596 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
44 in. long, terete ; head sessile, 5-8 in. long, about 5-8 in. in 
diam. ; involucral bracts 12—13-seriate ; outer ovate to ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, like the inner at first more or less densely whitish- or 
greyish-tomentose, often at length glabrescent or the lowest quite 
glabrous ; inner lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, acute, mostly perma- 
nently tomentose, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath over 
2 in. long, pubescent outside on the upper part, and pubescent to 
villous within from the widened base upwards, particularly along 
the sides, dilated, 7-nerved, faintly 3-keeled and glabrous below ; 
lip 1 lin. long, tomentose, produced into 3 tomentose or villous 
awns ; lateral awns 2 lin. long; median awn 2 lin. long ; stamens 
all fertile ; filaments } in. long, flattened ; anthers linear, 4 lin. 
long ; apical glands } lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; ovary 2 lin. long, 
oblong, covered with long whitish hairs; style 24 in. long, laterally 
much flattened, slightly curved inwards, pubescent, at least below ; 
stigma 4 lin. long, filiform, obtuse, kneed and bent at the junction 
with the style. Thunb. Diss. Prot, 58; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 534; 
Thunb. Prodr. 28; Lam. Ill. i. 234; Poir, Encycl. v. 639 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 770; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 288; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. Ds 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. i. 514; Roem. d& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 342 ; 
Roupell, Cap. Flow. t. 8; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 245 (inel. vars. 
obtusifolia, elliptica and glabrata). P. cynaroides, var. elliptica, 
Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 75. P. petiolata, Buek, ex Meisn. Le. 
P. Woodwardii, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. ii. 77. Erodendrum cynare- 
forum, Knight, Prot. 43. Leucadendron cinaroides, a, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. i. 92.—Lepidocarpodendron folio subrotundo, Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. 
Iugd. Bat, ii, 184, t. 184. Scolymocephalus africanus folio, ete., 
Weinm. Phyt. iv. 287, f. 892. 
Coast Recton: Tulbagh Div. ; mountains above Tulbagh Waterfall, Brodie! 
Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Zhwnberg! 
Burchell, 660! Drége! Phillips! Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Burchell, 
7381! Fry in Herb. Galpin, 4983! George Div.; Kaymans Gat, Drége. Knysna 
Div. ; Outemqua Mountains, Drege. Humansdorp Div. ; Zitzikamma, Krauss ! 
Port Elizabeth Div. ? Cooper, 3068! Uitenage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Ecklon. 
Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Cooper, 53! MacOwan, 1202! 
_ Meisner’s var. glabrata is based on Krauss’s specimen from Zitzikamma, which 
is at the same time the type of Klotzsch’s var. elliptica, a variety kept up by 
Meisner himself. It has less hairy involucral scales than the usual form, but 
they are by no means glabrous. As to Andrews, t. 288, also referred by Meisner 
to his var. glabrata, there is nothing in the plate to show that the scales of the 
plant figured were glabrous. 
63. P. cryophila (Bolus in Trans. Royal Soc. 8. Africa, i. 163) ; 
stem short; leaves 12-13} in. long, 14-2 in. broad, oblanceolate, 
subacute, attenuated into a long petiole, distinctly veined, coriaceous, 
glabrous ; petiole flat above, convex on the back; head sessile, 
erect, 6-7 in. long, about 5 in. in diam.; involucral bracts 
10-12-seriate ; outer lanceolate, long-acuminate, acute, the lowest 
glabrous or glabrescent, the following increasingly white-tomentose 
to felted, inner ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, recurved at the 
apex, very densely white-felted, shorter than the flowers; 
