Protea, PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 583 
white villous with interspersed reddish hairs, middle awn somewhat 
shorter ; anticous segment with a finely filiform 1- (rarely 3-)nerved 
claw and a very narrow limb, otherwise in size and tomentum as 
the fused segments ; fertile stamens 3, the anticous more or less 
imperfect ; filament }—} lin. long ; anther 1} lin, long ; apical gland 
oblong, 4 lin. long; ovary obconical, 7} lin. long ; style laterally 
much compressed, at the base wider than the ovary, gradually 
tapering, not quite 2 in. long, incurved, glabrous ; stigma 1$ lin. 
long, capitate ; hypogynous scale obliquely ovate, } lin. long. 
Coast Recion : Uitenhage Div. ; Coxcombe Mountain, Dyke, 2676! & in Herb. 
Marloth, 4977! 
36. P. rupicola (Mund ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 236); 
branches glabrous; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse with a minute 
callous blunt point, cuneately attenuated at the base, 14-2 in. long, 
1 to almost } in. broad, thickly coriaceous, subglaucous, drying 
reddish-brown, glabrous, obscurely veined ; head subsessile, about 
2 in. long and wide; involucral bracts about 6-7-seriate, those of 
the first 5 or 6 series gradually increasing in size, those of the 
last exceeding the preceding by almost | in. ; outer ovate-oblong to 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, finely silky-pubescent, soon glabrescent ; 
inner oblong-linear to spathulate-linear, obtuse, fulvously villosulous, 
more or less glabrescent at length in the upper part, equalling the 
dull red flowers ; perianth-sheath somewhat over | in. long, slender, 
fulvously and spreadingly villous down to the middle of the widened 
5-nerved and 3-keeled base, then glabrous ; lip 4 lin. long, 3-toothed, 
membranous, fulvously villous along the sides and on the teeth, 
glabrous on the back ; lateral teeth 14 lin. long, intermediate } lin. 
long ; stamens all fertile ; filaments filiform, slightly wider above, 
1-1} lin. long ; anthers oblong-linear, 1}—1 3 lin. long ; apical glands 
1 lin. long, ovate, subacute; ovary covered with reddish-fulvous 
hairs ; style rather strongly curved, 1} in. long, laterally compressed, 
3 lin. broad below, gradually tapering upwards ; stigma 1} lin. long, 
obtuse, grooved, set off from the style by a slight and sudden bend. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; top of Great Winterhoek Mountain, Mund ; 
5000 ft., Bolus, 4194! 
37. P. glabra (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 42) ; branches glabrous ; leaves 
14-2} in. long, 6-10 lin. broad, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse or subacute, attenuated at the base, indistinctly nerved, 
glabrous ; head sessile, 14~2 in. long, about 13 in, in diam. ; 
involucral bracts 6-seriate, silky-pubescent, at length becoming 
glabrous, ciliate; outer ovate, obtuse ; inner oblong, becoming 
convex, shorter than the flowers ; perianth-sheath over | in. long, 
glabrous, with a few hairs towards the lip ; lip 6 lin. long, 3-toothed 
above, tomentose to villous excepting at the glabrous back, ciliate 
at the apex ; lateral teeth } lin. long, villous ; median tooth 3 lin. 
long ; stamens all fertile; filaments } lin, long; flattened ; anthers 
linear, 2} lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, con- 
