602 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
sheath 8-9 lin. long, rather abruptly dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved 
below, villous on the outside, hairs rufous or fulvous, glabrous at 
the base; lip 3}—4 lin. long, 3-toothed, tomentose to villous on the 
sides, glabrescent on the back ; teeth subequal, } lin. long, villous ; 
stamens all fertile; filaments } lin. long, ovate; anthers linear, 
21 lin. long; apical glands 4 lin. long, lanceolate-ovate, subacute, 
swollen on the inner face ; ovary 3 lin. long, obovoid, covered with 
long dark-brown hairs ; style 12 lin. long, curved, subulate, tapering 
from the bulbously much thickened base, glabrous; stigma 2 lin. 
long, obtuse, imperceptibly passing into the style. Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 352 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 242, partly. P. revoluta, 
Buek, ex Meisn.l.ec. P.lorea, Drége ex Meisn. 1.c., partly. P. scabra 
var. stenophylla, Meisn, l.c. 243. 
South Arrica: without locality, Drége! 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Niven! Fry in Herb. 
Galpin, 4985! Sparrbosch, Drege. Caledon Div. ; Great Houw Hoek and River 
Zondereinde, Pappe ! 
73. P. acaulis (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 56); stems subterranean or 
prostrate on the ground and up to 1 ft. long, glabrous; leaves 
extremely variable, 3-8} in. long, }-3 in. broad at the widest 
part, rotundate-obovate, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, usually 
obtuse, rarely acute, often apiculate, long attenuated into a petiole, — 
distinctly veined, with a callous margin, glabrous, often glaucous ; 
head sessile, sometimes contracted into a short stipes, 14-14 lin. 
long, about 14 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 8-seriate, minutely 
ciliate, otherwise glabrous, outer ovate, obtuse; inner oblong, 
equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 10-11 lin. long, rather wide, 
gradually dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved at the base, densely ciliate 
in the middle part, otherwise glabrous; lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, 
pubescent; teeth subequal, 14 lin. long; stamens all fertile ; 
filaments } lin. long, flattened ; anthers linear, 1} lin. long ; apical 
glands } lin, long, lanceolate, obtuse ; ovary 1 lin. long, elliptic- 
ovoid, covered with long reddish-brown hairs; style 11 lin. long, 
sickle-shaped, subulate from a narrow lanceolate more or less 
swollen base, terete above, glabrous; stigma 1} lin. long, tinely 
subulate, obtuse, gradually passing into the style. Thunb. Prodr. 
27; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 529 ; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 141; R. Br. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 89; Thunb, Fl. Cap. ed. i. 503; Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iti. 351; Bot. Mag. t. 2065; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. Mant. 265; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 244 ; var. 
arenaria, Meisn. le. 245. P. nana, Lam. Ill. i. 233, not of Thunb. ; 
Poir, Encyl. v. 639 ; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. ix. t. 399, ew Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 351. P. arenaria, Buek in Drége, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 213. P. acaulis, a, Drége ex Meisn. l.c., partly. Ero- 
dendrum limoniifolium, B, Knight, Prot. 47. Leucadendron acaulon, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 92.—Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, ete., Boerh. 
Ind. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 191, t. 191, fig. b. Scolymocephalus sen 
Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, etc., Weinm. Phyt. iv. 291, t. 897. 
