598 - PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
at the widest part, linear-oblanceolate, acute, long attenuated at the . 
base into a petiole, rough, glabrous or those surrounding the flower- 
heads somewhat hirsute below, with very wavy margins; head sub- 
sessile, 24 in. long, about 14 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 6-seriate, 
lanceolate, acuminate, acute, densely fulvously woolly-tomentose, 
lower at length becoming glabrous and dark chestnut-brown ; inner 
not equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 12 lin. long, gradually 
dilated, faintly 3-keeled and 5-7-nerved below, membranous, 
densely villous on the outside excepting at the glabrous base, hairs 
pallid ; lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, hairy along the sides and_ below, 
glabrescent on the back ; tips with a pallid tuft of hairs, at length 
glabrous ; lateral teeth 4 lin. long, linear, obtuse, median tooth 
slightly shorter ; stamens all fertile; anthers subsessile, linear, 
2% lin. long; apical gland linear-oblong, 3 lin. long, red ; ovary 
13 lin. long, oblong, covered with long white hairs ; style 14 lin. 
long, slightly curved, subulate from an obliquely lanceolate com- 
pressed base, up to over 1 lin. wide in the lower quarter, pubescent 
below, otherwise glabrous ; stigma 14-2 lin. long, obtuse, almost 
_ imperceptibly passing into the style. 
CrentRat Recion : Ceres Div. ; Gydouw, Bolus, 7557! ; Schlechter, 10000! 
66." P. aspera (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 236); an 
acaulescent plant ; leaves 43-6 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, straight or 
falcate, linear, obtuse, mucronate, long attenuated at the base, 
rough with minute tubercles, glabrous or the innermost with a few 
scattered long hairs ; head shortly stipitate, 3-31 in. long, about 
2 in, in diam. ; involucral bracts 9-seriate, finely pubescent outside, 
ciliate ; outer ovate, obtuse ; inner oblong to linear-oblong, and 
densely pubescent near the tips, shorter than the flowers ; perianth- 
sheath 2 in. long, dilated, 3-keeled, and faintly 7-nerved below, 
densely villous-pilose within and without, except at the lower part 
of the widened base ; lip 6 lin. long, 3-awned, tomentose, ending 
_ Ina woolly tuft; awns ovate, acuminate, white-woolly with a few 
dark cilia ; lateral awns 14 lin. long; median awn 1 lin. long; 
stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, swollen, expanded, deeply 
furrowed ; anthers linear, 34 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, 
ovate and acute or ovate-oblong and subacute; ovary 2 lin. long, 
oblong-obovate in outline, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; 
style 2 in. long, narrowing from the base upwards, trigonous below, 
then more or less flattened, sparingly pubescent in the lowest 
quarter ; stigma 34 lin. long, furrowed, subobtuse. 
Coast Reaion : Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, 200 ft., Bolus, 7861 ! 
67. P. lorea (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 93); an acaulescent 
plant ; leaves up to 12 in. long, 4 lin. broad, cylindric, acute, 
mucronate, glabrous, longitudinally grooved; head long-stipitate, 
4 in. long, about 24 in. in diam. ; stipes up to over 1 in. long; 
involucral bracts many-seriate, silky-pubescent, ciliate; lowest 
