Leucospermum.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 637 
late-obovate, rounded at the apex, attenuated into a linear base, 
10-15 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad, thickly coriaceous, pallid, veinless 
or with faint impressed veins, glabrous ; heads terminal, sessile or 
subsessile among the top leaves, solitary or in clusters of 2-3, 
6—7 lin. long excluding the styles, 8-9 lin. wide, without a distinct 
involucre of barren bracts ; peduncle if present with a few whitish- 
tomentose oblong or lanceolate acuminate bracts ; receptacle small, 
flat ; floral bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute to acuminate, 
the outermost sometimes up to 24 lin. long and forming an involucre, 
densely villous ; adult flower-bud up to 6 lin. long; perianth-tube 
24 lin. long, pubescent above ; claws all alike, free, straight, with 
recurved or revolute tips, finely tomentose ; limbs lanceolate-oblong, 
acute, 1} lin. long, velvety-tomentose ; anthers sessile, oblong, 
apical, up to almost 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales filiform, fiat, 
¢ lin. long; ovary cylindric, 3 lin. long, densely and minutely 
pubescent ; style 5-6 lin. long, filiform, glabrous; stigma subcla- 
vate, }—2 lin. long, passing into the style. Leucadendron cartilagi- 
neum, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 67 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
226. 
South AFrica: without locality or collector’s name in the British Museum ! 
Also Roxburgh in Herb. Banks, and Niven in Herb. Martins ex Meisner. 
WESTERN ReGion: Little Namaqualand ; Roode Berg and Ezels Kop, Dréye ! 
30. L. obtusatum (Phillips); a very small, densely branched 
shrub ; branches finely crisped-tomentose above, glabrescent below, 
with reddish bark ; leaves very much crowded, erect, more or less 
concealing the stem, linear-spathulate, obtuse, long narrowed into 
a linear base, flat or concave above, 4—7 lin. Jong, 1-1} lin. broad, 
very thick, very minutely crisped-tomentose, at length quite glabrous, 
glaucous, veinless ; heads solitary, terminal, sessile, 4-5 lin. long 
excluding the styles, 6-8 lin. wide, without a definite involucre of 
barren bracts; receptacle convex, 1} lin. wide; floral bracts 
obovate to oblanceolate, acute to long-acuminate, 14-3 lin. long, 
densely tomentose ; adult flower-bud up to 4 lin. long; perianth- 
tube ~ to almost 1 lin. long, very slender, glabrous below, claws 
all alike, free, very slender, with recurved tips up to 24 lin. long, 
whitish-tomentose ; limbs oblong, subacute, 1 lin. long, whitish- 
tomentose or villous; anthers sessile, linear-oblong, ? lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales subulate, 7 lin. long; ovary pubescent, 3? lin. 
long, surrounded by whitish hairs 1} lin. long; style filiform, 
straight, 44-54 lin. long, loosely pubescent ; stigma clavate, $—3 lin. 
long, subobtuse. Protea obtusata, Thunb. in Hof'm. Phytog. Blaett. 
i. (1803), 15; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 133. Leucadendron 
obtusatum, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 227. 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Thunberg! 
Coast Rearon : Worcester Div. ; Matroos Berg, Davidson ! 
31. L. zwartbhergense (Bolus in Trans. $8. Afr. Phil. Soc. xviii. 
399); a small decumbent shrub, about 9 in. high; branches 
