572 PROTEACE& (Phillips & Stapf). [ Protea. 
awn 14 lin, long, filiform ; filaments } lin. long, swollen ; anthers 
linear, 2 lin. long ; apical glands ? lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; ovary 
covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 2 in. long, flattened, 
strongly keeled above the ovary, pubescent below and along the keel 
up to the middle, glabrous upwards ; stigma 2} lin. long, furrowed, 
obtuse, tapering into the style. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 235. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div. ; Onrust River, Zeyher, 3661! Bredasdorp Div. ; 
between Cape Agulhas and Pot Berg, Drége ! 
Very closely allied to P. calocephala, Meisn., but differing in having distinctly 
veined leaves, the inner involucral bracts only just exceeding the flowers, besides. 
small differences in the floral characters. 
17. P. triandra (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 110); a shrub 
134-2 ft. high ; branches tomentellous ; leaves 23-44 in. long, 
4-1} in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, callously mucronate, 
pinnately veined, with a prominent midrib, glabrous excepting on 
the thickened woolly-ciliate margins ; head sessile, 4-44 in. long, 
3-3} in. in diam. ; receptacle siightly convex ; pale ovate, acute ; 
involucral bracts 12—14-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, glabrous or 
pubescent below, ciliate, with a small beard of cilia at the apex ; 
inner oblong-linear, widening above, tomentose, ciliate, rose- 
coloured, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 1} in. long, 
dilated, 3-keeled and 5-nerved below, shortly tomentose, becoming 
glabrous at the base; lip 12 lin. long, 3-awned, shortly tomentose ; 
lateral awns 4-5 lin. long, terete; median awn 2% lin. long; 
fertile stamens 3; filaments 3 lin. long, swollen, channelled ; 
anthers linear, 4 lin. long; apical glands % lin. long, lanceolate, 
obtuse; ovary 1 lin. long, pubescent, covered with long golden 
hairs ; style 2 in. long, furrowed above, compressed below, pubescent 
at the very base, otherwise glabrous ; stigma 5 lin. long, trigonous, 
with a blunt ovate swelling at the apex, kneed and strongly 
curved at the junction with the style. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Diy. ; Koude River, Schlechter, 9621 ! 
18. P. Susanne (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 229) ; branches 
tomentellous ; leaves 14-5 in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, with a distinct 
mid-rib and more prominent venation on the under surface, 
pubescent or tomentose when young, becoming glabrous with age ; 
head subsessile, 3? in. long, about 3 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
9-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, pubescent to tomentose, at length 
glabrescent ; inner oblong, concave, tomentose below, subequalling 
the flowers ; perianth-sheath 2-2} in. long, dilated, 3-keeled and 
7-nerved below, densely tomentose above the glabrous base, 9 lin. 
long, 3-awned above, tomentose ; lateral awns 24—3 lin. long, terete, 
purple-villous ; median awn 2 lin. long, filiform ; fertile stamens 3; 
filaments } lin. long, dilated, concave ; anthers linear, 24 lin. long; 
apical glands # lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse ; barren stamen linear, 
