Protea, | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 571 
stigma suddenly geniculate at the base. P. speciosa, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 438, not of Linn. Erodendrum magnificum, Knight, Prot. 37. 
SoutH Arrica: Figured from a specimen in Hibbert’s collection. 
Andrews’ statement that this is identical with a plant collected by Roxburgh in 
the Hottentot Mountains and named P. speciosa in the Lambert Herbarium is 
- ineorrect. Roxburgh’s plant is typical P. speciosa, Linn. 
15. P. macrophylla (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 78); a small 
tree 5-10 ft. high; branches minutely greyish-tomentellous above, 
at length glabrous; leaves 33-9 in. long, $-1} in. broad, linear- 
oblong or oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the base, finely villosulous 
or woolly, particularly towards the base, at length glabrous, 
reticulately veined, with thickened margins ; head sessile, 4-5} in. 
long, about 34 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 7-10-seriate, whitish 
or tawny tomentose to tomentellous ; outer ovate, obtuse ; inner 
with an oblong limb passing into a long linear claw, minutely 
ciliate round the apex, mostly exceeding or at least equalling 
the flowers; perianth-sheath 24-24 in. long, dilated, 5—7-nerved 
and 3-keeled below, densely pubescent excepting at the glabrous 
base; lip 14 in. long, 3-awned, flexuous, villous or tomentose ; 
lateral awns 8-9 lin. long, densely villous ; median awn 4 lin. long, 
filiform ; fertile stamens 3; anthers linear, 2-2} lin. long; apical 
glands } lin. long, ovate, acuminate, acute; filaments } lin. long, 
flattened concave ; barren stamen linear, acute, eglandular ; ovary 
1 lin. long, obovate, densely covered with long brown hairs ; style 
2 in. long, laterally compressed, with a short ventral groove (gland ?) 
above the ovary, scantily pubescent below the middle; stigma 
24-3 lin. long, slender, linear, obtuse, slightly kneed and bent at the 
junction with the style. Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 344 ; Meisn. 
in DO. Prodr. xiv. 234, incl. vars. dregeana and zeyheriana. 
Erodendrum lorifolium, Knight, Prot. 41. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Olifants River, near Brackfontein, Zeyher? 
Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Dréye! Ladismith Div. ; Zwartberg Range, near 
Ladismith, Marloth, 3203! Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Niven, 37! 
Uitenhage Div.; ‘‘De Hoek,” Geard in Herb. Galpin, 2981! Albany Div. ; 
Grahamstown, Misses Daly & Sole, 455! 
CrentraL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 848! 
- 16. P. obtusifolia (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 123, 213, 
name only); branches tomentose above ; leaves 3}—4$ in. long, 1-1} 
in. broad, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, emarginate, attenuate at the ba 
into a petiole, distinctly veined, glabrous and vernicose, ciliate below; 
head sessile, 33 in. long, about 2} in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
13-seriate; outer ovate, acuminate, obtuse, pubescent, at length 
glabrous, ciliate ; inner oblong or spathulate-linear, glabrous, ciliate, 
slightly exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, dilated, 
3-keeled and 7-nerved below, shortly tomentose or villosulous ; lip 
9-10 lin. long, 3-awned, villosulous ; lateral awns 3-4} lin. long, 
terete, villous, tomentose with longer hairs intermixed ; median 
