Protea, | PROTEACE (Phillips & Stapf). 601 
covered with long brown hairs; style almost 1 in. long, terete, 
passing into the cylindric ovary, tapering upwards, slightly curved, 
glabrous ; stigma 24 lin. long, filiform, subacute, finely grooved, 
with a minute bend at the junction with the style. Roem. d: 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 353; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 244. 
P. cespitosa, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 526. Erodendrum turbiniflorum, 
Salish. Parad. t. 108. E. ceespitosum, Knight, Prot. 43. 
Coast Recron: Paarl Div. ; Bushmans Kloof (Boshiesmans Gat), Niven ! 
Caledon Div. ; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 7751! 
71. P. scabra (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 91); stems and 
branches subterranean with the flower-heads and surrounding leaves 
close to the ground; leaves 44-10 in. long, 3-7 lin. (of young 
shoots up to 1 in.) broad, linear, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
flat or with revolute margins and then almost cylindric, acute to sub- 
obtuse or even obtuse, attenuated at the base, the broader ones 
distinctly veined, the lateral nerves joining into a more or less con- 
spicuous marginal nerve, rough with small tubercles, when young 
loosely pilose with long flexuous white hairs, soon glabrous ; head 
sessile, 1}-2 in. long, about 2 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 
8-seriate, finely rufo-tomentose or pubescent, at length becoming 
glabrous ; outer ovate, subacute, ciliate; inner oblong or linear- 
oblong, ciliate, exceeding the flowers ; perianth-sheath 12 lin. long, 
gradually dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below, loosely villous with 
the exception of the glabrous base; lip 5 lin. long, 3-toothed, 
villous ; teeth subequal, #~—1 lin. long, villous ; stamens all fertile, 
subsessile ; anthers linear, 3 lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, 
lanceolate or oblong, subacute ; ovary 2 lin. long, obovate ; densely 
covered with long reddish-brown hairs; style 14-1} in. long, 
strongly curved, bulbously thickened at the base, terete above, 
glabrous ; stigma 34 lin, long, finely subulate, subobtuse. Roem. 
& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 352; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 243, 
inel, vars. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh, Drége! Grey! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Burchell, 8075! Zeyher, 3673! 
MacOwan, 2911! & in Herb. Norm. Austr,-Afr. 903! Onrust River, and Haarte- 
beest River, Zeyher, 3672! Ganzekraal, Burchell, 7549! Zoetemelks Valley, 
Burchell, 7593! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Zeyher, 3671! Uniondale 
Div. ; Long Kloof, Mund. 
72. P. tenuifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn, Soc. x. 90); stems and 
branches subterranean with the flower-heads and surrounding 
leaves close to the ground; leaves 6-9} in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, 
linear, with revolute margins, long attenuated at the base, acute, 
rough with small tubercles, when young loosely pilose with long 
flexuous white hairs, soon quite glabrous ; heads sessile, 14 in. long, 
about 1 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 7-sériate, finely rufo- or 
fulvo-pubescent, at length glabrescent, ciliate ; outer ovate, obtuse ; 
inner oblong or linear-oblong, not equalling the flowers ; perianth- 
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