Protea. | PROTEACES (Phillips & Stapf). 585 
flattened and up to } lin. broad below, much attenuated above, 
glabrous; stigma 1} lin. long, subulate, grooved, obtuse, almost 
imperceptibly passing into the style. 
Coast Recion : Laingsburg Div. ; on the Witteberg Range near Matjesfontein, 
Marloth, 3209! 
40. P. punctata (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 238); branches 
tomentose ; leaves 1}—2 in. long, 6-14 lin. broad, elliptic-oblong or 
oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, rounded or attenuated at 
the base, with the venation more prominent beneath than above, 
the younger leaves villous-tomentose, soon woolly glabrous ; head 
sessile, 14-2 in. long, about 1} in. in diam.; receptacle flat ; 
involucral scales 5-seriate, silky-tomentose, at length becoming 
glabrous ; outer ovate, obtuse; inner oblong, ciliate round the 
apex, equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath tube 8 lin. long, 
membranous, rufous-hirsute excepting at the 3-keeled glabrous base ; 
lip 7 lin. long, tridentate, glabrous; teeth subequal, } lin. long, 
obtuse ; stamens all fertile; filaments } lin. long, dilated and 
concave; anthers linear, 5} lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, 
lanceolate, with a swelling on the inner face; style 1} in. long, 
slightly curved or flexuous, compressed and dilated below, glabrous ; 
stigma 53 lin. long, filiform, gradually passing into the style. 
P. carlescens, E. Meyer ex Meisn.l.c. P. coriacea, Buek ex Meisn. l.c. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cedarberg Range, near Ezelsbank, Drége ! 
Centra Reaion: Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwartberg Range, Drége, 2009! 
Hallack in Herb. Galpin, 3075 ! 
41, P. caffra (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 237) ; branches glabrous ; 
leaves 33-43 in. long, 8-11 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse or retuse, narrowing at the base, indistinctly veined, 
glabrous ; head contracted at the base into a scaly stipes, 24 in. 
long, about 24 in. in diam., globose ; involucral bracts 16-seriate, 
densely tomentose, at length glabrous ; outer ovate, obtuse ; inner 
oblong-elliptic, incurved, not equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 
glabrous, base dilated, 3-keeled with distinct intracarinal nerves ; 
lip 6 lin. long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled, glabrous ; stamens all fertile ; 
filaments } lin. long, flattened, concave; anthers linear, 4} lin. 
long ; apical glands } lin, long, elliptic, swollen on the inner face ; 
ovary 3 lin. long, narrowly oblong, covered with a tuft of long 
reddish-brown hairs ; style 1} in. long, curved in the lower half, 
tapering from the base upwards, slender above ; stigma up to 6} lin. 
long, finely filiform, grooved, obtuse, almost imperceptibly passing 
into the style. 
Katanari Recon : Basutoland, Leribe, Mrs. Dieterlen! Transvaal ; Magalies- 
berg Range, Zeyher, 1458! Heidelberg, Burtt-Davy, 5646! Zeerust, Burtt-Davy, 
107 ! Rustenburg, Collins, 34! 
