578 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). [ Protea. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Dréye, 3967! Sparrman! Scholl, 723 ! 
Coast Reeion: Swellendam Diy. ; foot of the Langeberg Range, near Swellen- 
dam, Burchell, 7432! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 782 | MacOwan, 
2827! Fry in Herb. Galpin, 4987! Riversdale Div. ; summit of Kampsche Berg, 
Burchell, 7109! George Div. ; Cradock Pass, Pappe! Montagu Pass, Bolus, 8688 ! 
Postberg and Zwart River, near George, Bowie! near George, Arauss, 1075! 
Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Niven, 35! Dréye, 2007! Uitenhage Div. ; 
Winterhoek Mountains, Krauss! Var. 8: cultivated specimen from Glasgow 
Botanic Garden ! 
P. calycina, Schnevogt, Ic. Pl. Rar. t. 48, representing a plant, grown in the 
Utrecht Gardens in 1794, is very probably referable to this species although the 
leaves are shown as shortly petioled and acute. 
27. P. subvestita (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 132); a 
shrub 8 ft. high; branches tomentose, at length glabrous ; leaves 
sessile, 1}-34 in. long, 6-12 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed at the base, distinctly veined beneath, younger densely 
woolly, becoming glabrous with age; head sessile, 2 in. long, 
about 1? in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 6—8-seriate ; outer ovate, 
acute, silky-pubescent, ciliate ; inner oblong, silky-pubescent, densely 
fringed with hairs round the upper margin, exceeding the perianths, 
but not the styles; perianth-sheath 14 in. long, very slender and 
thin above, gradually dilated, 5-nerved and 3-keeled below, the 
slender upper half at length spirally coiled up, rufo-hirsute except at 
the base; lip about 5 lin. long, glabrous, 3-toothed ; lateral teeth 
} lin. long, white woolly ; stamens all fertile, subsessile ; anthers 
linear, 2} lin. long ; apical glands, } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, swollen 
on the inner face; ovary 1} lin. long, oblong, covered with long 
reddish hairs ; style 1} in. long, straight, tapering above, compressed 
below, subterete above, grooved on one side, glabrous ; stigma 25 in. 
long, very slender, obtuse, rather abruptly passing into the style. 
Eastern Recion: Pondoland; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! Griqualand East ; 
Tent Kop, Galpin, 6824! Insizwa Range, Krook, 1575! Natal; hill near Van 
Reenen, Wood, 5631! Div. ? summit of Omaqua Mountain, Thode, 47! 
Near B. hirta, Klotzsch, but differing in the shape of the outer involucral bracts. 
28. P. lacticolor (Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 27); a small tree 
10 ft. high; branches tomentellous, at length glabrous; leaves 
3-34 in. long, 7-12 ‘in. broad, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, sub- 
acute, obtuse at the base, minutely punctate, distinctly veined, 
tomentose at the base and midrib or glabrous ; head sessile, 
2-2] in, long, about 2-24 in, in diam. ; involucral bracts 6-seriate, 
silky-pubescent, yellowish-white ; outer ovate, ciliate ; inner oblong 
or spathulate-oblong, with a long silky fringe at the apex, shorter 
than the styles ; perianth-sheath very slender and thin, 1} in. long, 
dilated, 3-keeled and faintly 5-nerved below, spirally twisted in old 
flowers, rufo-pilose ; lip 7 lin. long, 3-toothed, otherwise glabrous ; 
sparingly hairy along the edges ; lateral teeth hirsute, }-1 lin. long ; 
median tooth } lin. long; stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, 
swollen, channelled ; anthers linear, 44 lin. long, apical glands } lin. 
