Protea. | PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). Ree 
eglandular, with a filament 2 lin. long; ovary. oblong, 3 lin. long, 
covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 2} in. long, tapering 
upwards, compressed up to the middle, then terete, shortly villous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, distinctly kneed and bent 
at the junction with the style. Bot. Reg. t. 208; Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr. xiv. 233 (inel. var. glauca). P. pulchella, Bot. Reg. 
t. 20; Reichenb. Fl. Exot. iv. t. 218; Geel, Sert. Bot., not of 
Andr. P. glauca, Buek ex Meisn. lc. Cardui generis elegantissimi, 
ete., Clus. Exot. 38, fig. 15 on p. 39. 
SoutH AFRIca: without locality, Pillans in Herb. Bolus, 12535! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; Roode Zand, Bowie! De Liefde, Drége! 
Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof and Hex River, Drége! Bains Kloof, Bolus, 
4066! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, Dréje! Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Brown ! 
Zeyher, 3657! Constantia, Bowie! near Cape Town, tudwig, 10! Lions Head, 
MacOwan in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 784 partly! Below Platteklip, Phillips ! 
Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drége! MacOwan! Swellendam Div. ; Swellendam, 
Bowie! Fry in Herb. Galpin 4984! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Phillips, 504 ! 
510! 514! Knysna Div.; Between Plettenbergs Bay and Knysna, Burchell, 
5350! Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Berg, Zeyher, 3659 ! 
The involucral bracts are white or pink and the inner capped with a dense 
beard of purple-black hairs, sometimes interspersed with white. The awns are 
of a light tawny colour. This plant was distributed by MacOwan in the Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr. as P. lepidocarpon, R. Br., but can be at once distinguished 
from this species by the inner involucral bracts being black-bearded at the apex 
and not black-tomentose on the back as in P. Lepidocarpodendron, Linn. 
(P. lepidocarpon, R. Br.). 
9. P. pulchella (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 270); a stout shrub, 2-5 ft. 
high ; branches tomentellous, at length glabrous ; leaves 14-6} in. 
long, 3-7 lin. broad, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowed at 
the base, with a prominent midrib, pubescent when young, some- 
times ciliate, at length glabrous ; head sessile, 3}—4 in. long, about 
2-4 in. in diam., surrounded by the upper foliage leaves ; involucral 
bracts 10—12-seriate ; the lowermost tomentose or pubescent ; outer 
ovate, subacuminate, obtuse or subobtuse, green with reddish tips, 
glabrous or ciliate, inner oblong to linear-oblanceolate or broad- 
linear, glabrous or pubescent below the rose- or carmine-purple to 
black beard, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, 
_ glabrous, whitish pubescent to villous above the gradually dilated 
5-nerved and 3-keeled base ; lip 6 lin. Jong, pubescent on the sides, 
more or less glabrous on the back, 3-awned, lateral awns 3 lin. long, 
filiform, villous, intermixed with long purple to black hairs ; median 
awn 1 lin. long; fertile stamens 3; anthers linear, 2 lin. long ; 
apical glands } lin. long, lanceolate, subacute ; filaments } lin. long, 
dilated, concave; barren anther acute, eglandular ; ovary 1} lin. 
long, oblong, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 2 in. 
long, very gently curved, compressed below, terete and ventrally 
ved above, pubescent; stigma’ 3 lin. long, linear, acute, 
slightly kneed at the junction with the style. R. Br. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. x. 81; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv, 233; var. speciosa, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 442. P.: speciosa, var. foliis glapris, Andr. Lc. 
t. 277 ; var. rosea, Wendl. Coll. t. 73. 
