604 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
filaments { lin. long, widened upwards ; anthers linear, 2 lin. long ; 
apical gland oblong, obtuse, } lin. long ; ovary subobovate-oblong, 
densely covered with rufous hairs ; style subulate and terete from a 
compressed narrowly and obliquely lanceolate base, constricted at 
the junction with the ovary, strongly curved from below the middle, 
lf in. long, pubescent up to the middle ; stigma subulate, obtuse, 
almost imperceptibly passing into the style. 
Coast Recron : Stellenbosch Div. ; between Lowrys Pass and Jonkers Hoek, 
Burchell, 8332 ! 
76. P. angustata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn, Soc. x. 90) ; stems under- 
ground or the flowering branches raised 1-2 in. above ground, 
glabrous, rather slender; leaves linear-oblanceolate to narrowly 
oblanceolate, long attenuated below, subobtuse to acute with a 
callous point, up to 6 in, long, 4-1 in. wide, slightly glossy or dull, 
obscurely or the broadest prominently veined on both sides with 
the lateral nerves running into the thickened margin, glabrous ; 
heads globose, sessile, rounded at the base or contracted into a 
scaly stipes, 1-1} in. in diam.; outer involucral bracts ovate, 
obtuse, inner elongated, oblong, all quite glabrous excepting on 
the ciliolate margins, reddish to dark brown, not equalling the 
flowers ; perianth-sheath 8 lin. long, gradually widened from the 
upper 4 downwards, finely 3-keeled and 5-nerved, densely ciliate 
from the glabrous lower } upwards and more or less villous on the 
back above the middle ; lip 3 lin. long, pubescent to villous ; lateral 
teeth linear-oblong, subobtuse, } lin. long, middle one narrower and 
shorter, shortly villous ; stamens all fertile ; filaments linear, } lin. 
long ; anthers linear, 1 lin, long ; apical gland oblong, acute ; ovary 
oblong, 34 lin. long, densely covered with rufous hairs; style 
subulate from an obliquely linear-lanceolate compressed base, 
strongly curved from the middle, about 10 lin. long, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent at the base; stigma subulate, obtuse, 14 lin. 
long, imperceptibly passing into the style. 
Coast Reaion : Caledon Div. ; Vogelgat, Schlechter, 9539 ! Tulbagh Div. ; New 
Kloof, Drége, 1450! Caledon Div. ; lear the mouth of the Klein River, Zeyher, 
3669! Great Houw Hoek, Niven! mountains near the Zondereinde River, 
Zeyher, 3668 ! 
This is possibly an extreme, narrow-leaved state of P. acaulis. 
77. P. levis (R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 91); main stem 
subterranean, producing prostrate or ascending, glabrous branches 
up to over 3 in. long; leaves 34-64 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, 
linear to oblanceolate-linear, acute, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 
subglaucous, veinless, with acute margins ; head sometimes con- 
tracted into a short scaly stipes about 14 in. long, about 1 in. 
in diam. ; involucral bracts 12-14-seriate, glabrous ; outer elliptic- 
ovate, obtuse or subobtuse, ciliate; inner oblong, ciliate, equalling 
the flowers; perianth-sheath 8 lin. long, gradually dilated from 
the middle downwards, distinctly 3-nerved, faintly 5-nerved below, _ 
