562 PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
according to Knight the beard varies to reddish-purple. The Lotanical Magazine 
plate (t. 1183) shows, moreover, a black line below the beard. 
No copy of the first (incomplete) issue of Trattinick’s Thesaurus, containing 
the name, description and figures of P. grandiceps, was accessible to us, But 
from the text to t. xii. and the preface of the second edition, it is perfectly clear 
that plate xii. was the same in both issues, whilst the name and the description 
were cancelled in the second owing to the identification of the plant with 
Andrews’ t. 110, which had erroneously been referred to P. speciosa. 
2. P. speciosa (Linn. Mant. alt. 191); a bush 3-4 ft. high; branches 
finely tomentellous when young, then glabrous, with reddish bark ; 
leaves 4-4} in. long, 14-1} in. broad, obovate to oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, sometimes subapiculate, stoutly coriaceous, ciliate and 
villous at the base, usually at length quite glabrous ; heads sessile, 
5 in. long, 3-5 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 9-1 1-seriate ; outer 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, silky pubescent, generally bearded at the apex, 
inner much elongated, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, whitish, silky 
pubescent or upwards tomentose with a dense reddish-brown beard, 
4-5 lin. long; perianth-sheath very slender, membranous, 2} in. 
long, gradually dilated and faintly 7-nerved and 3-keeled below, 
densely pubescent above the dilated part ; lip 1 in. long, densely 
pubescent, villosulous above, 3-awned, lateral awns 5 lin. long, 
linear, acuminate, tomentose with penicillate tips; median awn 
14 lin. long; stamens all fertile ; anthers linear, 3 lin. long; 
filaments 3 lin. long, flattened concave ; apical glands } lin. long, 
linear-oblong; ovary 2 lin. long, oblong, covered with numerous 
long golden hairs ; style 24 in. long, gently curved, laterally flattened, 
somewhat swollen above the ovary, pubescent in the lower third ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, linear, suddenly bent at the junction with the 
style. Thunb. Diss. Prot. 42, 56, partly; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 139 ; 
R. Br. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 78 (excl. the two last synonyms) ; 
Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 343, partly; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 231, partly ; var. obovata, Meisn, Lc. ; Roupell, Cape Flow. t. 6. 
P. barbaia, Lam. Ill. i. 236. P. Lepidocarpodendron, B, Linn. Syst. 
ed. xiii. 118. Leucadendron speciosum, Linn. Mant. i, 36 (excl. cit. 
Clus.). Erodendrum speciosum, Knight, Prot. 39 with plate. Lepi- 
carpodendron folio oblongo, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pi. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 
ae . 185. Scolymocephalus foliis longis, etc., Weinm. Phyt. iv. 288, - 
Z. ‘ 
Var. 8, angustata (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 231); leaves 34-5} in. long, 
5-12 lin. broad, gradually widening from the base upwards. 
Sourn AFrica: without locality, Niven! Oldenburg, 612! Nelson! Var. B: 
Zeyher, 3666a partly ! 
Coast REGION : Clanwilliam Div.; Olifants River, near Brackfontein, Zeyher | 
Cape Div. ; Simons Town, Wright, 639! Table Mountain, Thunberg! Brown | 
Bolus, 4485! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Roaburgh, 38! Caledon 
Div. ; Mountains near Hemel en Aarde, Zeyher, 3666a partly! Houw Hoek, 
MacOwan in Herb, Austr.-Afr. 1764 partly! Klein River, Arauss, 1042. 
Swellendam Div. ; Between Sparrbosch and Tradouw, Drege! Var. B: Bredas- — 
dorp Div. ; Koude River, Schlechter, 9610! Caledon Diy. ; Houw Hoek, MacOwan 
in Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1764, partly ! Appels Kraal and River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 
36668! near Onrust River, Zeyher, 3666! Zwarteberg Kloof, Ludwig, 10! 
