634 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [ Lencospermum. 
hirsute ; anthers sessile, oblong, 3 lin. long ; subhypogynous scales 
linear, ? lin. long; ovary oblong, finely pubescent, } lin. long ; 
style 5} lin. long, finely filiform, glabrous, 5—6 lin. long ; stigma 
ovoid, $ lin. long. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 259. L. buaifolium, 
f. epacridea, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, x\viii. p.xciv. Protea 
pubera, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 43; and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult, 140. P. 
buaifolia, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 566. P. villosa, Willd. in Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. i. 464. Leucadendrum puberum, Knight, Prot. 61. L. trun- 
catulum, Knight, l.c. Leueadendron buxifolium, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii, 579. ‘ 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Oldenburg! Ludwig! Brown! Thom, 711! 940! 
Coast Reeion ; Clanwilliam Div. ; Alexanders Hoek, Schlechter, 5128! Stellen- 
bosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Zhunberg! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek and 
Little Houw Hoek Mountains, Niven, 200! Burchell, 8042! Bowie! Zeyher! 
Schlechter, 5495! Pillans! Bot River, Burchell, 928! Hermanus, Galpin, 4466 ! 
Klein River Mountains, Niven ! Zeyher, 3685! near Caledon, Templeman, Harte- 
beest River, Zeyher! Zwart Berg, MacOwan ! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 
7857 | 8588! Koude River, Schlechter, 9603 ! 
26. L. puberum (R. Br. Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 100); a shrub 
13-5 ft. high ; branches virgate, divaricate, decumbent or ascend- 
ing, often }-1 ft. long, minutely crisped-tomentose, usually with 
soft straight or flexuous hairs ; leaves usually crowded to densely 
imbricate and concealing the stem, sometimes scattered, oblong, 
oblanceolate or oblong-linear, acute to obtuse with a callous point, 
mostly entire, sometimes minutely 3-toothed at the apex, obtuse 
or narrowed at the base, 3-14 in. long, 2-4 lin. broad, more or 
less distinctly veined, greyish, minutely crisped-tomentose with or 
without longer spreading hairs, often villous when young ; heads 
solitary or in clusters of 2-4, terminal or overtopped by young 
branches and then apparently lateral, 7—8 lin. long excluding the style, 
}-1 in. wide, peduncled, with a definite involucre of imbricate barren 
bracts, rounded at the base; peduncles slender, from very short 
up to more than } in. long, shortly tomentose, bearing ovate- 
lanceolate to lanceolate tomentose bracts ; receptacle convex, low, 
small; involucral bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, up to 4 lin. 
long, villous; floral bracts obovate-cuneate, suddenly and long 
acuminate, 24-4 lin. long, I-1$ lin. broad, densely tomentose 
excepting on the pubescent acumen ; adult flower-bud 6-8 in. long ; 
perianth-tube 24-3} lin. long, subcylindrie, pubescent from the 
middle upwards ; adaxial and lateral claws about 3 lin. long, united 
into a straight villous to hirsute sheath with free recurved or 
revolute tips red inside, soon more or less splitting to the base ; 
abaxial claw very slender, free villous ; limbs deflexed, ovate-oblong, 
acute, 3—? lin. long, hirsute ; hypogynous scales linear, % lin. long ; 
ovary oblong, } lin. long, minutely pubescent ; style 8-10} lin. 
long, finely filiform, tapering upwards, glabrous, straight or 
flexuous ; stigma conic-ovoid, subobtuse, 1-1 lin. long ; fruit 
ellipsoid, obtuse, almost glabrous, 34 lin. long. Roem. & Schult. 
Syst. Veg. iii. 359; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 258 incl. vars. a, 
Band 6, but excl. var. y. L. Bolusii, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
