584 PROTEACE” (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea, 
spicuously swollen on the inner face; ovary } lin. long, oblong, 
covered with a tuft of light fulvous hairs; style 1} in. long, more 
or less grooved, glabrous; stigma 2} lin. long, linear, truncate, 
slightly curved at the junction with the style. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 138 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 247. P. buekiana, Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 236. P. pyrifolia, Buek ex Meisn. le. P. 
grandiflora, B angustifolia, Drége ex Meisn. lc. P. Banksii, Klotzsch 
ex Meisn. lc. Leucadendron Thunbergii, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. ii. 75. 
SourH Arnica : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaton : Clanwilliam Div. ; Lange Kloof, Schlechter, 8391! between 
Clanwilliam and Bosch Kloof, Drége ! 
CentraL Recton: Calvinia Div. ; between Grasberg River and Watervals 
River, Drége ! 
38. P. recondita (Buek ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 237); 
branches glabrous, glaucous ; leaves 3-4} in. long, 1-2 in. broad at 
the widest part, 2 lin. wide at the base, obovate, cuneate, obtuse, 
distinctly veined, glabrous, glaucous; head sessile, 14-23 in. long, 
about 2 in. in diam., globose ; involucral bracts 7—8-seriate, glabrous ; 
outer ovate, subacuminate, subobtuse ; inner oblong, slightly convex, 
equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 12 lin. long, glabrous excepting 
for a few reddish setule near the lip, dilated, 5-nerved and 3-keeled 
below ; lip 3 lin. long, glabrous or spatingly setulose ; stamens all 
fertile ; filaments y lin. long and broad, thin ; anthers linear-elliptic, 
2 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, subobtuse ; ovary 4 lin. 
long, oblanceolate in outline, swollen above, covered with long 
reddish-brown hairs ; style over 1 in. long, faleate from a short, 
almost straight base, 1 lin. wide, tapering upwards, compressed, 
glabrous ; stigma 14-2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, grooved, almost 
imperceptibly passing into the style. 
PTR Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; Cedarberg Range, at Ezelabank, Drége, 
39. P. convexa (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 235); a shrub 
up to 10 ft. high ; leaves 5-9 in. long, 2-34 in. broad at the widest 
part, obovate-oblong, obtuse, bluntly-mucronate, prominently veined, 
glaucous, glabrous ; head sessile, 2 in. long, about 3 in. in diam. ; 
receptacle 9 lin, high, hemispherical ; paleze ovate, subacute ; 
involucral bracts 10—12-seriate ; outer elliptic-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, 
ciliolate ; inner spathulate-oblong or spathulate linear, glabrous or 
minutely pubescent on the back ; perianth-sheath 10 lin. long, 
dilated, 3-keeled and usually 9- (sometimes 7-)nerved below, whitish- 
pubescent above, glabrous below excepting on the ciliate margins ; 
lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, sides pubescent, back glabrescent, top 
villous, the villi concealing the subequal teeth, which are } lin. long ; 
stamens all fertile ; anthers subsessile, 2 lin. long ; apical glands 
+ lin. long, ovate, subobtuse ; ovary 5 lin. long, linear-oblong, 
covered with long golden-yellow hairs ; style 9 lin, long, falcate, 
