Protea. | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 595 
_ back, exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 7 lin. long, dilated, 
setulose-ciliate along the margin and densely rufously hairy within, 
otherwise glabrous, dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below ; lip 3 lin. 
long, glabrous, or sometimes with a few scattered bristles ; stamens 
all fertile; filaments } lin. long, swollen, channelled; anthers 
linear, 14 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, acute, swollen 
on the inner face; ovary obovate-oblong, covered with a tuft of 
long fulvous hairs; style 8-9 lin. long, obliquely widened and 
compressed above the ovary, then subulate, falcate, glabrous ; 
stigma 14 lin. long, grooved, obtuse, passing with an obscure bend 
into the style. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh and Ceres Div. ; Witzenberg Range, Zeyher, 3687 ! 
Burchell, 8676 ! 
61. P. rosacea (Linn. Mant. alt. 189); small shrub with a simple 
stem 4—6 in. long ; branches numerous, gracefully curved, glabrous ; 
leaves 6-10 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, linear, acicular, pungent, with 
a shallow groove along each side of the midrib, glabrous ; head 
sessile, 14 in. long, about 14 in. in diam., pendulous ; involucral 
bracts 8-seriate, glabrous, bright rose to crimson ; outer ovate to 
ovate-oblong, more or less obtuse, ciliate; inner oblong, obtuse, 
but often apparently acuminate owing to the involute upper margin, 
exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 5 lin. long, almost hyaline 
above, dilated, 3-keeled and 5-nerved below, glabrous, ciliate ; lip 
14 lin. long, 3-toothed, oblong, rufously setulose above, ciliate ; 
teeth subequal, 1 lin. long; stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. 
long, flattened ; anthers linear, 1 lin. long; apical glands j; lin. 
long, ovate, acute, keeled on the inner face; ovary covered with 
long light brown hairs ; style 7 lin. long, narrowed from the base 
upwards, curved inwards or at length almost erect, flattened 
below, glabrous; stigma | lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, hardly 
swollen at the junction with the style. Lum. Ill. i. 238; Poir. 
Encyel. v. 653 ; Smith, Exot. Bot. i. 85, t. 44. P. nana, Thunb. Diss. 
Prot. 51; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 139; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 519; 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 87; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 1, 475; 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 241. P. acuifolia, Salish. Parad. t. 2. 
Leucadendron nanum, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 325. 
Erodendrum acuifolium, Knight, Prot. 49. . 
‘Coast Recron: Tulbagh Div.; mountain near Tulbagh Waterfall, Bergius, 
Bolus, 5229! Phillips ! near Tulbagh, Pappe! Witzenberg Range, near Tulbagh, 
Zeyher, 1459! Burchell, 8670! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége ! 
Centra, Recion: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 
1090! 
62. P. cynaroides (Linn. Mant. alt. 190) ; a bush, up to 6 ft. high 
or sometimes acaulescent ; branches glabrous ; leaves petioled ; blade 
24-5} in. long, 2-3} in. broad, varying from subrotundate and 
obtuse to elliptic and acute, cuneate at the base, prominently and 
reticulately veined on both sides, punctate, glabrous ; petiole up to 
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