Lewcospermum.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). . a 
to the flower-heads, concealing the stem, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or 
subobtuse, 2—12-toothed towards the apex, 14-2} in. long, 10-15 lin. 
broad, densely greyish crisped-tomentose, sometimes at length almost 
glabrous ; heads in clusters of 2-3, shortly peduncled among the 
top leaves, sometimes overtopped by young branches and then 
apparently lateral, rounded at the base, about 3 in. long and wide, 
with a very short involucre of small ovate to ovate-oblong, closely 
imbricate, tomentose barren bracts recurved at the tips ; peduncles 
up to 4 lin. long, slender, with scattered small ovate subacute 
tomentose bracts ; receptacle flat ; floral bracts obovate to spathu- 
late, abruptly cuspidate or acuminate, 2—3 lin. long, densely hirsute- 
tomentose up to the minutely hirsute or pubescent tips ; adult flower- 
bud 8-9 lin. long; perianth-tube purplish and widened upwards 
from a yery slender base, up to 4 lin. long, glabrous below, 
pubescent upwards ; adaxial and lateral claws at first united into 
a straight sheath, 3-34 lin. long, red and recurved above, finely 
whitish-pubescent, soon splitting downwards to the middle or base ; 
abaxial claw always free, pubescent ; limbs deflexed, lanceolate- 
oblong, subacute, 1 lin. long, minutely hirsute; anthers sessile, 
oblong, apiculate, 3 lin. long; hypogynous scales linear, obtuse, 
4—} lin. long ; ovary oblong, lin. long, finely pubescent, surrounded 
by white hairs 1} lin. long; style 12-13 lin. long, filiform from a 
slightly stouter base, capillary upwards, glabrous ; stigma slender, 
cylindric, obtuse, grooved, } lin. long. L. purpureum, Mund ex 
Meisn. lc. L. crinitum, Klotzsch ex Meisn. l.c., not of R. Br. Leuca- 
dendron Mundii, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
Coast Recton: Swellendam Div. ; Tradouw Mountains, Mund! Riversdale 
Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4478! Bolus, 11366! Phillips, 517! 
95. L. buxifolium (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 100) ; a shrub 
2-5 ft. high ; branches greyish crisped-tomentose to villous ; leaves 
densely imbricate up to the flower-heads, concealing the stem, 
obovate or broad-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, very obtuse to sub- 
obtuse, with callous tips, slightly narrowed at the base, 3}—10 lin. 
long, 14-4 lin. broad, greyish-tomentose ; heads sessile among the 
leaves, usually in clusters of 2—6, sometimes solitary, terminal or 
owing to overtopping by branches apparently lateral, turbinate at 
the base, up to 4 in. long and wide, rarely larger, sometimes 2 or 
3 heads almost fused into one, with a definite involucre of imbricate 
barren bracts ; receptacle almost flat, about 2 lin. wide ; involucral 
bracts numerous, ovate, shortly acuminate or acute or obtuse, 
2-21 lin. long, sparingly hairy on the back, long-ciliate, with a 
terminal tuft of whitish hairs; floral bracts lanceolate, gradually 
and finely acuminate, about 3 lin. long, densely tomentose ; adult 
flower-bud 5-6 lin. long ; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, much attenuated 
downwards, glabrous below, finely pubescent above ; abaxial and 
lateral claws more or less united at first, at length usually more 
or less free and like the abaxial straight with recurved tips, 
2-24 lin, long, villous ; limbs deflexed, oblong, acute, 1—} lin. long, 
