592 PROTEACEH (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea 
grooved, subacute, almost imperceptibly passing into the styie. 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 88; Roem. d& Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 
351; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 241. Erodendrum peoniflorum, 
Knight, Prot, 46. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
Coast Recion: Uniondale Div. ; Lange Kloof, Niven ! 
55. P. cedromontana (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 109) ; 
branches glabrous; leaves 3-4 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, linear, 
acute or subacute, long attenuated at the base, indistinctly veined, 
glabrous ; head sessile, 1} in. long, 1 in. in diam., oblong ; in- 
volucral bracts 6-seriate, glabrous, with membranous margins ; 
outer ovate, subacuminate, obtuse ; inner erect, oblong, equalling 
the flowers ; perianth-sheath 5 lin. long, rather wide and gradually 
passing into the dilated, faintly 3-keeled glabrous base, mem- 
branous, glabrous or nearly so except near the lip; lip 2 lin. long, 
3-toothed, with rufous rigid hairs at the base and more or less so 
along the lateral keels ; teeth oblong, subobtuse, equal, 4 lin. long, 
glabrous ; stamens all fertile; filament flattened, 4 lin. long ; 
anthers linear, 14 lin. long; apical glands ovate, } lin. long ; ovary 
up to 2 lin. long, oblong, covered with reddish hairs ; style 9 lin. 
long, falcate, compressed, obliquely widened at the base, then 
sadually tapering, glabrous; stigma 1} lin. long, filiform, 
obtuse. 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Honig Valley and Ezelsbank, Drége ! 
Schlechter, 8808 | 
56. P. odorata (Thunb. Prodr. 187; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
130); branches glabrous; leaves 1-2 in. Jong, }—1 lin. broad, 
linear-subulate, ending in a fine pungent mucro, glabrous, midrib 
prominent ; head sessile, obovoid, 1 in. long, } in. wide ; involucral 
bracts 5—6-seriate, glabrous, white, adpressed ; outer ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, subacuminate; inner lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 
almost pungent, exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 4 lin. long, 
34 lin. long, glabrous, gradually dilated, 3-keeled and 5-nerved 
below ; lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, glabrous, crimson ; teeth subequal, 
1 lin. long, with a tuft of stiff white or fulvous hairs ; stamens 
all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, hardly flattened ; anthers linear, 
14 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, oblong, obtuse; ovary } lin. 
long, obovate in outline, covered with long white hairs ; style 
5 lin. long, almost straight, slender, widened above the ovary, 
then gradually tapering; stigma 1} lin. long, filiform, obtuse, 
almost imperceptibly passing into the style. P. mucronifolia, 
Salish. in Parad. Lond. t. 24; Bot. Mag. t. 933; Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 500; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 863; var. Brownii, 
Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 241. Leucadendron (?) odoratum, 
Steud. Nomenel. ed. 2, ii. 35; Meisn. l.c. 228. Erodendrum mucront- 
