600 PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Gueinzius ! : 
Coast REGION: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Paarl Div. ; by the 
Breede River, near Darling Bridge, Bolus, 5230! French Hoek, Miss Treleaven ! 
Niven ! Cape Div. ; Constantia ex Boerhaave. Port Elizabeth Div. ; Algoa Bay, 
Cooper, 3067 ! 
69. P.echinulata (Meisn.in DC. Prodr. xiv. 242) ; an acaulescent 
plant ; leaves 5-7} in. long, } lin. broad, filiform, flexuous, acute, 
mucronate, channelled below in the upper part, coriaceous, tuber- 
cled, scabrous, with long soft hairs, at length glabrous; head 
sessile or subsessile, 24 in. long, about 2 in. in diam. ; involucral 
bracts 10-seriate; outer ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous or 
ciliate ; inner oblong ; innermost elongated, pubescent or more or 
less tomentellous or glabrescent in part, the margins fringed with 
dense fulvous cilia equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 1} in. 
long, very slender, suddenly expanded and faintly 7-nerved below, 
fulvous-villous except at the very base; lip 6 lin. long, 3-toothed 
or nerved, fulvously villous, ciliate; lateral awns 24 lin. long, 
long villous, acuminate ; median tooth over 1 lin. long ; stamens 
all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, obovate, thickened ; anthers linear, 
4} lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, lanceolate, swollen on the 
inner face; ovary 2 lin. long, oblong, covered with long reddish- 
brown hairs ; style 1? in. long, curved and twisted, narrowing from 
the base upwards, more or less triquetrous below and flattened 
upwards, at least when dry, glabrous; stigma 5 lin. long, finely 
channelled, obtuse, imperceptibly passing into the style. Hroden- 
drum restionifolium, Knight, Prot. 45. 
Var. 8, minor (E. P. Phillips); head 1} in. long, about 1} in. in diam. 
Coast Recron: Worcester Div. ; Brand Vley, Niven, 32! Caledon Div. ; 
between Genadendal and Donkers Hoek, Burchell, 7913! between Houw Hoek 
and Bot River, Bowie! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3670! Ludwig ! 
Centrat Recion: Var. 8: Ceres Div. ; Klein Vley, Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 
10215! 
70. P. turbiniflora (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 93); an 
acaulescent plant ; leaves 5-11} in. long, 14-13 in. broad at the 
widest part, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, acute, 
attenuated at the base into a long-winged petiole, prominently 
pinnately veined, minutely rugulose, softly pilose when young, at 
length glabrous, with undulating margins ; head sessile, 2-24 in. 
long, about 1} in. in diam., erect, surrounded by subsessile short 
obovate or obovate-lanceolate acute glabrous leaves, 2 in. long ; 
involucral bracts about 5-seriate, densely pubescent to tomentose, 
ciliate ; outer ovate-oblong, obtuse ; inner oblong to linear-oblong, 
densely ciliate or shortly bearded at the apex, equalling the | 
flowers ; perianth-sheath 1} in. long, dilated, 3-keeled and obscurely 
7-nerved at the glabrous base, densely hairy above ; lip 6 lin. long,- 
pilose, produced into 3 long finely filiform wavy densely villous 
awns, 3 lin. long; stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, spathu- 
late ; anthers linear, 24 lin. long; apical glands 4 lin. long, ovate, 
obtuse, swollen on the inner face; ovary 2 lin. long, cylindric, 
