Aulazx.| PROTEACES (Stapf). 507 
slightly more than 1 lin.-long spreading segments ; nuts quadrangular, 
obovoid, dorsally more convex than ventrally, about 24 lin. long, 
angles prominent, lateral fringed all round with a fulvous silky 
spreading beard up to 2 lin. long, dorsal and ventral angles and 
the faces between them shortly tomentose, faces obliquely and 
prominently veined. A. umbellata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
50; Lindley in Bot. Reg. t. 1015 (6); Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
212. Protea aulacea, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 31, t. 2 (¢); Prodr. 26 ; 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 131; Lam. Ill. i, 237 ; Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 520; 
Poir. Encycl. v. 651. P. umbellata, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 32 ; Prodr. 
26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 131; Linn. f. Suppl. 118; Lam. Ill. i. 237 ; 
Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 520 ; Andr. Bot. Repos. t. 248 (9); Poir. Encyel. 
v. 650. Sim, For. Fl. Cape, 293, t. 123, fig. 1. P. eneorifolia, 
Salish. Prodr. 49. BP. lanceolata, DC. ex Meisn. l.c. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, ! Thom, 95, 6! 784, g! 936, 3! 
Coast Reaion : Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Thunberg, ? ! Caledon Div. ; near 
Palmiet River and Houw Hoek, Drége ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3633, 
3, 9! Pappe, 8, ° ! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr. 772, 6, 2! 
Schlechter, 7450, g! 7449, 9! Hermanus, Galpin, 4437, ¢ ! Bredasdorp Div. ; 
near Elim, Schlechter, 7622, 9! 7623, g! Bolus, 7862, $ ! Riversdale Div. ; 
Platte Kloof, Thunberg, 3! 
2. A. pinifolia (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 33); a shrub, up to 6 ft. 
high ; leaves more or less needle-shaped and semiterete, more rarely 
distinctly widened upwards and there up to 1 lin. wide, acute or 
subacute, 14-6 in. long, usually much curved ; male racemes }-1 in. 
long ; bracts up to 2 lin. long, exceeding or in old racemes equalling 
the ultimately lengthened pedicels ; perianth yellow, 3-3} lin. long 
including the 2-2} lin.long limb; anthers about 1 lin. long, 
usually at length recurved; style 23-3 lin. long, very slender ; 
female heads 3-1 in. long and 1-14 in. across when mature ; 
involucral branches rot bearing flowers, mére or less fused below 
into a shallow receptacle, quite glabrous, at length hard and woody ; 
dorsal leaves lanceolate-linear to subulate, acute, 3-14 (or more) in. 
long ; central axis ending in a compact tuft of barren (at length 
hardened) subulate bracts, including them } in. long; bracts 
subulate 3-1 lin. long; perianth 4 lin. long, including the slightly 
more than 1 lin.-long spreading or recurved segments ; style 2} lin. 
long, long persistent; nut obovoid, dorsally more convex than 
ventrally, 24-3 lin. long, ribbed, lateral ribs fringed all round with 
a fulvous silky beard up to 2 lin. long, dorsal and ventral ribs and 
faces shortly tomentose or the ventral rib with longer hairs, faces 
transversely and more or less prominently veined. Knight, Prot. 
15; R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 49 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
212. Aulax umbellata, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 97 
(and 167 partly), not of R. Br. Leucadendron pinifolium, Linn. 
Mant. 36. L. cancellatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 91. Protea pinifolia, 
Linn. Mant. alt. 187 ; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 25; Prodr. 26; Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 127; Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 515; Lam. Ml. i, 237 ; Andr. 
Bot. Repos. t. 76 (9); Poir. Encycl. v. 651. Protea bracteata, 
