630 PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). [Lewcospermum. 
up to more than 1 in. long, finely tomentose or pubescent to glab- 
rescent, ciliate and the long acumina of the inner bracts more 
or less penicillate; floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, very long- 
acuminate, 6-7 lin. long, densely and long-tomentose up to 2-3 lin., 
then finely pubescent, ciliate and subpenicillate ; adult flower-bud 
about }$ in. long; perianth-tube 2-3 lin. long, slightly widened at 
the upper end, glabrous ; adaxial and lateral claws united into a 
slender straight sheath, 3-4 lin. long, flattened out and recurved 
at the upper end, at length sometimes splitting downwards, like 
the free abaxial claw loosely villous; limbs deflexed, lanceolate, 
acute, | lin. long, hirsute ; hypogynous scales linear, ? lin. long ; 
ovary oblong, whitish-pubescent, } lin. long, surrounded by white 
hairs } lin. long ; style straight or nearly so, finely filiform from a 
stouter base, capillary upwards, 10-12 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 
cylindric, very slender, slightly thickened at the base, 3 lin. long ; 
fruit ellipsoid, 34 lin. long, sparingly and minutely puberulous. 
Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 361 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 260, 
excl. vars. B and y. L. olezfolium, R. Br. lc. 104 (var. prima). L. 
olexfolium, var. Brownii, Meisn. l.c. 261. L. penicillatum, Buek in 
Drege, Zwei Pf. Documente, 24,199. L. penicillatum, B, trichanthum, 
Gandog. Bull. Soe. Bot. France, xlviii. p.xev. Protea erinita, Thunb. 
Diss, Prot, 21; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 125; Willd. Sp. Pl. i.511 ; Poir. 
Eneyel. vy. 657. P. eriniflora, Linn. f. Suppl. 117. P. erosa, Willd. 
ex Meisn.l.c. P. molle, Klotzsch ex Meisn. l.c., not of R. Br. Leuca- 
dendron erinitum, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii, 399; O. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 579. L. penicillatum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Auge! Oldenburg! Thunberg | 
Coast Recion: Paarl Mountains, Drége! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots 
Holland, Niven, 46! Lowrys Pass. MacOwan! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek 
Mountains, Burchell, 8098! 81831 Bowie! Zeyher, 3683! MacOwan, 2910! and 
in Herb, Norm. Austr,-Afr. 910! Pillans! Schlechter, 9386 ! 
21. L. olesefolium (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 104, var. altera) ; 
a bush 3-4 ft. high; branches villous or tomentose, rather slender ; 
leaves densely crowded, particularly upwards and there concealing 
the stem, linear-oblong, obtuse, rarely truncate, entire with a 
callous point or bluntly 3-5-toothed at the apex, slightly narrowed 
towards the base, 1-1} in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, more or less 
distinctly veined, sometimes very minutely rugulose, tomentose 
or villous when young, then more or less glabrescent to glabrous ; 
heads subsessile among and usually exceeded by the crowded top 
leaves, terminal, sometimes overtopped by young branches and 
then apparently lateral, }-3 in. long excluding the styles, up to 
1 in. wide, with a definite involucre of imbricate barren bracts 
shorter than the perianths ; peduncle up to 3 lin. long, moderately 
stout, bearing lanceolate to linear-subulate, pubescent to villous 
bracts ; receptacle flat, up to 5 lin. wide; barren bracts of peduncle 
and involucre gradually increasing upwards and inwards, rather 
numerous, those of the involucre ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceo- 
late, acute to acuminate, finely pubescent or villous all over, at 
