Protea. | PROTEACE® (Phillips & Stapf). 605 
glabrous, excepting on the very densely ciliate margins; lip 2 
lin. long, 3-toothed, pubescent or shortly tomentose excepting on 
the more or less glabrous back ; teeth subequal, } lin. long, villous ; 
stamens all fertile ; filaments } lin. long, obovate ; anthers linear, 
1} lin. long ; apical glands } lin, long, ovate, subacuminate, acute ; 
ovary obovate-oblong, covered with long reddish-yellow hairs ; 
style 9 lin. long, sickle-shaped, subulate from an obliquely lanceolate 
compressed base, glabrous; stigma 1 lin. long, finely subulate, 
obtuse. Poir, Encycl: Suppl. iv. 562; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iii. 352 ; Mant. 265; Bot. Mag. t. 2439; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
241. P. longifolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 37. P. Zeyheri, Phillips 
in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 235. Erodendrum longifolium, Knight, Prot. 46. 
Soura Arrica : without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ezelsbank, Drége | Schlechter, 8804! Honig 
Valley and Koude Berg, Drége ! Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, Drége. Paarde 
Kloot in the Witzenberg Range, Zeyher, 1460! Caledon Div. ; mountains near 
Houw Hoek, MacOwan, 2912! Knysna Div. ; Outeniqua Mountains, Drége. 
Uniondale Div. ; Long Kloof, Masson, Niven ! 
This also approaches P. acaulis very closely in the structure of the heads, and 
differs mainly in the veinless leaves and thin acute cartilaginous margin. 
78. P. revoluta (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 90); stem 
subterranean ; leaf-bearing branches prostrate or ascending, 2—3 in, 
long, glabrous ; leaves 6-8 in. long, $14 lin. broad, stoutly linear- 
filiform, semi-terete, subacute, channelled upwards, glabrous ; head 
about 1} in. long, about 1 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 10-15. 
seriate, glabrous, ciliolate when young; outer ovate, subobtuse to 
obtuse ; inner oblong, equalling the flowers ; perianth-sheath 7 lin. 
long, dilated from the middle downwards, 3-kceled and 7-nerved 
below, glabrous, with the exception of the ciliate margins ; lip 14-13 
lin. long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled, pubescent at first, then glabrous ; teeth 
subequal, }—} lin. long; stamens all fertile, subsessile ; anthers 
linear, } lin. long; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, lanceolate, 
acute; ovary 2 lin. long, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; 
style 10-11 lin. long, sickle-shaped, subulate from the obliquely 
and narrowly lanceolate lower half, swollen at the base, then com- 
pressed, glabrous ; stigma 1 lin. long, imperceptibly passing into 
the style, obtuse. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Niven, Roxburgh. 
Coast Reaion : Caledon Div. ; Great Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3669 B! 
79. P.montana(K. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 213, name 
only); main stem subterranean; leaf-bearing and flowering branches 
up to 4 in. long, prostrate; leaves 13-3 in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear 
to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, long attenuated at the 
base, indistinctly veined, adpressedly hairy, soon glabrous ; head 
sessile, 2 in. long, about 14 in. in diam. surrounded by the upper 
leaves ; involucral bracts 6—7-seriate ; outer ovate, produced into 
long foliaceous appendages, silky-pubescent ; inner oblong or 
