Protea. | PROTEACE& (Phillips & Stapf). 561 
long; involucral bracts gradually increasing upwards, shortly pubescent, 
the inner equalling or exceeding the flowers, more or less spathulate, tips 
ciliate or villous ; flowers less than 1 in. long ; perianth-lip 14-24 lin. 
long, glabrous excepting at the tips; style as in the preceding section. 
Small shrubs with erect or decumbent branches. 
Leaves linear or acicular : 
Leaves linear, 1}-2 lin. broad, flat ... we ... (80) humiflora. 
Leaves acicular, 4-3 lin. broad: 
Leaves 14-2} in. long, decurrent ... — -.» (81) decurrens. 
Leaves $-1 in. long, not decurrent a --- (82) acerosa. 
Leaves broad and cordate at the base : 
Leaves very few, not crowded, broadly ovate or 
orbicular, 2-44 by 14-43 in... ve “us 
Leaves very numerous and crowded, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, 1-24 in. by 3-14 in. dai ... (84) amplexicaulis. 
(83) cordata. 
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1. P. grandiceps (Tratt. Thesaur. ed. i. (1805), 5(%), t. 12); a 
shrub, 4-5 ft. high ; branches glabrous, rarely with some long hairs 
when young ; leaves elliptic, obtuse, slightly narrowed to and often 
subcordate at the base, 3}—5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, 
glaucous, with often red cartilaginous margins, prominently veined 
above and beneath, glabrous or ciliate with long loose soft hairs 
when young; heads sessile, 4} in. long, 4-6 in. in diam. ; 
involucral bracts 8-seriate, more or less silky-pubescent, outer ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, with glabrous or ciliate margins, inner oblong, 
widened at the apex, more or less red or rose-purple with a 
white beard 4-5 lin. long, exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 
very slender, membranous, 2 in. long, gradually expanded and 
faintly 7-nerved and 3-keeled below, rufously hirsute with the 
exception of the glabrous base ; lip 9 lin. long, upwards more or less 
hirsute and ciliate with long pale hairs, 3-awned, awns glabrous 
or nearly so, the lateral 3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, the median 
14 lin. long; stamens all fertile; anthers linear, 3 lin. long ; 
filaments 4} lin. long, flattened ; apical glands oblong-lanceolate, 
4 lin. long; ovary obovoid, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; 
style tapering upwards, 2 in. long, laterally flattened, jointed on 
the ovary, but not disarticulating, glabrous; stigma 3 lin. long, 
linear, passing abruptly into the style. P. speciosa, Gawl. Recens. 8; 
Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1183; Tratt. Thesaur. ed. ii. 1819, 5, t. 12, not of 
Linn. ; var. latifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 110. P. coccinea, R. Br. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 77; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 343 ; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 230. P. obtusa, Knight ex Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 
i. 346; Loud. Encycl. Pl. ed. i. 80; Hort. Bett. 2 i,-87. 
P. rangiferina, Hort. teste Roem. & Schult. lc. Mant. 263. P. villi- 
fera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1023. Erodendrum obtusum, Knight, Prot. 38. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Boos! Forster! 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Swellendam Div. ; 
Nwellendam, Zeyher! Cape Div. ; Devils Peak, Niven! Ecklon, 651! Table 
Mountain, Heklon, 651! Camps Bay, Zeyher, 4682! ; 
The involucral bracts are described as scarlet in Salisbury’s herbarium and 
shown as rose-coloured or purple with white beards in the plates quoted ; but 
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