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588 PROTEACE® (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
anticous perianth-segment fulvously pilose); lateral teeth ? lin. 
long, oblong, fulvously villous ; median tooth } lin. long, narrower 
than the 2 lateral teeth; stamens subsessile; filaments concave ; 
anthers linear, 4} lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, swollen 
on the inner face; hypogynous scales } lin. long, } lin: broad, 
oblong, obtuse; ovary 1 lin. long, covered with long hairs ; style 
over | in. long, slender, glabrous; stigma 4} lin. long, filiform, 
obtuse, furrowed, almost imperceptibly passing into the style. 
Karanart Reaion: Transvaal ; Goedgeluk, Zoutpans Berg, Burtt-Davy, 5179! 
46. P. Flanaganii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 232) ; branches 
glabrous ; leaves 34-5 in. long, occasionally 14 in. long, 3-7 lin. 
broad above, }-1} lin. broad at the base, linear-oblanceolate to 
strap-shaped, obtuse or subacute, narrowed or attenuated at the 
base, glabrous ; head sessile, 2} in. long, about 2} in. in diam. ; 
involucral bracts 8-10-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, minutely silky- 
pubescent on the lower half or glabrous ; inner oblong or spathulate- 
oblong, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 12-14 lin. long, 
dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below, fulvous-pubescent or villosulous 
within in the upper part; glabrous outside, ciliate, lip 54 lin. long, 
3-toothed, glabrous or with scattered stiff hairs ; lateral teeth ? lin. 
long, broadly oblong, ciliate ; median tooth 4 lin. long, ovate, acumi- 
nate ; stamens all fertile, sessile; anthers linear, 34-4} lin. long ; 
apical glands } lin. long, elliptic, obtuse, swollen on the inner face ; 
ovary 2 lin. long, obovate-oblong, covered with yellowish-red hairs ; 
style 1} in. long, somewhat flexuous, glabrous, bulbously thickened 
above the ovary, then constricted, then widening and compressed to 
the middle, whence gradually tapering; stigma 34-44 lin. long, 
very slender, obtuse, passing gradually or with a small bend into 
the style. 
Coast Recion: Komgha Diy, ?; Gwenkala River, Flanagan, 804! 
Eastern Reciow: Transkei; near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 274! 
The material of Pegler, 274, consists of a barren shoot and a detached head. 
The smaller leaf measurements all refer to the barren shoot. 
47, P. simplex (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 232); stem 
simple, }-1} ft. high, glabrous ; leaves 2-3} in. long, 3-8 lin. broad, 
oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, long attenuated 
at the base, indistinctly veined, with a distinct midrib, glabrous ; 
head sessile, 1} in, long, about 1} in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
6-seriate, glabrous or the outermost sometimes minutely silky- 
pubescent ; outer ovate, subacuminate, obtuse; inner oblong, 
equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 9 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled 
and 7-nerved below, fulvous-villosulous within in the upper part; 
lip 54 lin. long, 3-toothed, glabrous; lateral teeth 3 lin. long; 
oblong; median tooth } lin. long, ovate, acuminate, setulose ; 
stamens all fertile, subsessile ; anthers linear, 23 lin. long 5 apical 
glands ovate, obtuse, swollen on the inner face; hy ous Se 
| lin, long, elliptic, acuminate, obtuse ; ovary 24 lin. long, oblong 9 
