Protea. | PROTEACE& (Phillips & Stapf). 591 
anthers linear, 1} lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, ovate ; ovary 
oblong, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 10 lin. long, 
curved to falcate, compressed, obliquely dilated above the ovary, 
then gradually tapering, glabrous; stigma 14 lin. long, filiform, 
obtuse, almost imperceptibly passing into the style. Roem. d Schult. 
Syst. Veg. iii. 350; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 241. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson! also in Herb. Forsyth at Kew! 
Coast Region : Tulbagh Div. ; Witzenberg Range, Zeyher, 3687 ex Meisner. 
53. P. sulphurea (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 234); a 
depressed shrub, 6 ft. high; branches glabrous ; leaves 10-14 lin. 
long, 3}-6 lin. broad, narrowly obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, 
subacute, mucronate, indistinctly veined, minutely rugulose, glaucous 
or (in the dry state) yellowish, glabrous; heads subsessile, 24 in. 
long, about 3 in. in diam., pendulous; receptacle 12 lin. high, 
conical ; involucral bracts 9—10-seriate, glabrous ; outer ovate, 
subacute, minutely ciliate ; inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, ex- 
ceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 11 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled 
and 6—7-nerved below, sparingly setose outside to the upper part, 
otherwise glabrous; lip up to 4 lin. long, 3-toothed and slightly 
recurved, with a few scattered setose hairs ; lateral teeth 2 lin. long ; 
median tooth $ lin. long ; stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, 
channelled ; anthers linear, 2} lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, 
ovate, acute ; hypogynous scales 3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; ovary 
covered with long spreading yellow-brown hairs; style 1} in. long, 
faleate, compressed, tapering towards both ends, glabrous ; stigma 
2} lin. long, obtuse, grooved, imperceptibly passing into the 
style. 
Centrat Recion: Laingsburg Div. ; Witteberg Range, near Matjesfontein, 
Marloth, 3208, Pearson ! 
54. P. canaliculata (Haw. in Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 437); a small 
decumbent plant ; branches glabrous ; leaves 5-7 in. long, #14 lin. 
broad, linear, acute or subacute, narrowed at the base, indistinctly 
veined, glabrous ; head sessile, 1? in. long, about 14 in, in diam. ; 
involucral bracts 9-seriate ; outer ovate, obtuse, silky-pubescent, 
ciliate ; inner oblong, concave, pubescent, at length glabrous, ciliate, 
equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 9 lin. long, glabrous, upper 
half narrow, white and almost hyaline between reddish nerves, 
with wavy margins, lower half dilated, 5-nerved and_ faintly 
3-keeled ; lip over 4 lin. long, tridentate, glabrous ; teeth subequal, 
over } lin. long, ovate, with a cylindric apiculus, long villously 
penicillate ; stamens all fertile; filaments } lin. long, dilated, 
concave ; anthers linear, 24 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, 
ovate, obtuse ; ovary 1} lin. long, covered with long reddish-brown 
hairs; style 10 lin. long, curved, compressed and as wide as 
the ovary below, then gradually tapering; stigma 2 lin. long, 
