Protea. | PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 563 
3. P. barbigera (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 233) ; a large bush, 
8-9 ft. high ; branches tomentose towards the heads ; leaves sessile, 
31-74 in. long, 3-1? in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 
with thickened margins and a prominent midrib, loosely and softly 
hairy, particularly towards the base, at length glabrous ; heads 
sessile, 5-6 in. long, about 6 in. wide ; involucral bracts 9—10-seriate, 
silky pubescent ; outer ovate-oblong, subacute to obtuse, bearded ; 
inner oblanceolate-oblong or the innermost narrowed downwards 
into a long narrow claw, subacuminate or cuspidate, with a whitish 
or (dry) fulvous beard, 2 lin. long, equalling the flowers ; perianth- 
sheath 2 in. long, very gradually dilated and 7-nerved and 3-keeled 
below, densely pubescent to villous excepting at the glabrous base ; 
lip 1} in. long, pubescent or villous on the sides, less so or glabrescent 
on the back, long-villous upwards, produced into 2 densely ciliate 
undulating awns, | in. long, cilia secund, up to 4 lin. long, passing 
into more or less purple woolly tufts upwards ; fertile stamens 3, 
24 lin. long; anthers linear; apical glands j lin. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate ; barren anther 2} lin. long, oblong, acuminate, 
acute, eglandular, with a filiform filament } lin. long ; ovary 1 lin. 
long, obovoid, covered with long reddish hairs ; style 2} in. long, 
gently curved, laterally compressed below, more or less terete above, 
with a short ventral groove, ending in a projecting point above the 
ovary, pubescent ; stigma 3 lin. long, linear, acute, kneed at the 
junction with the style. P. speciosa, Drege, partly, ex Meisn. Le. 
P. macrophylla, Buek ex Meisn. lc. Scolymocephalus africanus foliis 
angustis villosis, Weinm. Phyt. iv. t. 894 (here ?). 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Gueinzius | 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; Blue Berg, Drége. Worcester Div. ; 
Dutoits Kloof, Drége ; Matroos Berg, Lamb in Herb. Bolus, 9370! Tulbagh Div. ; 
Witzenberg, Zeyher! Tulbagh Waterfall, Phillips, 527! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland Mountains near Lowrys Pass, MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 
1763 ! Swellendam Div. ; between Sparrbosch and Tradouw, Drége! 
4. P. marginata (Thunb. in Hoffm. Phytogr. Blaett. i. 15); 
branches tomentellous, at length glabrescent; leaves shortly 
petiolate, 3-6 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, lanceolate, acute or subacute, 
woolly towards the base, particularly on the midrib, soon more or 
less glabrous, distinctly veined, with thickened margins; petiole 
tomentose or glabrous ; heads sessile, 5 in. long, about 4 in. wide ; 
involucral bracts 10—11-seriate ; outer ovate, subacuminate, obtuse, 
recurved, silky pubescent, at length partly glabrescent; inner 
oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute or innermost long- 
produced, spathulate and clawed, silky-pubescent, long-bearded, 
beard blackish-purple, often mixed with white; perianth-sheath 
2 in. long, very gradually dilated and 7-nerved and 3-keeled at the 
glabrous base, pubescent to villous above ; lip 1 in. long, pubescent, 
more or less glabrescent on the back, 3-awned, lateral awns 5 lin. 
long, linear, acuminate, ciliate below the woolly tips ; cilia secund, 
up to 24 lin. long, purple; median awn 4% lin. long, filiform ; 
fertile stamens 3; filaments } lin. long, dilated concave; anthers 
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