Protea. | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 579 
long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, keeled on the inner face; style 24 
in. long, slightly curved, tapering above, faintly keeled on one side, 
glabrous ; stigma 4} lin. long, filiform, slightly thickened at the 
apex, rather abruptly passing into the much stouter style. P. 
ochroleuca, Smith, Exot. Bot. ii. 43, t. 81. P. penicillata, E. Meyer 
in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 82, 124; 213, partly ; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr, xiv. 235, partly. P. latericolor, Meisn. l.c. 248, in error. 
Erodendrum bombycinum, Knight, Prot. 38; Salisb. ex Roem. & 
Schult, Syst. Veg. iii. Mant. 263. 
Var. B, angusta (E. P. Phillips) ; leaves narrowing at the base ; stigmas not 
so distinctly clavate as in the type ; teeth of lip subequal, } lin. long. 
Var. ¥, orientalis (E. P. Phillips) ; differing from the type in that the protruding 
styles in old heads form a brush-like tuft. P. orientalis, Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 296,t. 128, 
Coast REGion ; Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Dréye! Caledon Div. ; near 
the River Zondereinde, Niven! George Div. ; Kaymans Gat, Dréye! Outeniqua 
woods, Arauss! Knysna Div.; Knysna, Puppe! Mrs, Newdigate! Uitenhage 
Div. ; Winterhoek Mountains, Arauss! Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, Baur, 
1072! Cathcart Div.; Toise River Railway Station, Flanagan, 1703! Stutter- 
heim Div. ; summit of Dohne Peak, (Galpin, 2426! Var. y: King Williamstown 
Div. ; Perie, Sim, 1478! 
Centrat Recon: Var. 8: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1481! 
29. P. Mundii (Klotzsch in Otto & Dietr. Gartenzeit., 1838, 
113); branches tomentellous to tomentose above ; leaves 14—4} in. 
long, 6-16 lin. broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, subobtuse, 
narrowing at the base, distinctly veined, glabrous or the youngest 
leaves sometimes loosely pilose ; head sessile, 23-83 in. long, about 
2 in. in diam. ; involueral bracts 11—12-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, 
silky on the back, green, ciliate ; inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, 
whitish pubescent to tomentose, fringed with white cilia, shorter 
than the styles; perianth-sheath 1} in. long, slender and thin 
above the middle, gradually dilated and 5-nerved below, not 
keeled, the upper half at length coiled up, loosely hairy; lip 7 lin. 
long, tridentate, glabrous, with a dense tuft of hairs at the apex ; 
lateral teeth 1 lin. long; median tooth } lin, long; stamens all 
fertile; filaments } lin. long, channelled down the middle ; anthers 
linear, 3 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, subacuminate, 
subacute, keeled on the inner face ; ovary covered with a tuft of 
Jong brown hairs ; style 2 in. long, almost straight, keeled on one 
side, compressed above the ovary, then more or less terete, glabrous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, furrowed, subcapitate at the apex, abruptly and 
obliquely passing into the much stouter style, P. penicillata, E. 
Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pl. Documente, 118, 126 ; 213, partly ; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 235, partly. P. longiflora, Lam., var. Mundii, Link, 
Klotzsch & Otto, Ic. Pl. Rar. i. 55, t. 22; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap- 
und Natall, 140 and in Flora, 1845, 76. P. ovalis, Buck, ea. Meisn. le. 
Coast Recon: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége ! Kynsna Div. ; between 
Plettenbergs Bay and Knysna, Burchell, 5351! Plettenbergs Bay, Pappe! 
Paarde Berg, Burchell, 5194! Uniondale Div. ; Outeniqua Mountains, near 
Avontuur, “Bilas, 2452! Humansdorp Div. ; near the Kromme River, Dréyc ! 
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