Protea. | PROTEACE (Stapf). 557 
§ 5. LastocepHata. Heads terminal, medium-sized, 23-3 in. long; 
inyolucral bracts gradually increasing in size inwards, firm, silky-tomen- 
tose or finely pubescent, rarely nearly glabrous, inner equalling the 
flowers or shorter, densely ciliate or nearly glabrous on the margins ; 
flowers 1y 28 in. long ; lip 6-9 lin. long, 3-dentate, villous or pubescent 
all over ; styles very slender, subulate from a very slightly widened base, 
slightly curved, almost imperceptibly passing into the stigma or separated 
from it by a minute bend. Shrubs or undershrubs. 
Flowers 2-23 in. long: 
Leaves falcate, linear-oblong, long attenuated towards 
the base att a oe ap re --» (80) curvata. 
Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong or lanceolate, shortly 
attenuated or broad at the base, not faleate : 
Involucral bracts silky-pubescent only when quite 
young ; perianth-lip adpressedly pubescent ... (31) grandiflora. 
Involucral bracts more orless permanently silky-pubes- 
cent to villous; perianth-lip shaggy-pubescent : 
Stem glabrous ... i set yee He +» (82) trigona. 
Stem pilose, at least when young. ... cbs +.» (33) abyssinica, 
Flowers under 2 in. long: 
Branches and leaves pilose, the latter distinctly veined ; 
perianth-sheath villous down to the widened base ... (34) hirta. 
Branches and leaves glabrous, the latter indistinctly 
veined : 
Perianth-sheath densely hairy: 
Innermost involucral bractsslightly produced beyond . 
the preceding series, much shorter than the. 
flowers +s ee oes fe vp ‘ee 
Innermost involucral bracts much produced beyond 
the preceding series, equalling the flowers +» (86) rupicola. 
Perianth-sheath glabrous, excepting for a few hairs 
towards the lip sale oe ak “t, 
(35) Dykei. 
ver (87) glabra. 
§ 6. LetocerHaL#. Heads terminal, medium-sized to small, not over 
2 in. long, or, if so, then the base contracted into a scaly stipes ; in- 
volucral bracts gradually increasing in size inwards, firm, glabrous or 
nearly so (see 41, P. caffra) ; inner bracts equalling the flowers or shorter, 
their tips rounded with glabrous, rarely pubescent, margins ; flowers under 
1? in, long ; lip 3-7 lin. long, glabrous or with scanty rigid hairs along 
the sides, and more often at the tips, forming a frequently fugacious 
tuft, rarely permanently and densely pubescent on the sides and tips 
(39, P. convexa) ; styles more or less curved, sometimes strongly so in the 
upper part, or sickle-shaped, subulate from a bulbously thickened or 
obliquely widened base, with a sudden small bend or gradually passing 
into the very slender stigma. Shrubs or undershrubs. 
Leaves very glaucous, obovate to obovate-oblong, 3-8 ‘in. 
by 14 (rarely 1)-3 in., quite glabrous and smooth : 
Perianth-lip. with deciduous brown rigid hairs, gla- 
brescent ; perianth-sheath glabrous ... ‘ee a 
Perianth-lip permanently whitish-pubescent on the sides 
and tips ; perianth-sheath ciliate ... see ++» (39) convexa. 
Leaves not glaucous, or, if slightly so, then narrower than 
in the preceding a : 
Leaves oblong, woolly when young, 2-2} by 2-1 in. ; 
perianth-lip glabrous or with a few hairs: on the : 
bosthins 18505" se. sik oe i ae +» (40) punetata, 
(38) recondita. 
