Protea. | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). - 699 
ovate, acute, following ovate-lanceolate more or less acuminate or 
subacute ; inner elongate-oblong to linear, convex, more or less 
acuminate, subacute, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 23 in. 
long, dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below, then gradually narrowed 
and slender, glabrous, densely white-ciliate for more than 1 in. ; 
lips 8 lin. long, 3-awned, very densely woolly along the margins, 
more or less glabrous on the back ; lateral awns 3 lin. long, linear- 
oblong, hidden in dense whitish wool; median awn 2 lin. long, 
ovate, acuminate ; stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, swollen, 
deeply furrowed ; anthers linear, 3 lin. long ; apical glands ? lin. 
long, oblong or lanceolate; ovary 1 lin. long, oblong in outline, 
covered with long white hairs ; style 24 in. long, narrowing from 
the widened hollow base upwards, glabrous; stigma 33 lin. long, 
grooved, obtuse, kneed and slightly bent at the junction with the 
style. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 353; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 242. P. aulax, Hibbert in Herb. Smith, ex Meisn. lc. P. 
coronata, Curt. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. i. 658.  Hrodendrum pini- 
Jolium, Knight, Prot. 45. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Masson. 
Coast Reeron: Paarl Div. ; French Hoek, Miren! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr,-Afr. 781! Riversdale Div. ; 
Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6958 ! 
68. P. repens (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 34); an acaulescent plant ; 
leaves 24-8 in. long, }-1 lin. broad, filiform to linear, acute, 
coriaceous, glabrous, smooth or more or less tubercled and rough, 
the uppermost sometimes long softly pilose at the base, upwards 
with strongly recurved margins, hence dorsally channelled ; heads 
shortly stipitate, 4 in. long, about 3 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
10-seriate, silky-pubescent without, ciliolate ; outer ovate, obtuse ; 
inner much elongated, oblong; innermost narrowed downwards, 
equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, dilated, 7-nerved 
at the base, densely and long pilose to villous outside except at the 
glabrous base ; lip 9 lin. long, densely pubescent to villous, 3-awned ; 
lateral awns 23 lin. long, shaggy with yellowish hairs; median awn 
11 lin. long; stamens all fertile; filaments } lin. long, swollen, 
expanded, deeply furrowed; anthers linear, 4} lin. long; ovary — 
1 lin. long, obovate in outline, covered with long reddish-brown 
hairs ; style 2 in. long, slightly curved or almost straight below, 
somewhat widened and flattened below, then terete and tapering 
above, glabrous or very sparingly puberulous ; stigma finely grooved, 
3-4 lin. long, subacute, passing into the style. Lam. Ill. i. 236 ; 
Thunb. Prodr. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. i. 486; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 523 ; Poir. 
Encycl. v. 646 ; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 92; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 353 ; Meisn. in DO, Prodr. xiv. 242, with vars. P. 
‘ canaliculata, Herb. Linn. Soc. ex Meisn., lc. P. Strobus, Meisn. Le. not 
of Andr. Leucadendron repens, 8, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 92. —Lepido. 
carpodendron fol. longiss. etc., Boerh. Ind. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat, ii. 
190, t. 190 ; Weinm, Phyt. iv, 290, t. 897, 
