564 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). [ Protea. 
linear, 3 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, acuminate, 
acute ; barren stamen stalked, acute, eglandular ; ovary 2 lin. long, 
oblong in outline, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 
2 in. long, tapering, very gently curved, laterally compressed and 
slightly dilated above the ovary, pubescent ; stigma 34 lin. long, 
linear, acuminate, obtuse, kneed and slightly bent at the junction 
with the style. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Banks! Drege! Labillardiere ! 
Gueinzius, 188 ! 
Coast Recron: Clanwilliam Div. ; Olifants River, Marloth, 3204! Blue Berg, 
Schlechter, 8475! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh, Pappe! MacOwan! Saron, Schlechter, 
7881! Paarl Div. ; Drakenstein Mountains, near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4066! 
Swellendam Div.; Tradouw, Drége, 3360! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Algoa Bay 
(wrong locality ?), Cooper, 3069 ! 
This species differs from P. neriifolia, R. Br., by the broader leaves and shorter 
awns. 
5. P. incompta (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 83); an erect 
shrub, 3-4 ft. high ; branches densely pilose with long soft hairs, 
at length glabrescent ; leaves 2-4 in. long, }—1} in. broad, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, reticulately veined, 
with a strong midrib, younger softly pilose to hirsute, particularly 
those near the head, at length glabrescent ; heads sessile, 23-3} in. 
long, about 3} in. wide, surrounded by leaves, the innermost of 
which are narrower to linear, gradually shorter and very hirsute, 
often widened and coriaceous at the base, gradually passing into 
appendaged bracts; involucral bracts. 5—6-seriate, outer oblong, 
obtuse, green, glabrous; inner oblong, widened above, incurved, 
shortly white-bearded, slightly exceeding the flowers ; perianth- 
sheat: 13 in. long, loosely hairy above, glabrous below, faintly 
5-nerved, gradually dilated and faintly 3-keeled at the base ; lip 
villous on the sides, 3-awned, lateral awns 5 lin. long, linear, 
flexuous, loosely long-villous with white hairs; stamens all fertile ; | 
anthers linear, 3 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; 
filaments 3 lin. long, swollen ; ovary 1} lin. long, ellipsoid, densely 
covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 2} in. long, tapering 
and almost straight above, laterally compressed below, ventrally 
furrowed, glabrous ; stigma 3 lin. long, subulate, gradually passing 
into the style. Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 347 ; Krauss in Flora, 
1845, 75 (by error incorrupta) ; Krauss in Beitr. Fl. Cap- und Natall. 
139 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 234. P. macrocephala, Thunb. in 
Hoffm. Phytogr. Blaett. i. 13 (2). Erodendrum incomptum, Knight, 
Prot. 37. Scolymocephalus seu Lepidocarpodendron, ete., Weinm. 
Phyt. iv. t. 898. 
Var. 8, Susanne (E. P. Phillips); leaves with a silky silvery tomentum > 
branches densely silky above. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Drege! Sieber 1! Boos! Scholl! Thunberg * 
Oldenburg, 614! Bergius! Ludwig! Ecklon, 331! Ly 
Coast REGION: Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Ecklon, 652! Bolus, 4575! Wilms. 
3566! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr,-Afr. 785! Lion Mountain, Dreyse - 
