628 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). [Lewcospermum. 
: glabrous ; stigma clavate-cylindric, obtuse, grooved, { lin. long, 
set off from the style by an oblique slight thickening. 
Coast Rearon : Riversdale Div. ; Milkwoodfontein, Galpin, 4457 ! Zandhoogte, 
Muir in Herb, Galpin, 5309 ! : 
18. L. candicans (Loud. Hort. Brit. ed. i. 38); an erect shrub, 
4—5 ft. high; branches minutely, but densely, greyish-woolly- 
tomentose with or without long spreading hairs ; leaves moderately 
crowded up to the flower-heads, spreading or~ obliquely erect, 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate, entire or 2—5-toothed at the apex, 
somewhat narrowed at the base, 11-2} in. long, 3-6 lin. broad, 
veinless or obscurely veined, greyish- or whitish-tomentose ; heads 
solitary or in clusters of 2-4 at the end of the branches, very 
shortly peduncled among the top-leaves, about $ to almost 1 in. 
long excluding the styles, 1 in. or more in diam., with a definite 
involucre of barren bracts ; peduncle turbinate, up to 4 lin. long 
and wide (at the upper end), densely covered with ovate acuminate 
densely tomentose upward-increasing -bracts; receptacle flat, over 
4 lin. across; involucral bracts like the upper bracts of the 
peduncle, up to 4 lin. long; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, 
clawed downwards, acuminate, densely tomentose excepting on 
the acumen, up to 6 lin. long; adult flower-bud 7-9 lin. long ; 
perianth-tube 2-3 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; abaxial and lateral 
claws united into a sheath flattened out and recurved or revolute 
in the upper part, with the tips at length free, 4—5 lin. long, 
glabrous apart from the pubescent margins; abaxial claw soon 
free, pubescent all over; limbs oblong, acute, 1-14 lin. long, 
finely tomentose, deflexed or recurved on the claws; anthers 
sessile, linear-oblong, 3 lin. long, apiculate; hypogynous scales 
subulate, hyaline, 2 lin. long; ovary oblong, whitish-pubescent, 
contracted into a short glabrous beak, 14 lin. long; style straight 
or almost so, 6-8 lin. long, filiform, tapering from a somewhat 
stouter base, quadrangular upwards, glabrous; stigma oblong- 
cylindric, obtuse, grooved; fruit ellipsoid, 4 lin. long, almost 
glabrous, shining. L. tomentosum, var. candicans, Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr, xiv. 258. L. tomentosum, var. 8, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
x. 102. L. spathulatum, var. dentatum, Meisn. l.c. Protea tomentosa, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 24, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 127, partly from his 
specimens. P. candicans, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 294. Leucadendrum 
rodolentum, Knight, Prot. 58. 
Sovrn Arrica : without locality, Niven! Brown! Auge! Thunberg (sheet a of 
his Herbarium) ! 
Coast Recion : Clanwilliam Diy. ; Olifants River, Drége ! Bolus, 5786! Zeekoe 
Vley, Schlechter, 8579! Piquetberg Div.; Pikeniers Kloof, Zeyher, 1466! 
Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Zeyher! Hopefield, Bolus, 12816! Schlechter, 5813 ! 
Worcester Div. ; Brand Vley, Schlechter, 9921! Caledon Div. ; near Caledon, 
Templeman in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1643 ! 
19. L. parile (Phillips) ; an erect shrub, 4—5 ft. high ; branches 
densely greyish-woolly-tomentose, usually with long spreading 
