Protea. | PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 569 
ovate-lanceolate, with a swelling on the inner face ; filaments almost 
i lin. long, widened upwards; ovary small, densely covered with 
long reddish-brown hairs; style 14 in. long, curved, tapering 
upwards, laterally compressed, somewhat swollen above the ovary, 
terete upwards, red, pubescent ; stigma 3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, 
conspicuously kneed at the junction with the style. Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 347; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 232. P. 
spectosa, var. patens, Andr. Bot: Rep. t. 543. Erodendrum holoseri- 
ceum, Knight, Prot. 40. 
Coast Recion: Div.? Wilde River, Niven ! 
12. P. latifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 75); a bush 
5-8 ft. high ; branches more or less tomentose, at length glabrous ; 
leaves 21—4 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, very crowded, oblong-elliptic 
to elliptic, obtuse, cordate at the base, subglaucous, woolly-ciliate 
when young, at length glabrous, prominently veined ; head sessile, 
43 in. long, about 2? in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 9—12-seriate ; 
outer ovate, obtuse, adpressedly pubescent to tomentose, ciliate ; 
inner flesh-colour to carmine, with an oblong limb and a linear 
claw, densely pubescent and fringed above with white cilia, ex- 
ceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 21 in. long, dilated, 5—7-nerved 
and 3-keeled below, densely pubescent excepting at the glabrous 
base ; lip 1 in. long, villous, 3-awned ; lateral awns 10 lin. long, 
terete, tomentose, indumentum intermixed with long more or less 
dark-purple hairs, tips penicillate ; median awn 5 lin. long, filiform ; 
fertile stamens 3; filaments } lin. long, dilated ; anthers linear, 
24 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate ; 
barren stamen eglandular ; ovary covered with numerous long 
reddish hairs ; style 2} in. long, flattened, finely pubescent almost 
all along; stigma 3 lin. long, obovoid, covered with numerous 
long reddish hairs. Bot. Mag. t. 1717 ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 
iii. 342 ;"Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 230. P. radiata, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 646; Bonpl. Malm. 144, t. 59; Geel, Sert. Bot.; Reichenb. 
Fl. Exot. iv. 35, t. 273. Erodendrum eximium, Knight, Prot. 41. 
P. spectabilis, Lichtenst. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 461; Meisn, Le. 
231. Mimetes spectabilis, Roem. & Schult. iii. Mant. 268; Steud. 
Nomenel. ed. ii. 147. 
Var. 8, auriculata (Phillips) ; leaves 3-34 in. long, 1-1? in. broad, oblong- 
elliptic, obtuse, distinctly veined; style strongly compressed and very much 
dilated below. P. auriculata, Tausch in Flora, 1842, i. 285. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
Coast Rearon: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Bowie! Zwart Berg, Niven! 
Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4453! Bolus, 11367! Phillips, 513! 
Humansdorp Div. ; Kromme River, Drége. Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, 
Drége, 3033! Zeyher, 384! 3656! MacOwan! Var. 8: specimen cultivated in 
the gardens of Prince Salm Dyck in 1838 ! 
The involucral bracts are a pale pink and the awns of the lip covered with 
purple hairs. Andrews, however, also figures a perfectly n variety, This 
species approaches P. compacta, R. Br., but can be readily distinguished from it 
by the pubescent style. 
