Protea. | PROTEACEA (Stapf). 555 
Leaves less than 1 in. wide: 
Heads 4-5 in. long ; outer involucral bracts glabrous or 
glabrescent : 
Stem and leaf-bases (particularly those near the head) 
hirsute with long soft hairs ; beards pallid .-- (5) incompta. 
Stem and leaves glabrous, or the former tomentellous ; 
beards black or purple: 
Beard of inner involucral bracts forming a round 
apical tuft of long hairs ... oes sas --- (6) comigera. 
Beard of inner involucral bracts forming a fringe 
along the edges of the tips : 
Inner involucral bracts tomentose or villous on 
the back inside the long beards: 
Inner involucral bracts with black tips and a 
black or white beard ie al -» (7) Lepidocarpo- 
dendron, 
Inner involucral bracts with whitish or pinkish 
tips and a black beard cud ey .-» (8) neriifolia, 
Inner involucral bracts glabrous or finely pubescent 
on the back inside the short beards ... «.. (9) pulchella. 
Heads 33-3 in. long; outer involucral bracts pubescent, 
hirsute or villous : 
Leaves glabrous with the exception of the tomentose 
base and the ciliate margin; outer involucral 
bracts pubescent or hirsute oe se .-. (10) fulva. 
Leaves loosely covered with long hairs all over ; outer 
involucral bracts villous on the back and bearded 
along the margin... ee ns ap .. (11) patens, 
§ 2. Liacunatm. Heads always terminal, large, 4-6 in. lung; inner 
involucral bracts exceeding, rarely only equalling, the flowers, with a 
long slender claw and an oblong or oblanceolate, obtusely pointed, shortly 
villous or glabrous limb ; flowers 24-33 in. long ; perianth-lip tomentose - 
to villous all over, 3-awned, awns up to 15 lin. long, tomentose or villous ; 
style as in section 1, _Speciose. Shrubs or undershrubs with a distinct 
overground stem. 
Leaves (excepting sometimes those close to the head) 
elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rounded or subcordate at the 
base, 14-24 in. broad, 2 to 3 times as long : 
Leaves elliptic-cordate ; lateral awns of perianth-lip 
10-12 lin. long... ves gi ies ra ... (12) latifolia. 
" Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, uppermost sometimes 
eo’ lateral awns of — 5-6 
lin. long . wk ... (13) compacta. 
Leaves oblanceolate to aie narrowed towards the base, 
13 in. broad (rarely slightly pare, more than 
times as long : 
Leaves 8-21 lin. broad ; awns of perianth-lip 34-9 lin. 
long: 
Perianth-tube adpressedly silky-pubescent or shortly 
tomentose or finely villous: 
Flowers 33-33 in. long ; awns 9 lin. long: 
leaves broad towards the base to subcordate ; 
involucral scales more or less acute ... ... (14) magnifica. 
All the leaves narrowed at the base ; involucral 
bracts obtuse to rounded at the lips ... +» (15) macrophylla, 
