632 PROTEACEE (Phillips & Stapf). [Lewcospermum. 
oblong, minutely apiculate, 3 lin. long ; hypogynous scales linear, 
acute, 2-1 lin. long; ovary oblong, } lin. long, whitish-pubescent, 
surrounded by whitish hairs, ? lin. long ; style 10-12 lin. long, 
- finely filiform, capillary upwards, glabrous ; stigma slender, cylin- 
dric, obtuse, finely grooved, } lin. long. Roem. c Schult. Syst. Veg. 
iii. 362 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 259, partly. L. pedunculatwm, 
Klotzsch ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 76. Leucadendron pedunculatum, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
SourH Arnica: without locality, Masson! Roxburgh ! 
Coast Rraion: Bredasdorp Div. ; Zoetendals Valley, Krauss, 1069. Riversdale 
Div. ; Muiskraal near Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4456 ! 
Leucadendron saxatile (Knight, Prot. 58) probably belongs here. It was 
collected by Niven on dry rocks near Groote River in Ladismith Division. 
23. L. stenanthum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 112); 
a decumbent shrub; branches slender, finely greyish woolly- 
tomentose and greyish-hirsute, lower down at length glabrescent 
with a reddish bark; leaves scattered, or on short branches 
crowded and concealing the stem, on decumbent branches all 
turned skywards, linear, somewhat attenuated downwards, obtuse 
or subobtuse, entire, 3-11 in. long, 14-2} lin. broad, minutely 
greyish-tomentose with or without long soft hairs, obscurely veined ; 
heads solitary, sessile among the top leaves or overtopped by young 
branches and apparently lateral, rounded at the base, shortly 
peduncled, 8-10 lin. long excluding the styles, 7-9 lin. wide, with 
a definite scanty short involucre of barren bracts ; peduncle up to 
3 lin. long, slender, bearing linear tomentose spreading bracts ; 
receptacle flat, about 3 lin. wide; involucral bracts ovate-lanceo- 
late to lanceolate, acuminate to caudate-acuminate, finely tomentose, 
ciliate upwards, up to 3 lin. long ; floral bracts oblanceolate-cuneate 
to narrowly obovate-cuneate, acute or shortly and abruptly subulate- 
acuminate, up to 2 lin. long, densely tomentose up to the minutely 
pubescent tips ; adult flower-bud 8 to about 9 lin. long ; perianth- 
tube 24 lin. long, glabrous ; adaxial and lateral claws united into 
a straight slender sheath, 4 lin. long, } lin. wide, flattened out 
and recurved in the upper part, at length splitting from the top, 
minutely hirsute along the margins ; abaxial claw slender, free, 
minutely hirsute or pubescent all over with red glands; limbs 
deflexed, oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, subacute, minutely hirsute ; 
anthers sessile, oblong-lanceolate, } lin. long; hypogynous scales 
linear, somewhat fleshy and clavate upwards, | lin. long ; ovary 
lanceolate in outline, 1 lin. long, minutely pubescent, gradually 
passing into the filiform style which is capillary above and | in. 
long ; stigma slender, cylindric, 1} lin. long. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; Bot River, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 9446! Shaws 
Mountain, near Caledon, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus ! 
24. L. Mundii (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 261); a bush 3 ft. 
high ; branches densely minutely greyish crisped-tomentose, some- 
times with fine spreading hairs ; leaves densely crowded, usually up 
