582 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
anthers linear, 5 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, elliptic ; ovary 
1} lin. long, obovate, covered by a dense tuft of long reddish-brown 
hairs ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, ovate, obtuse; style 1} in. 
long, more or less curved and faintly grooved, glabrous ; stigma 
4-5 lin, long, filiform, obtuse, slightly bent at the junction with the 
style. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 85; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 237 ; Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 232; Baker d& C. H. Wright in 
Dyer, Flor. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 199. P. Gaguedi, Gmel. Syst. 225. 
Guaguedi (native name), Bruce, Abyss. v. 52, with a plate. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; various localities, Mrs. Saunders, 81! Burtt- 
Davy, 144! 3541; 5647! Miss Pegler, 941! Pole Evans, 2963! 
_ Also in Tropical Africa. 
34. P. hirta (Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 76, and in Beitr. FI. 
Cap- und Natall. 140); branches hirsute; leaves 1-4 in. long, 
}-1} in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the 
base, with subprominent venation, loosely villous to glabrescent ; 
head 25 in. long, about 24 in. in diam., terminal, sometimes 
lateral, turbinate at the base and sometimes shortly constricted 
into a scaly stipe; involucral bracts 8-seriate, silky-tomentose, 
outer ovate, obtuse or subacute; inner oblong, exceeding 
the flowers; perianth-sheath over 1 lin. long, slightly expanded 
below, densely whitish-villous excepting at the glabrous base ; lip 
7 lin. long, whitish-villous, 3-toothed ; lateral teeth 1 lin. long, 
intermediate much shorter ; stamens all fertile, subsessile ; filaments 
} lin. long, flattened ; anthers linear, 2-3 lin. long ; apical glands 
} lin. long, subsessile, linear, swollen on the inner face; ovary 
1 lin. long, globose, covered with a tuft of long whitish hairs ; style 
1} in. long more or less curved, slender, glabrous ; stigma 3 lin. 
long, filiform, obtuse, very slightly bent at the junction with;the style. 
KaLanart ReEcIon : Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, Burke, 318 ! Zeyher, 1455! 
around Pretoria, Jause, 80! Crawley, 5069! Reck, 3796! 4311! Burtt-Davy, 
9101! Ridges near Johannesburg, Mrs. De Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 1477! Burtt- 
Davy, 4002! by the Koster River, Rustenburg, Buritt-Davy, 156! 
Eastern Reeton: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 577! near Durban, Wood, 8044! near 
the Umlaas River, Arauss, 202, and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1516 ! Mrs. 
AK. Saunders, 
35. P. Dykei (Phillips); branches glabrous, with almost black 
bark ; leaves narrowly obovate-oblanceolate, obtuse, 1-1} in. long, 
5-6 lin. broad, glabrous, dull, coriaceous, faintly veined ; heads 
sessile, somewhat over 2 in. long and wide; receptacle conical ; 
involucral bracts about 8-seriate, white-silky-pubescent and ciliate ; 
outer ovate, obtuse, inner narrowly oblong, obtuse, much shorter 
than the flowers ; perianth-sheath 14-1} in. long, slender, 7-nerved, 
widened and 3-keeled at the base for about } in., white-pubescent 
outside and along the margins within all along to about 3 lin. from 
the base ; lip 443 lin. long, white-pubescent on the back, shortly 
villous on the sides, 3-awned, lateral awns stout, about 3 lin. long, 
