574 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
14 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, oblong, acute ; barren 
stamen acute, eglandular ; ovary 2 lin. long, obovate in outline, 
densely covered with numerous long golden hairs ; style 2 in. long, 
curved, somewhat flattened, keeled below on the convex side, usually 
more or less villosulous ; stigma 2 lin. long, curved and kneed 
at the junction with the style. P. lanuginosa, K. Schum. in Just, 
Jahresb. xxvi. i. 364. Scolymocephalus lanuginosus, O. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. Pl. iii. 279 (from descript.). 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Sim, 2457 ! 
KaLanart Recion: Orange River Colony ; Nelson’s Kop, Cooper, 952! Witzies 
Hoek, Bolus, 8242! Flanagan, 1849! Transvaal; Observatory Ridge, near 
Johannesburg, Burtt-Davy, 4004! Eersteling (Zoutpansberg), Miss Leendert, 
891! Houtbosch, Bolus, 10951! Barberton, Galpin, 974! Magalisberg, Zeyher, 
1457! Burke, 31(9%)! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1273! Shilovane, Junod, 5523! 
Roodepoort, Rand, 1315! Swaziland ; Embabaan, Burtt-Davy, 2789! and with- 
out precise locality, Burtt-Davy, 353 ! 
Eastern ReGion: Pondoland, Egossa, Sim, 2547! Port St. John, Galpin, 
3198! Griqualand East; Pot River Berg, Galpin, 6822! Natal ; Groenberg, 
Wood, 7918! near Van Reenens Pass, Krook, 1586! Wood, 5632! Slopes of the 
Drakensberg, near the Tugela Falls, Wood, 3514! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 1887 ! 
The hairiness of the style is variable; in Galpin 974 it is slightly pubescent, 
in Zeyher 1457 densely villous, and gradations between these two extremes 
are to be met with. 
21. P. longifolia (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 132); a bush 5-7 ft. high ; 
branches minutely tomentellous or glabrescent; leaves 23-7 in. 
long, 3-5 lin. broad, narrow strap-shaped, obtuse, long attenuated 
at the base, distinctly pinnately veined above, glabrous; head 
sessile, 4-6 in. long, about 4 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 9—10- 
seriate, glabrous ; outer ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, green, often 
with black tips; inner with a lanceolate limb, gradually passing 
into the claw, equalling the flowers or shorter ; perianth-sheath 
2 in. long, dilated and 3-keeled below, pubescent, becoming glabrous 
at the base; lip 2} in. long, villous at the base and on the sides, 
glabrous on the back, 3-awned ; lateral awns 1} in. long, linear, 
long-villous, lower hairs whitish, upper dark purple to black ; 
median awn 4 lin. long, filiform, black-ciliate at the apex ; fertile 
stamens 3; filaments } lin. long, dilated ; anthers linear, 34 lin. 
long ; apical glands 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute ; 
barren anther linear, acute, eglandular, with a filiform filament ; 
ovary 24 lin. long, obovate in outline, covered with long reddish- 
brown hairs; style 2 in. long, very slightly curved, terete, or 
somewhat compressed below, with a swelling (gland ?) at the base 
on the ventral side, faintly grooved on the convex side, pubescent ; 
stigma 2}-3 lin. long, obtuse, conspicuously kneed and curved at 
the junction with the style. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 83, 
partly ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii, 347, partly ; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 238, partly. P. coronata, Lam. Til. i. 236, partly. 
P. dodoneifolia, Buek ex Meisn. Lc, 239 (2). P. vidua, Gaul. Recens. 
39. Erodendrum longipenne, Knight, Prot. 35. Lepidocarpodendron 
foliis angustis, ete., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 186, ¢. 186. 
