Protea.] PROTEACE# (Phillips & Stapf). 565 
Pappe, 14! Table Mountain, Krauss! Between Rondebosch and Wynberg, 
Burchell, 772! Wynberg, Roxburgh! near Cape Town, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 
5019! Caledon Div. ; Little Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3658! Var. 8: Riversdale 
Div. ; Mountains above Platte Kloof, Muir, 390; George Div. ; Barbiers Kloof, 
near George, Bowie ! 
If Protea macrocephala, Thunh., the original of which we have not seen, should 
really prove to be identical with R. Brown’s P. incompta, as is very probable, the 
former name would have to stand. 
6. P. comigera (Stapf) ; an undershrub, about 3 ft. high, of bushy 
growth ; branches glabrous, purplish ; leaves lanceolate or oblanceo- 
late, narrowed towards the base, more or less undulate, acute or 
subacute, up to 4 in, long and 3-4 in. broad, coriaceous with | 
thickened pinkish margins, glabrous, with a prominent midrib and 
obscure venation ; heads sessile, oblong-turbinate, 4 in. long, 3 in. 
across ; involucral bracts 7—8-seriate, outermost green with black 
tips, the following pinkish upwards with black tips, the inner and 
innermost yellowish on the back with pinkish sides, ciliate and the 
innermost crowned with a large round tuft of long black hairs, all 
more or less lanceolate and acute, the inner much elongated ; 
perianth-sheath 14-1} in. long, purplish, pubescent and villous 
upwards ; lip 4—5 lin. long, awned, awns about $ in. long, purplish- 
villous ; anthers 3 lin. long with a red apical gland ; style 1? in. 
long, purple upwards, glabrous ; stigma 4 lin. long, geniculate at 
the junction with the style. P. grandiflora, var. foliis undulatis, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 301. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Niven. 
Only known from the figure and description quoted, which were made from a 
plant introduced into Hibbert’s garden by Niven in 1800. 
7. P. Lepidocarpodendron (Linn. Mant. alt. 190); a large bush, 
6-8 ft. high; branches glabrous (in the type); leaves sessile, 
34-4 in. long, 4—8 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, glabrous, 
with a prominent midrib and thickened pink margins; heads sessile, 
33-4 in. long, about 24 in. wide; involucral bracts 8-seriate ; outer 
ovate-oblong, brown, silky-pubescent, with a white fringe of cilia 
and sometimes a white apical beard, inner oblong to linear, 
pubescent, green, innermost spathulate, clawed, with a black 
densely tomentose limb surrounded by a white or black beard, 
exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, slightly and 
very gradually dilated and 7-nerved and 3-keeled below ; fulvously 
or rufously villous excepting at the very base which is glabrous ; 
lip 7 lin. long, 3-awned, lateral awns 5 lin. long, filiform or capil- 
lary, long ciliate, cilia secund, purplish or fulvous; median awn 
2 lin. long, filiform ; fertile stamens 3; anthers 3 lin. long, linear, 
apical glands } lin. long, ovate, acuminate ; filaments } lin. long, 
flattened ; barren stamen 2 lin. long, acute, eglandular, with a 
filiform filament, 1 lin. long; ovary densely covered with long 
reddish-brown hairs; style 2 in. long, almost straight, tapering 
upwards, laterally compressed, pubescent, with a short ventral 
