580 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Drége. Burchell, 4687! Stutterheim Div. ; 
Mountain slopes near Stutterheim, Flanagan, 1703! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; mountains near Barzeia, Baur, 624! 
30. P. curvata (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 131); a 
tree 15 ft. or more high; branches thick, rough, glabrous or 
minutely pubescent at the apex; leaves 4-7 in. long, 43-7 lin. 
broad, faleate, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, long attenuated at the 
base, indistinctly veined, with a distinct midrib, glabrous ; head 
sessile, 24 in. long, about 2 in. in diam.; young heads ovoid ; 
involucral bracts 8—9-seriate, tomentose on the lower half, at 
length glabrous, minutely ciliate; outer ovate, subacuminate, 
obtuse, inner oblong, not equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 
pubescent excepting the lower part of the 1} in.long dilated 
3-keeled and 7-nerved base; lip 11 lin. long, deeply 3-toothed, 
keeled, tomentose ; lateral teeth 1} lin. long, tomentose excepting 
at the glabrous tips; median tooth 1 lin. long, filiform ; stamens 
all fertile ; anthers linear, 5 lin. long; apical glands 2 lin. long, 
lanceolate, acute, swollen on the inner face; ovary 1 lin. long, 
covered with long yellow-brown hairs; style 2 in. long, flattened 
below, trigonous above, furrowed, glabrous; stigma 5 lin. long, 
obtuse, faintly bent at the junction with the style. 
KataHart Region : Transvaal ; hill-sides near Barberton, Galpin, 973 ! 
31. P. grandiflora (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 56); branches glabrous ; 
leaves very variable in shape and size, linear-oblong to obovate, 
3-7 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, obtuse, glaucous, distinctly veined, 
glabrous ; head subsessile, 2? in. long, about 3 in. in diam., globose 
when young, usually contracted into a short scaly stipes ; involucral 
bracts 13-seriate, finely silky-canescent, at length glabrescent, outer 
ovate, obtuse, inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, convex, not equal- 
ling the corolla; perianth-sheath 1 in. iong, pubescent towards the 
lip, otherwise glabrous, excepting on the ciliate margins of the 
dilated 7-nerved and 3-keeled base ; lip 8 lin. long, 3-toothed, 
whitish-tomentose excepting on the glabrescent back ; lateral teeth 
oblong, 1-1} lin. long; median tooth up to } lin. long ; stamens all 
fertile, subsessile ; anthers linear, 5 lin. long; apical gland } lin. 
long, lanceolate, swollen on the inner face; ovary covered with 
long fulvous or reddish hairs ; style 2 in. long, curved, narrowed 
upwards from a widened and compressed base, glabrous; stigma 
44 lin. long, hardly differentiated from the style, very slender, 
slightly thickened at the apex. Lam. Ill. i. 234; Thunb. Prodr. i. 
27 and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 137 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 530; Poir. Eneycl. 
Suppl. v. 640; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 85 incl. var. B ; Roem. 
& Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 348; Mant. 265 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
236 ; var. angustifolia, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 569; var. latifolia, Bot. 
Mag. t. 2447. P. marginata, Lam. Ill. i. 235 (according to Poiret, 
Le.). P. laurifolia, Buek ea Meisn. lc. Leucadendron cinaroides B, 
Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 1, i. 92. Erodendrum grandiflorum, Knight, Prot. 
