Leucospermum,| PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 629 
hairs; leaves rather crowded up to the flower-heads, but not 
concealing the stem, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, entire or 
minutely 3-toothed at the apex (teeth with a blunt callous point), 
slightly narrowed at the base, 13-24 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, 
minutely and densely greyish-tomentose; heads subsessile, in 
clusters of 2-4 at the ends of the branches, about } in. long 
excluding the styles, and }—1 in. in diam., with a definite involucre 
of closely imbricate reddish-brown barren bracts; peduncle very 
short, obconical, densely covered with barren bracts passing into 
those of the involucre; receptacle flat ; barren bracts of peduncle 
and involucre very numerous, increasing upwards, ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, finely pubescent below, glabrous above, 
ciliate, the uppermost up to } in. long; floral bracts unguiculate- 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, gradually and often long-acuminate, 
about 5 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad, densely hirsute-tomentose on 
the back of the claw, glabrous and ciliate above ; adult flower-bud 
about 7 lin. long ; perianth-tube up to 2 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; 
adaxial and lateral claws permanently united into a very narrow 
sheath flattened out and reflexed in the upper part, minutely 
ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; abaxial claw minutely pubescent, soon 
free; limbs oblong-lanceolate, acute, 14 lin. long, glabrous or 
sparingly hairy ; hypogynous scales linear-subulate, hyaline, 1 lin. 
long; ovary linear-oblong, shortly villous, contracted above into 
a filiform glabrous beak, over 1} lin. long, surrounded by whitish 
hairs up to 2 lin. long; style about 7 lin. long, tapering from a 
thickened base, slender and quadrangular upwards ; stigma cylin- 
dric, obtuse, grooved, 3 lin. long, distinct from the style. L. 
tomentosum, var. y, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 102; Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 360, var. y only ; var. Dregei, Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 258. Leucadendrum parile, Knight, Prot. 57. 
Coast Recon: Malmesbury Div, ; vicinity of Mamre and between there and 
Saldanha Bay, Drége! Bolus, 4324! Zeyher, 1467! Paarde Berg, Niven! 
20. L. crinitum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 103, descr. and 
syn.); a bush 3-4 ft. high; branches more or less spreading, 
minutely woolly-tomentose and hirsute ; leaves usually very much 
crowded, particularly upwards and concealing the stem, more or 
less oblong, obtuse with a callous point, entire or rarely bluntly 
3-toothed, obtuse at the base, 1-2 in. long, 3-9 lin. broad, 
distinctly veined, very minutely rugulose, villous or tomentose 
when young, then glabrescent to glabrous ; heads subsessile among 
the crowded top leaves, terminal or overtopped by young branches 
and thus apparently lateral, solitary or in clusters of 2-3, 1-1} in. 
long, 1-2 in. in diam., with a definite involucre of imbricate barren 
bracts exceeding the perianths ; peduncle up to 2} lin. long, stout, 
densely bracteate ; receptacle slightly convex, 4-6 lin. in diam. ; 
barren bracts. of peduncle and involucre gradually increasing 
upwards, the innermost much produced, lanceolate to narrow- 
lanceolate, acute to (the inner) long- and subulate-acuminate and 
