Leucospermum.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 635 
xlviii. p. xcv. L.lemmerzianum, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 111. 
Protea pubera, Linn. Mant. alt. 192; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 43, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 140; Lam, Ill. i. 234; Willd. Sp, Pl. i. 533, 
partly; Poir. Encycl. v. 642. P. heterophylla, Thunb, Diss. Prot. 
24, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 127, partly from his specimens ; Murr. 
Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 138. Leucadendrum calligerum, Knight, Prot. 60. 
Leucadendron: pubigerum, Linn, ex Meisn. 1.c. 259.  L. puberum, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 579. 
Var. B, patulum (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 259); a.small shrub with mostly 
short and slender, often crowded branches; leaves at length usually almost 
glabrous, 14-23 (rarely to 3) lin. broad ; heads rather smaller than in the type, 
about 6 (rarely to 7) lin. long excluding the styles. LZ. patulum, R. Br. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc, x. 100; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 360. Protea heterophylla, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 24, and Fl. Cap. ed, Schult. 127, partly from his specimens ; 
Willd. Sp, Pl, i. 515. Leucadendron heterophyllum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 579. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Nelson ! Thunberg! Masson! Thom, 657 ! 691! 
Var. B: Nelson! Masson ! 
Coast Reoton: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Pakhuis and Bidouw, Drége! Blue 
Berg, Schlechter, 8463! Alexanders Hoek, Schlechter, 5128! Piquetberg Div. ; 
Twenty-four Rivers, Niven, 41! Tulbagh Div. ; Witzenberg Range, Burchell, 
8726! New Kloof, near Tulbagh, Ludwig! Zeyher, 1463! Pappe! Bolus, 5233 ! 
MacOwan, 2601! and Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 779! 1945! Worcester Div. ; 
Brand Vley, Niven! Paarl Div. ; Elands Kloof, Ludwig! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Gordons Bay, Bolus, 8077! Caledon Div. ; various localities, Burchell, 7822! 
7939! Bowie! Ludwig! Pappe ! Schlechter, 5558 ! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 
Galpin, 4463! Phillips, 516! Muir! Var. 8: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 
Schlechter, 9663! Bolus, 7873! 8585! 
Centra ReEGIoNn: Calvinia Div, ; Uien Valley, Bokkeveld Mountains, Drége ! 
27. L. royenifolium (Stapf); a small shrub with procumbent 
branches and numerous ascending branchlets; branchlets mostly 
rather slender, minutely greyish crisped-pubescent or tomentose and 
more or less hirsute; leaves rather crowded, obliquely spreading, 
not concealing the stem, linear- to narrowly elliptic-oblong or 
oblanceolate, acute with a callous point, rarely minutely 2—3-toothed 
at the apex, slightly narrowed towards the base, 5-10 lin. long, 
2-3 lin. broad, faintly but distinctly veined, sparingly crisped- 
pubescent and adpressedly hirsute when young, soon glabrescent 
and usually at length quite glabrous ; heads solitary or in clusters 
of 2-4, terminal or overtopped by young branches and then 
apparently lateral, subsessile, turbinate, rather lax when fully out, 
5-6 lin. long, 6-8 lin. broad, with a definite involucre of imbricate 
barren bracts; peduncle very short, covered with ovate acute 
tomentose bracts passing into those of the involucre ; receptacle 
flat ; involucral bracts ovate, acuminate, up to 2 lin. long, 
tomentosé ; floral bracts obovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate 
or cuspidate, 2-3 lin. long, densely tomentose ; adult flower-bud 
about 54 lin. long; perianth-tube cylindric, 2}—3 lin. long, pubescent 
upwards ; adaxial and lateral claws united into a straight villous 
or shortly hirsute sheath, about 1}—2 lin. long, with free recurved 
tips, soon separating downwards ; abaxial claw free, otherwise like 
the others ; limbs ovate-oblong, acute, not quite 1 lin. long, hirsute ; 
