576 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). [ Protea. 
head sessile, almost 4 in. by 3 in., obovoid ; involucral bracts about 
7-seriate ; outer broad lanceolate; inner all acute, glabrous, green 
_with reddish tips and edges, linear, exceeding the flowers ; perianth- 
sheath 2 in. long, hairy ; lip 1} in. long, produced into 2 long and 
1 short awn ; awns densely purple-ciliate ; style narrowing above, 
21 in. long, almost straight ; stigma kneed and curved at the 
junction with the style. P. longifolia, var. ferruginoso-purpurea, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 133. P. longifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
x. 83, partly ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 238, partly. Erodendrum 
liguleefolium, Knight, Prot. 36. 
Sourn Arrica: Known only from the figure in Andrews’ Botanists’ Repository, 
which was prepared from a specimen in Hibbert’s Collection received from the 
Imperial Garden at Schoenbrunn and probably introduced there by Scholl. 
25. P. mellifera (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 34, 52) ; a large bush, 6-8 ft. 
high ; branches glabrous; leaves 21-34 in. long, 2-4 lin. broad, 
linear-oblanceolate or oblong, acute, attenuated at the base, with a 
distinct midrib, glabrous; head shortly stipitate, 5 in. long, about 
24 in. in diam., stipes scaly ; receptacle convex ; pale ovate, acute ; 
involucral bracts 14-18-seriate, very viscid, those of the stipes 
silky pubescent, the others glabrous, dark red to whitish-green 
with pinkish tips and margins, but usually rosy pink ; outer ovate, 
subacuminate, subacute, ciliate ; inner linear-oblong to broad-linear, 
subacuminate or acute, exceeding the whitish flowers ; perianth- 
sheath 12 in. long, membranous, dilated, keeled and 7-nerved 
below, glabrous, excepting at the ciliate base; lip 14 in. long, 
3-awned, glabrous; lateral awns 3} lin. long, filiform, with a tuft 
of white hairs at their apices; median awn similar, 2} lin. long ; 
stamens all fertile [sometimes the lower half of the anticous stamen 
is devoid of pollen] ; filaments 1 lin. long, dilated; anthers linear, 
1 in. long; apical glands 1 lin. long, linear ; ovary 2 lin. long, 
obovate-oblong in outline, covered with long golden hairs; style 
2-34 in. long, tapering above, furrowed, compressed, slightly swollen 
and deeply furrowed above the ovary, glabrous ; stigma 1 in. long, 
furrowed. Lam. Ill. i. 236; Bot. Mag. t. 346; Poir. Encycl. v. 646 ; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 522; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 84; Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iti. 348; Wendl. Hort. Herrenhaus. iii. 3, t. 13 ; 
Roupell, Cap. Flow. t. 7; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 239. P. repens, 
Linn. Mant. alt. 189, not of Thunb. Leucadendron repens, a, Linn. 
Spec. Pl. ed. i. 91; Syst. Nat. ed. xii. ii. 110; Berg. in Vet. Acad. 
Handl. Stockh. 1766, 323. Erodendrum mellifluum, Knight, Prot. 34. 
Scolymocephalus mellifer, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 280. Lepi- 
docarpodendron, foliis angustis, brevioribus, etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. 
Ludg. Bat. ii. 187, t. 187. Scolymocephalus seu Lepidocarpodendron 
folit saligno B, Weinm. Phyt.iv. 289, t.896. Conifera africana, foliis 
angustis, etc., Sloane in Philos. Trans. xvii. 66, with plate, ex R. Br. lc. 
Var. 8, albiflora (Andr, Bot. Rep. t. 582); as in the type, but the involucral 
bracts are pure white, 
Sours Arrica : without locality, Drége! Sieber, 2! Forster! Ludwig! Ecklon, 
316! Pappe! Boos! Scholl! Wawra, 107! 
