Protea.) ~~ PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 593 
Ffolium, Knight, Prot. 48.  P. odoratissima, Masson, in Herb. Ait. ex 
Meisn. l.c.240. Ps: mucronata, Hort.’ ex Steud. Nomenel. ed, 2, ii. 400. 
Var. 8, Gueinzii (Stapf); differs from the type in having narrower channelled 
leaves with recurved margins. P. mucronifolia, var. Gueinzi, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 241, 
Sourn Arrica: Var. B: without locality, Roxburgh, 47! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; sandy flats near Berg Vley, Niven ! 
57. P. scolymocephala (Reichard, Syst. Pl. i. 271); a small bush 
2-3 ft. high; branches glabrous ; leaves ?-25 in. long, }?—2 lin. 
broad, narrowly linear-oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, long at- 
tenuated at the base, indistinctly veined, glabrous; head sessile, 
3-1 in. long, about 1 in. in diam. at the base, somewhat flattened ; 
receptacle conical; palew acute; involucral bracts 6-—7-seriate, 
glabrous, pale green, with membranous margins, ciliolate; outer 
ovate, obtuse; inner spreading, oblong, obtuse; perianth-sheath 
5-6 lin. long, much curved, glabrous, gradually widened from the 
middle downwards, 5-nerved and faintly 3-keeled ; anticous limb 
hairy on the back; lip 1} lin. long, 3-toothed, pinkish, with an 
apical tuft of white hairs; lateral teeth } lin. long; median tooth 
smaller; stamens all fertile, subsessile; anthers linear-oblong, 
? lin. long; ovary up to 2 lin. long, oblong, covered with long 
brown hairs; style 5—6 lin. long, compressed and more or less 
obliquely widened above the ovary, then gradually tapering and 
faleate, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, finely filiform, almost im- 
perceptibly passing into the style. P. Scolymus, Thunb. Diss. 
Prot. 33; Thunb. Prodr. 26; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 522; Wendl. Sert. 
Hannov. i. iv. 4, t. 20; Andy. Bot. Rep. t. 409; Bot. Mag. t. 698 ; 
Poir, Encyel. vy. 647; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 86; Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iti. 349; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 1, 483 ; Meisn, 
in DO. Prodr. xiv. 239. P. angustifolia, Salish. Prodr. 49. Ero- 
dendrum scolymiflorum, Knight, Prot. 48. Leucadendron scolymo- 
cephalum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 92; Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 
1766, 323.— Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, ramis numerosis, etc., Boerh. 
Ind. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 192, with plate. Seolymocephalus foliis 
angustis, etc., Weinm. Phyt. iv. 288, t. 893. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Ludwig! Thunberg! Sieber! Grey! Ecklon, 
324! Bergius. 
Coast Region: Piquetberg Div. ; between twenty-four Rivers and Pikeniers 
Kloof, Drége! Paarl Div.; between Mosselbanks River and Berg River, Burchell, 
975! Cape Div. ; Devils Mountain, Zeklon, 656! near Wynberg, Burchell, 783! 
Drége! Bolus, 2907! 8845! Red Hill, Jameson! Table Mountain, MacOwan, 
Herb, Austr.-Afr. 1950! Hout Bay Valley, Phillips, 518! Muizen Berg, Wilms, 
3572! Simons Bay, Wright! Stellenbosch Diy. ; between Stellenbosch and Cape 
Flats, Burchell, 8345 ! 
58. P. Harmeri (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 83); a bush 
about 3 ft. high; branches greyish tomentelious above, becoming 
glabrous ; leaves 1}-2} in. long, 14-1} lin. broad, linear, obtuse to 
subacute with a callous point attenuated at the base, margins 
recurved ; youngest leaves finely villous at the base; head sessile, 
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