Protea.] PROTEACESE (Phillips & Stapf). 575 
Var. 8, minor (E. P. Phillips); leaves 3-44 in. long, 14-34 lin. wide; head 
sessile 34 in. long, about 24 in. in diameter, 
Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 7796 ! Hottentots 
Holland Kloof, Zudwig! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3662! 
Drége! MacOwan, 2637! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 902! Niven, 5! Zwart 
Berg, Pappe, 15! Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7988! Var. 8: Bredasdorp 
Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 7860! 
Andrews described this as ‘‘P. longifolia nigra,” his idea being that it was one of 
three varieties which had to be separated from P. speciosa and made to represent 
a distinct species P. longifolia, 
In the Stockholm Herbarium there are fragments of the type of P. dodonxifolia, 
Buek, which may not belong here. The only leaf present is 8 lin. wide and has 
not dried black as is usual in P. longifolia. The specimen was collected by Drége 
at Hooge Kraal near the Zoetemelks river, Riversdale Division. 
22. P. ignota (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 229); branches 
glabrous ; leaves 6 in. or more long, 3-4 lin. wide, narrow strap- 
shaped, subacute, long attenuated at the base; head sessile, tur- 
binate-obovoid, 4 in. long; involucral bracts 7-seriate; outer ovate, 
obtuse, with a red band and black tips; inner linear or linear- 
oblong, greenish with rose tips, equalling the flowers; perianth- 
sheath loosely villosulous; lip 3-awned; awns densely villous 
with long purple hairs; style 2 in. long, narrowing above, com- 
pressed, white-villous ; stigma subulate, acute, kneed and curved 
at the junction with the style. P. longifolia, Ker-Gawl. in Bot. 
Reg. t. 47; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 238, partly. 
Souta Arrica: Known only from the figure in the Botanical Register ; allied 
to P. ligulefolia, Sweet. It was introduced by Masson. 
23. P. umbonalis (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 346); stem 6-10 ft. 
high ; branches glabrous ; leaves 5—7 in. long, narrow strap-shaped, 
subacute, attenuated at the base, the younger pubescent; head 
sessile, turbinate, over 4 in. long; involucral bracts 10-seriate, 
glabrous ; outer ovate, acute; inner linear-oblong, exceeding the 
flowers ; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, hairy; lip 1} in. long, with 
2 long and | short awn; awns densely ciliate ; style 2} in. long, 
almost straight ; stigma kneed and curved at the junction with the 
style. P. longifolia, var. cono turbinato, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 144. 
P. longifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 83, partly ; Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr. xiv. 238, partly. Erodendrum umbonale, Knight, Prot. 
35 ; Salisb. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 589. 
Sour Arrica : Known only from the figure in Andrews’ Botanists’ Repository, 
which was prepared from a specimen, received from Schoenbrum. 
It is somewhat doubtful whether Knight’s Zrodendron wmbonale is actually the 
plant figured in Andrews’ Repository, t. 144. He describes it as having pale green 
leaves with red nerves and margins, whereas Andrews’ plant is represented as 
having uniformly dark green leaves. Knight's plant came from Hottentots 
Holland. ‘ 
24. P. ligulefolia (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 346); leaves 5-7 in. 
long, narrow strap-shaped, subacute, long-attenuated at the base ; 
