638 PROTEACE& (Phillips & Stapf). [ Zeucospermum. 
minutely greyish crisped-tomentose above, at length glabrous below, 
with a reddish bark ; leaves rather crowded, slightly curved, linear 
subobtuse, long narrowed towards the base, 9-15 lin. long, {—14 lin. 
broad, flat or with recurved margins and then channelled on the 
back, finely pubescent when young, soon quite glabrous, pale green 
or glaucous ; heads sessile, solitary or in pairs at the end of very 
short densely leafy branches, subglobose, 5-5} lin. long and wide, 
with a few barren basal bracts not forming a definite involucre, 
linear-oblong, 2—2) lin. long, glabrous apart from the dense cilia, 
brown ; receptacle oblong, 24 lin. long, 1 lin. in diam.; floral 
bracts subulate, 1 lin. long, glabrous, ciliate at the apex, hidden 
among the white villi of the receptacle; adult flower-buds up to 
3 lin. long; perianth-tube }# lin. long, very slender, glabrous ; 
claws all alike, free, filiform, flexuous with recurved tips, 14 lin. 
long, whitish-villous ; limbs deflexed, oblong, subacute, ¢ lin. long, 
villous ; anthers sessile, linear, } lin. long; hypogynous scales 
filiform, over } lin. long; ovary slender, cylindric, }—3 lin. long, 
spreadingly whitish-pubescent ; style finely-filiform, glabrous, 2 lin. 
long ; stigma subclavate, obtuse, not quite } lin. long. 
Coast Rxeeton ; Oudtshoorn Div. ; Zwartzberg Pass, Bolus, 12267 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
32. L. spathulatum (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 101); a 
small shrub; branches slender, loosely villous or shortly hirsute ; 
leaves rather crowded, spathulate or spathulate-oblanceolate, sub- 
acute to obtuse, narrowly attenuated at the base, entire or shortly 
2-3-dentate, about 1 in. long, 24-4 lin. broad, faintly but distinctly 
nerved, finely pubescent or glabrescent ; heads solitary, subsessile 
among the top leaves, 14 in. in diam.; peduncle very short, 
tomentose, with ovate acute to acuminate tomentose bracts ; 
involucral bracts few, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 24-3 lin. long, 
tomentose ; floral bracts?; adult flower-bud 8-9 lin. long, densely 
brown velvety-tomentose ; limbs lanceolate, dark red inside ; 
anthers sessile, 1} lin. long, with orange-coloured pollen; style 
9 lin. long, filiform ; stigma oblong-cylindric, subobtuse. Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 360. L. spathulatum, var. Nivenii, Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr. xiv. 258. Protea spathulata, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 
567.  Leucadendrum bellidifolium, Knight, Prot. 56, from the 
a Leucadendron spathulatum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 
ii, j | 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Niven ! 
A perfectly distinct species of uncertain affinity. The flowers of the only 
specimen in the Banksian herbarium at the British Museum are in the bud 
state and the head is so dried that it is impossible to examine it closely without 
destroying part of it. 
33. Leucadendrum gnaphaliifolium (Knight, Prot. 60); a tall 
shrub 7-8 ft. high; leaves crowded, elliptic-lanceolate, generally 
