Protea.} PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). 603 
Sourn Arriva: without locality, Beryius! Roxburgh, Labillardiére! Forster! 
Ecklon, 6! Gueinzius ! : 3 
Coast Rereion: Clanwilliam Div. ; near Ezelsbank, Drége. Piquetberg Div. ; 
near Piquetberg, Drége ! Tulbagh Div. ; Witzenberg Range, Pappe! Paarl Div. 4 
Paarl Mountain, Drége! Cape Div. ; hills and flats around Cape Town, Thunberg ! 
Masson! Burchell, 1! 8575! Ecklon, 11! Jameson! Krauss, 1071, Bolus, 3761! 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr.780 | Phillips! Pappe! Caledon Div. ; various 
localities, Burchell, 7935! 8008! 8105! 8636! Zeyher, 3668 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; 
Kars River, Ludwig. Uitenhage Div. ; Winterberg Range, Arauss, 1071. 
74. P. glaucophylla (Salisb. Parad. Lond. ¢. 11); main stem 
subterranean ; flowering and leaf-bearing branches 1-32 in. long, 
prostrate ; leaves 54-8 in. long, 8-12 lin. broad, elongate-lanceolate, 
subacute, sometimes acutely apiculate, long attenuated at the base, 
distinctly veined, glabrous, glaucous ; head sessile, or shortly con- 
tracted into a scaly stipes, 2 in. long, about 2 in. in diam. ; involu- 
cral bracts 12-seriate, glabrous; outer ovate, obtuse, minutely 
ciliate ; inner oblong, equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 9 Jin. 
long, rather slender, somewhat abruptly dilated and 3-keeled below, 
excepting on the ciliate margins of the middle part, glabrous ; lip 
3 lin. long, 3-toothed, pubescent or hirsute, glabrous on the back ; 
lateral teeth } lin. long, oblong, subacute, villous, at least when 
young, median somewhat shorter and more acute; stamens all 
fertile, subsessile ; anthers linear, 1} lin. long ; apical glands } lin. 
long, ovate, acuminate, slightly swollen on the inner face ; ovary 
2 lin. long, oblong, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 
10 lin. long, sickle-shaped, subulate from the narrow-linear com- 
pressed lower half, somewhat smaller at the base, glabrous ; stigma 
2 lin, long, subulate, obtuse, gradually passing into the style. 
P. elongata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 90; Meisn. in DO. 
Prodr. xiv. 245. P. angustata, Drége ex Meisn. lc. Erodendrum 
glaucophyllum, Knight, Prot. 47, incl. var. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, Niven, Drége! Pappe! Riversdale 
Div. ; between the Little Vet River and Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6859 ! 
75. P. Burchellii (Stapf); stems subterranean, branched ; 
branches rising slightly above the ground, their upper portions 
finely hairy, at least when young; leaves oblanceolate-linear to 
linear, attenuated below, acute, with a callous point, 6-9 in. long, 
§-1 in. broad, glossy, prominently veined on both sides, lateral 
nerves running into the narrow more or less thickened margin, 
glabrous or finely hairy near the base; head subglobose, sessile, 
rounded at the base, 2} in. long, over 1} in. in diam. ; outer in- 
volucral bracts ovate, obtuse to subobtuse, finely greyish pubescent and 
ciliate when quite young, soon glabrous, dark chestnut-brown, inner 
elongated, oblong, obtuse, not quite equalling the flowers ; perianth- 
sheath 1} in. long, slender in the upper 3, then widened, finely 
3-keeled and 5-nerved, densely fulvo-pubescent down to the widened 
ciliolate (but otherwise glabrous) base ; lip 6 lin. long, villous, ex- 
cepting on the glabrescent back ; lateral teeth filiform, acute, 14 lin. 
long, the middle one much shorter and finer ; stamens all fertile ; 
