DESCRIPTION:--_Root_ thick, fleshy, simple or branched up to 30 mm. in diam. and 20 cm. long. _Stem_ none, but one or more short branches arising from the crown of the caudex. _Leaves_ crowded, 6-10 on a branch, mostly erect and exposing the margin to the midday sun, cuneate, gradually narrowed to the base, the apex straight or slightly rounded, occasionally with a blunt mucro; the apical portion, and especially the apical margin, closely covered with fine tubercles; on the wild plant the entire leaf greyish-green, the margin reddish. _Flowers_ solitary on each branch, sessile or subsessile, supported by 2 connate leaf-like bracts. _Calyx_ turbiniform, 10-12 mm. long, the tube 11-13 mm. in diam. at the mouth; sepals 5, of which 3 nearly equal, the 2 others narrower, all triangular, 10 mm. long and wide, with a very narrow hyaline margin and a thick umbo below the apex, finely tuberculate like the leaves, grey, the margin red. _Petals_ uniseriate, narrow-lanceolate or spathulate, 13-14 mm. long and 2-2·5 mm. wide in the middle, deep pink on the inner side, paler on the outer side. _Stamens_ white, bending inwards near the base and then erect, bearded at the bend. _Styles_ 8-10, filiform, 6 mm. long, arising from the apex of the conical ovary. Total diam. of open flower 20-25 mm., opening in the sun and closing towards evening for several days. * * * * * PLATE 73.--Fig. 1, longitudinal section through the flower; Fig. 2, calyx; Fig. 3, gynaecium; Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, petals and stamen; Fig. 8, entire leaf; Fig. 9, cross-sections of leaf. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _74._ S Gower del.] PLATE 74. LEUCOSPERMUM TOTTUM, _var._ GLABRUM. _Cape Province._ * * * * * PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEEAE. LEUCOSPERMUM, _R. Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 170. * * * * * =Leucospermum tottum=, _R. Br._, _var._ =glabrum=, _Phillips_, var. nov. a typo ramis glabris, bracteis eciliatis differt. * * * * * This interesting _Leucospermum_ was collected by Mr. T. P. Stokoe in Jan du Toit’s Kloof near Chavonnesberg, in the Western Province. Mr. Stokoe states that only a few plants were observed growing in a belt of _Proteaceae_. It is evidently very closely related to _L. tottum_, from which it differs in having glabrous branches and non-ciliate involucral bracts, and should be regarded as a glabrous variety of this species. The genus _Leucospermum_ is closely related to _Protea_ (see plate 22) but differs from that genus in having the limb of the posticous segment divided and not completely fused. The well-known “Kreupelboom” (_L. concospermum_) belongs to this genus.