552 PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Zeucadendron. 
_ 73. L. polygaloides (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 115). Protea 
polygaloides, Willd. Enum. Suppl. 7, name only. 
Soutu Arrica: formerly cultivated at Berlin. 
_ 74, L. splendens (Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr., 4); leaves lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous ; head foliaceous. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Burmann. 
75. L. undulatum (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 115, name only). 
SoutH Arrica: formerly cultivated at Berlin. 
IV. PROTEA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, zygomorphic. Perianth tetramerous, 
tubular in bud, slender, more or less widened towards the base, 
early divided into an anticous (abaxial) segment with a long very 
slender claw and a narrow oblong or linear limb and a posticous 
(adaxial) portion, consisting of the fused posticous and lateral 
segments, their claws forming a long anteriorily open sheath and 
their limbs a linear to oblong, concave or subtubular, equally or 
unequally 3-lobed lip, the lobes being either short, tooth-like or 
produced into slender often filiform awn-like and very hairy 
processes, the whole perianth variously hairy or glabrous. Anthers 
‘sessile or subsessile, inserted low down on and shorter than the 
-perianth-limbs, linear, rarely oblong ; tip of connective produced 
into a small fleshy gland. Hypogynous scales 4, free, variously 
shaped, rarely absent. Ovary covered with long hairs ; style rigid, 
straight or curved, terete or laterally compressed, sometimes 
_bulbously thickened at the base or with a glandular (?) depression 
on the inner (adaxial) side, glabrous or hairy; stigma slender, 
mostly finely grooved, gradually passing into the style or suddenly 
bent or kneed at the junction with the style. Ovule 1, sublaterally 
attached, subpendulous, anatropous. Nut densely bearded, crowned 
by the persistent style. 
Small trees, shrubs or acaulescent i ith glabrous or hairy stems ; 
leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, ty ce pesos pees in many-dowered, 
sessile or subsessile, terminal or lateral, usually solitary heads, enclosed in an 
involucre of numerous imbricate, coriaceous to scarious, glabrous or hairy, some- 
times bearded, variously coloured bracts ; receptacle flat, convex or conical, 
bearing numerous short, persistent, free or coalescent pales. 
DistriB. Mostlyin the south-western parts of Cape Colony, but also extending 
northwards into tropical Africa, few north of the equator, Species about 100, 
The working out of the genus P; i icular difficulties owi 
to the great naneel of evenly Ganrhed weeie eat the scanty material 
in the herbaria, A considerable number of Proteas were introduced into culti- 
vation in Europe at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. 
Not a few of them were figured when they came into flower, the plates 
generally be’ng accompanied by the most meagre and vague descriptions ; 
others were only briefly described from the cultivated specimens, whilst usually 
no specimens were preserved or only fragments, and even these have been lost 
in many cases, Interest in those plants soon waned, and with it the plants dis- 
appeared from the gardens, Nor were many of them collected again, and for — 
