Leucospermum.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 631 
length sometimes glabrescent, ciliate, up to 5 lin. long ; floral bracts 
linear-lanceolate to subulate, acutely acuminate, up to 5 lin. long, 
long-tomentose all along; adult flower-bud about 8 lin. long; 
perianth-tube 24-3 lin. long, very slender, glabrous ; adaxial and 
lateral claws united into a slender straight sheath, 3}—5 lin. long, 
flattened out’ and recurved at the upper end, like the free very 
slender abaxial claw loosely hairy; limbs deflexed, narrowly 
lanceolate-oblong, acute, 1 lin. long, hirsute; hypogynous scales 
linear, 2 lin. long; ovary oblong, whitish-pubescent, up to 1 lin. 
long, surrounded by hairs up to | lin. long ; style straight or nearly 
so, finely filiform from a stouter base, capillary upwards, 12 lin. 
long, glabrous ; stigma cylindric, very slender, slightly thickened 
at the base, }—1 lin. long; fruit ellipsoid, 34 lin. long, sparingly 
and minutely puberulous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 261, excl. 
var. B, Brownii. L. molle, R. Br. lc. 103; Meisn. Le. ( partly’). 
L. cryptanthum, Buek in Drége, Zwei PA. Documente, 82, 116, 199. 
L. medium (c), Drége ea Meisn. lc. 260. L. medium, f. Zeyheri, 
Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlviii. p. xev. Leucadendron olewx- 
folium, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 320, and Deser. Fl. 
Cap.15. L. molle, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. Leucadendrum 
criniflorum, Knight, Prot. 58. Protea mollis, Poir. Encyel. Suppl.-iv. 
567, not 577. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Roxburgh! Ludwig! Drége! Thom, 682! 
Coast REecIon: Clanwilliam Div.; Blue Berg, Drege! Worcester Div. ; 
Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Bains Kloof, Schlechter, 9095! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland, Niven ! Jonkers Hoek, Niven, 39 ! Caledon Div. ; mountains 
near Genadendaal, Burchell, 7691! Schlechter, 9839! Galpin, 4464! Drege! 
Zwart Berg, Bowie! Zeyher, 3683! 3684! 
92. L. diffusum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 104, excel.’ 
synonyms); a procumbent bush 2} ft. high ; branches more or less 
minutely woolly-tomentose and finely hirsute ; leaves loosely 
scattered on decumbent branches turned skywards, linear, subacute, 
entire or minutely and acutely 2-3-toothed at the apex, slightly 
attenuated downwards, about 1} in. long, up to 2 lin. broad, 
faintly veined, minutely crisped-pubescent to tomentose, sometimes 
with some long hairs; heads solitary, terminal or by overtopping 
apparently lateral, peduncled, rounded at the base, ? in. long, 
1 in. in diam., with a definite involucre of imbricate barren 
bracts ; peduncle up to } in. long, slender, with ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate finely tomentose and ciliate recurved bracts ; receptacle 
flat ; involucral bracts ovate to ovate-oblong and finely acuminate, 
5 lin. long, tomentose on the back with longer hairs on the sides 
and upwards ; floral bracts lanceolate to linear, acuminate, 24-5 
lin. long, densely tomentose; adult flower-bud 8-9 lin. long ; 
perianth-tube 3 lin. long, glabrous below, pubescent above, 
slightly widened upwards ;, adaxial and lateral claws united into 
a straight sheath up to 5 lin. long, flattened out and recurved in 
the upper part, yellow-tomentose; limbs deflexed, lanceolate- 
oblong, acute, 1 lin. long, tomentose ; anthers sessile, ovate- 
