636 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [ Lewcospermum. 
anthers sessile, linear-oblong, } lin. long ; hypogynous scales subulate, 
hyaline, } lin. long ; ovary oblong, under | lin. long, finely pubescent 
below, gradually passing into the style ; style 6-7 lin. long, filiform, 
tapering upwards ; stigma oblong-cylindric, obtuse, 4 lin. long ; fruit 
ellipsoid, whitish, 34 lin. long, subacute, not beaked. L. puberum, 
¢ var. dubium, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 259. Leucadendrum royene- 
folium, Knight, Prot. 59. 
Coast Reaton : George Div.; Devils Kop, Niven, 43! Uniondale Div.; on a 
rocky hill near Haarlem, Burchell, 4993! between Avontuur and Klip River, 
Drége! mountains near Uniondale, Bolus, 2453 ! 
28. L. prostratum (Stapf); an apparently trailing low shrub ; 
branches slender, villous or hirsute, at length glabrescent ; leaves 
loosely scattered on decumbent shoots, all turned skywards, linear, 
acute or subacute, rarely obtuse, hardly narrowed at the base, 
#-17 in. long, }—2 lin. broad, more or less distinctly veined in the 
broader leaves, villous when young, then loosely pubescent ; heads 
solitary or 2-nate, terminal, subterminal or overtopped and appar- 
ently lateral, peduncled, hemispherical, very many-flowered and 
compact, 5—7 lin. long, about 9 lin. across, rounded at the base, 
with a definite involucre of imbricate barren bracts; peduncle 
slender, 5-15 lin. long, tomentose, bearing scattered lanceolate, 
often reflexed, tomentose bracts; receptacle convex, very low ; 
involucral bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, up to 3 lin. long, 
finely tomentose ; floral bracts obovate-cuneate, abruptly acuminate 
or apiculate, 24-3 lin. long, densely tomentose ; adult flower-bud 
6-7 lin. long; perianth-tube tapering downwards, 34 lin. long, 
pubescent from the middle upwards ; claws more or less equal and 
free with recurved tips, 2 lin. long, villous or tomentose ; limbs 
deflexed, oblong, subacute, 1 lin. long, tomentose; anthers sessile, 
oblong, apiculate, } lin. long; hypogynous scales filiform, } lin. 
long ; ovary oblong, } lin. long, pubescent, surrounded by hairs, 
i lin. long; style 6-7 lin. long, finely filiform, glabrous ; stigma 
subclavate or cylindric, subobtuse, 4 lin. long, grooved; fruit 
ellipsoid, grey, including the short whitish conical beak 34 lin. 
long, loosely pubescent. L. diffuswm, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
259, partly, not of R. Br. Protea prostrata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 133; Roem. & Schult, Syst. Veg. iii. 355; R. Br. in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. x. 221 ; Meisn,1.c. 252. P. cinerea, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 
127 ; Poir. Encycl. v. 651. Leucadendron ? prostratum, Meisn. l.c. 221. 
Sovr# Arrica; without locality, Thunberg! Thom, 933! Ludwig! 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; Diep Gat, Galpin, 4465! Zwart Berg, near 
Caledon, Bowie! Templeman in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1641! Bot River, 
Schlechter, 9446, partly! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 5513! Bowie! mountains near 
Hemel and Aarde, Zeyher, 3686 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains near Elim, Bolus, 
7872! 85871! Schlechter, 7640! 
29. L. cartilagineum (Phillips) ; a small shrub, up to more than 
1 ft. high; branches very minutely crisped-pubescent, at length 
glabrescent, with a bright reddish bark ; leaves scattered, spathu- 
