566 PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
groove (gland?) at the base, ending below a small knob ; stigma 
3 lin. long, linear, acute, kneed at the junction with the style. 
P. speciosa, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 42, 56, partly ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 531, 
partly ; Thunb, Fl. Cap. ed Schult. 139, partly. P. cristata, Lam. Hil. 
i. 235; Poir. Encyel. v.644. P. scabrida, Thunb. in Hoffm. Phytogr. 
Blaett. i. (1803), 14. P. lepidocarpon, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 80; Roem. d& Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 346; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 232. Leucadendron Lepidocarpodendron, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. i. 91. Lepidocarpodendron foliis angustis, ete., Boerh. Ind. Pl. 
Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 188. Scolymocephalus africanus, ete., Weinm. 
Phyt. iv. 289, t. 895. 
Var. 8, villosa (E. P. Phillips); branches pilose ; leaves oblong-linear, acute, 
ciliate, younger pilose, at length glabrous. P. melaleuca, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 79; Tratt. Thes. t. 11; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 232. P. speciosa, var 
nigra, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 103. P. lepidocarpon, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 674. 
P. villosa, Hort. Bollw. ex Meisn. l.c. 233,  P, glauca, d, Drége ex Meisn. le. 
P. nigrita, DC. Herb. ex Meisn. lc. Erodendrum neriifolium, Knight, Prot, 40. 
Scolymocephalus melaleucus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 280. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Ludwig! Sparmann! Forokier ! Thunberg ! 
on Boos! Sieber! Oldenburg, 374! Bergius! Scholl! Var. B, Martin! 
vouwn, 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Blue Berg, Schlechter, 8475! Cape Div. 3 
mountains near Cape Town and on the Cape Peninsula, Burchell, 402! Scholl | 
Osbech | Zeyher, 3657! Ecklon, 653! Krauss! Drége; Jameson ! Bolus, 4026 
Wilms, 3567! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 784! Phillips ! Var. B: Cape 
Div.; Lion Mountain, Bolus, 2901! Swellendam Div. ; between Sparrbosch and 
Tradouw, Drége. Port Elizabeth Div. ; Van Stadensberg, Drege. Caledon Div. 5 
Genadendal, Drége ! 
We have seen Martin’s specimen, preserved in the Herb. Mus. Palat. Vindob., 
and it undoubtedly agrees with Brown’s description of P. melaleuca and also 
with the post-linnean figures which he cites. We cannot regard this plant as 
specifically distinct from P. Lepidocarpodendron, Linn., but the hairy branches, 
and the hairy and acute leaves warrant its being kept separate us a variety. 
8. P. neriifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 81); an erect 
shrub, 3-5 ft. high; branches tomentellous ; leaves 3-5} in. long, 
4-11 lin. broad, linear to. linear-oblong, subobtuse, penninerve 
with a conspicuous midrib, glabrous or woolly at the base ; head 
sessile, 44-5 in. long, about 3 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
1l-seriate ; outer squarrose, recurved, densely silky-pubescent or 
glabrescent ; inner oblong or linear-oblong, densely silky-pubescent 
or tomentose above, innermost with an oblanceolate limb and a 
slender claw bearing a purplish-black beard up to 24 lin. long, 
exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 2} in. long, base dilated, 
glabrous, faintly 5—7-nerved and 3-keeled, otherwise loosely pubes- 
cent to densely villous ; lip 1} in. long, 3-awned, villous along the 
sides, glabrous on the back, long and densely ciliate above ; lateral 
awns 9 lin, long, densely ciliate, cilia secund and up to 3 lin. long, 
purple or fulvous; median awn 3} lin. long, filiform ; fertile 
stamens 3; anthers linear, 3 lin. long, apical glands } lin. long, 
ovate, acuminate, acute, keeled on the inner face; filaments 2 lin. 
long, dilated, concave; barren anther 2 lin. long, linear, acute, 
