Protea. | PROTEACE& (Phillips & Stapf). 589 
outline, covered with reddish-brown hairs ; style 10} lin. long, slightly 
flexuous, bulbously thickened above the ovary, then constricted and 
subterete ; stigma 2? lin. long, very slender, obtuse, slightly wavy 
at the junction with the style. 
KaLAHARI Reaion: Swaziland ; near Embabaan, Burtt-Davy, 2767! 2896! 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland ; Bazeia Mountains, Baur, 608! Griqualand 
East ; Pot River Berg, Galpin, 6823! Natal; Gerrard, 721! Sutherland ! 
48. P. lanceolata (E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 213, 
name only) ; a bush 6 ft. high ; branches glabrous ; leaves 1-2} in. 
long, 3-5 lin. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, attenuated at the base, 
indistinctly veined, glabrous ; head sessile, 2 in. long, about 1} in. 
in diam. ; involucral bracts 9-11-seriate, glabrous; outer ovate, 
subacuminate, obtuse, with dark margins and tips ; inner oblong, 
shorter than the flowers ; perianth-sheath much widened, 7-nerved 
and 3-keeled and glabrous up to 5-6 lin. from the base, then much 
attenuated, sparingly setulose outside and rufo-pubescent within, 
1 in. long ; lip 7-8 lin. long, glabrous or with a few setule at the 
apex, 3-toothed, 3-keeled ; teeth subequal, } lin. long; stamens all 
fertile, sessile ; anthers linear, 6 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse ; style over 1} in. long, somewhat flexuous upwards, 
glabrous, bulbously thickened above the ovary, very slender above ; 
stigma finely filiform, 4—5 lin. long, obtuse, imperceptibly passing 
into the style; fruit 3-4 lin. long, cylindric-obovoid, crowned 
by the persistent bulbous base of the style. Metsn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 240. 
Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div. ; Zandhoogte, Muir in Herb. Galpin, 5306! 
Hooge Kraal, near Zoetemelks River, Drége! Mossel Bay Div.; Honig Klip, 
Drége | ; Between Mossel Bay and Cape St. Blaize, Burchell, 6258 ! 
49. P. Doddii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 82); a small 
shrub 12-14 in. high; branches glabrous ; leaves 1}—2} in. long, 
24-24 lin. broad, linear to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at 
the base, indistinctly veined, with a somewhat sunken midrib, 
glabrous ; head sessile, 2 in. long, about 1} in. in diam. ; receptacle 
slightly convex ; palee ovate, acute; involucral bracts 12-seriate ; 
outer ovate, acute or subacute, glabrous or the very lowest silky- 
pubescent and ciliate; inner oblong, obtuse, concave, glabrous, 
equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 10-11 lin. long, dilated, 
3-keeled and 7-nerved below, glabrous except on the puberulous 
sides within ; lip 44 lin. long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled, glabrous with 
little tufts of setule on the tips of the teeth; teeth equal, 3 lin. 
long ; stamens sessile ; anthers linear, 3 lin. long; apical glands 
1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse ; ovary 1 lin. long, obovate-elliptic in 
outline, covered with long brownish-yellow hairs ; style 1} in. long, 
bulbously thickened at the base, then slender, flexuous, glabrous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, filiform, obtuse, passing with a slight bend into 
the style. 
Coast Reaton: East London Div, ; between Gonubie and Quinera Rivers, Dodd 
in Herb. Galpin, 7936 ! ; 
