, 3-3} lin. wide 
at the base ; floral bracts ovate to obovate, abruptly acuminate, 
24 lin. long, densely tomentose to the base of the acumen ; adult 
flower-bud about 6-7 lin. long; perianth-tube 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; adaxial and lateral claws slender, flexuous, at length 
more or less free below, but united at the upper usually recurved 
end or the tips free or more frequently the four claws united in 
2 pairs, those of each pair holding together near the upper end 
only, 3-34 lin. long, finely pubescent; limbs lanceolate-oblong, 
acute, 1}-l1} lin. long, hirsute ; anthers sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 
1 lin. long; hypogynous scales lanceolate-linear, 7 lin. long, 
hyaline ; ovary oblong, } lin. long, whitish-pubescent ; style 8 lin. 
long, filiform, very slightly stouter. below, quadrangular above, 
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