Protea.) PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 577 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div. ; Cooper, 1592! Cape Div. ; various localities 
around Cape Town, Z'hunberg ! Andersson ! Wright! Wolley-Dod, 1232! Burchell, 
810! Bolus, 3738! 3956! Scholl, 165! 790! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr,-Afr. 
783 ! Ecklon, 654! Drége! Krauss | ; ; Zeyher, 3662! Phillips, 269! Pappe, 16! ; 
Stellenbosch Div.; Between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8375 | 
Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3662! Albany Div. ; Grahams- 
town, Zeyher, 3663! Coldstream, Misses Daly d& Sole, 249! Bothas Berg, 
MacOwan, 771! Var. B: Paarl Div. ; ;. mountains between Wellington and Bains 
Kloof, ex Phillips. 
We have seen no Herbarium specimens of the variety, but Mr. Phillips saw 
living plants growing on the mountain-sides along the road leading from 
Wellington to Bains Kloof. 
P., mellifera, Thunb., is named in the Linnean Herbarium P. repens and was 
published as such by Linneus in his Mantissa, p. 189. Eighteen years pre- 
viously he had published a description of this plant under the name of Leucadendron 
repens (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 91); his var. B being P. repens, Thunb. The specific 
name repens is so inapplicable to this plant, while Thunberg’s name is so suitable 
and has been in such general use that we have retained it. 
26. P. longiflora (Lam. Ill. i. 234); a bush 8-10 ft. high; 
branches tomentose, at length glabrous; leaves 11-3} in. long, 
4—16 lin. broad, elliptic, more or less oblong, rather harrow, obtuse 
or subacute, rounded or subcordate at the base, reticulately veined, 
the younger pilose, at length glabrous, ciliate ; head sessile, 4 in. 
long, 2-24 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 11-seriate ; outer ovate, 
subacuminate, obtuse or subacute, minutely whitish silky-pubescent, 
ciliate ; inner elongated-oblong, yellowish-white silky-pubescent, 
with a fringe of long cilia equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 
24 in. long, slender and thin above the middle, dilated and 3-keeled 
below, shortly villous, the upper slender half spirally coiled in old 
flowers ; lip 8-10 lin. long, 3-toothed, sparingly hairy on the sides, 
glabrous on the back or nearly all over ; lateral teeth up to 2 lin. 
long, hirsute or villous ; stamens all fertile, subsessile ; anthers 
6 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, lanceolate, swollen on the inner 
face ; ovary 1} lin. long, ovoid, densely covered with long reddish- 
brown hairs ; style 3 in. long, slender, straight, subterete, grooved 
on one side, finely glabrous; stigma 6-8 lin. long, filiform, 
with slightly thickened tips, gradually tapering into the style. 
Poir. Encycl. v. 640; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 76; Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 343; Bot. Mag. t. 2720; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 234; var. latifolia, Klotzsch in Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap- 
und Natal. 140; Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 76. P. ovata, Thunb. in 
Mém. Acad. Pétersb. 1813-14, 548, t. 17, and in Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
139 ; Meisn. lc. 247. P. obliqua, Hort. Bollwill, 1835, ex Meisn. 
lc. ; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. xi. t. 489. Leucospernum? ovatum, 
Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. Mant. 266. Leucadendron aureum, 
Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 4. Erodendrum zmulum, Knight, Prot. 38. 
Conocarpodendron folis subrotundo, ete., Boerh, Ind: Pl. Hort. Lugd. 
Bat. ii. 199, t. 199. 
Var. B, ovalis (E. P. Phillips); leaves 24 in. long, 14 in. broad, elliptic: 
cordate, younger ciliate and pubescent at the base. 
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