570 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
The texture of the leaves of var. auriculata differs considerably from that of 
typical P. latifolia which moreover is easily distinguished from the type by the 
considerable dilatation of the style base. Lrodendrum coronarium, Knight, Prot. 
41, collected by Masson near Great Hout Hoek, and introduced into Kew in 1790, 
must come very near this species. 
13. P. compacta (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 76); branches 
finely tomentellous, at length glabrous; leaves 34-4} in. long, 
3-1} in. broad, strongly imbricate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse with a callous point, subcordate or rounded 
or slightly narrowed at the base, coriaceous, prominently veined, 
glabrous with the margins shortly villous or at length glabrous ; 
head sessile, 4 in. long, about 2} in. in diam.; involucral bracts 
8-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, villous-pubescent or more or less 
glabrescent, with a dense fringe of woolly cilia ; inner more or 
less flesh-colour to carmine with an oblong limb and linear claw, 
finely villous-tomentose, tips densely ciliate, exceeding the flowers ; 
perianth-sheath 2 in. long, dilated, 5-nerved and 3-keeled below, 
finely tomentose, glabrous at the base ; lip over 1 in. long, 3-awned ; 
lateral awns 3-4} lin. long, filiform, flexuous, tawny to purplish- 
tomentose ; median awn 1 lin. long, filiform; fertile stamens 3, 
subsessile ; filaments 3 lin. long, flattened ; anthers linear, 4} lin. 
long; apical gland almost 1 lin. long, lanceolate-oblong ; barren 
stamen 44 lin. long, linear, eglandular ; ovary 1 lin. long, oblong, 
densely covered with long light-golden hairs; style 2 in. long, 
finely grooved on the convex side, glabrous ; stigma 2} lin. long, 
linear, obtuse, strongly kneed and bent at the junction with the 
style. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 238. P. formosa, R. Br. im 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 79. P.coronata, Andr. Rep. t. 469, not of Lam. 
P. spectabilis, Willd. ex Meisn. lc. Erodendrum formosum, Salisb. 
Parad. t.76. Leucospermum (errore pro Erodendro) formosum, Knight 
ex Loud. Encyel. i, 82. 
Coast Recion:; Cape Div.; Kraaifontein, Diimmer, 1531! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland, Niven! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Masson ! Zeyher, 3660! 
Klein River, Krauss, 1073! Hermanus, Galpin, 4454! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elands 
Kloof, Ludwig! near Elim, Zeyher, 1820! Bolus, 8592 ; Schlechter, 7673! Koude 
River, Schlechter, 10457 | Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 3656 ! 
14. P. magnifica (Link, Enum. alt. i. 113); a shrub with stout 
villous stems ; leaves broad- to narrow-oblong or lanceolate, shortly 
acute, somewhat narrowed at the base or subcordate, undulate, the 
largest up to 4 in. long and 2 in. wide, coriaceous, subglaucous, 
hairy along the thickened margins, distinctly veined; heads sessile, 
turbinate-obovoid, 6 in. long, 5 in. wide; involucral bracts 7-8- 
seriate, creamy-silky-pubescent to tomentose, the lower ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, densely white ciliate, the inner much elonga 
linear-lanceolate, acute, with a dense fringe of white cilia, equalling 
or slightly exceeding the creamy flowers; perianth-sheath 24 in. 
long, hairy ; lip 7-8 lin. long, hairy, awned, lateral awns 9 lin. long, 
long-hairy ; stamens all fertile ; anthers yellow, 4 lin. long; ap! 
gland red, 1 lin. long; ovary villous ; style rather stout, whitish ; 
