508 PROTEACE& (Stapf). [| Aulax. 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 27, t. 1 (g); Prodr. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 128 ; 
Linn. fil. Suppl. 118; Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 517; Lam. Ill. i. 288 ; 
Poir. Encyel. v. 652. Lepidocarpendron, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. 
Lugd. Bot. ii. 193, t. 193 (2)? Pini foliis planta, etc., Burm. Rar. 
Afr. Pl. 193, t. 70, fig. 3(g). Conophorus Capensis pinifolius, Petiv. 
Op. i, 3, no. 458, t. 25, fig. 7 (9). 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zcklon, g! Thunberg, $! Sparmann, 6! 
Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drége, g, ?! Cape Div. ; 
Muizenberg, Ecklon, 122b, 2! Table Mountain, Burchell, 527, 3, 2 |! near Cape Town, 
Schmieterlich, 183, &! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Zhunberg, ¢! 
Caledon Div.; Knoflooks Kraal and Little Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3634, 6, @! 
Nieuwe Kloof, Burchell, 8148, 9 ! lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Garcias 
Pass, Burchell, 6951, $, 9! George Div. ; Lange Kloof, Dréye, 9! Knysna Div. ; 
between Plettenbergs Bay and Knysna, Burchell, 5352, 3, 9! 
Protea bracteata was described from female specimens, and the specimen 
named so in Thunberg’s own herbarium at Upsala is no doubt identical with 
Berg’s A. pinifolia ; but two specimens in Montini’s and Alstroemer’s Herbarium 
in the Stockholm collections, received from Thunberg, and also named P. bracteata, 
are A, pallasia. 
3. A. pallasia (Stapf); a shrub, up to 4 ft. high; leaves inter- 
mediate in shape between those of the two preceding species from 
linear-filiform to linear with a long attenuated base, acute to obtuse, 
2-5 in. long, 3-2 (rarely 3) lin. wide, rather straight, flat or the 
narrowest semiterete and channelled above; male racemes 1-1} in. 
long ; bracts up to 2 lin. long, exceeding or the upper equalling the 
pedicels ; perianth 3-4 lin. long, including the 2} lin.-long limb ; 
anthers over 1 lin. long, usually at length recurved ; style 3 lin. 
long, very slender ; female heads 4—} in. long and }~1 in. across ; 
involucral branches bearing 1 flower at or above the lower 4, 
narrow, not fused at the base into a receptacle at length hard and 
woody, usually sparingly and minutely puberulous, particularly 
below, often deeply divided, the lateral divisions without flowers 
and pectinate-bracteate, pectination throughout .looser than in the 
preceding species ; dorsal leaves few, mostly needle-shaped, acute, 
incurved, rarely flat, linear to oblanceolate-linear and obtuse, 
3-1 in. long, forming with the uppermost leaves a dense outer 
involucre, central axis rather slender, including the terminal barren 
bracts over } in. long, usually bearing flowers to more than } way ; 
bracts subulate, 2-1 lin. long ; perianth 3} lin. long, including the 
slightly finely filiform more than 1 Jin.-long spreading or recurved 
segments ; style 2} lin. long; nut ellipsoid, shortly contracted at 
the base, elliptic in cross-section, with 4 rather broad primary 
and 4 slender secondary ribs, more or less fulvous-villous all over, 
the hairs on the ribs, and particularly those of the lateral, longer 
than the rest. A. umbellata, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docu- 
mente, 85, 97 (and 167 partly) , not of R. Br. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, 9! Thom, 331, ?! 469, 6! 
Forster, ! Gueinzius, 3! 
Coast Reaion: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8695, 9! 8731, q! 
Winterhoeks Berg, Bolus, 5226, 9! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drege, ?! 
