606 PROTEACEH (Phillips & Stapf). | Protea. 
spathulate-oblong, silky-pubescent on the back, ciliate, equalling 
the flowers; perianth-sheath 11 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled and 
5~7T-nerved below, membranous, rufo-pubescent to the middle, 
glabrous at the very base ; lip 5 lin. long, 3-awned, glabrous below, 
excepting on the ciliate margin, then increasingly pubescent and 
ending in a woolly tuft; lateral awns 2 lin. long, linear, woolly ; 
median awn | lin. long, linear, woolly ; stamens all fertile ; 
filaments } lin. long, swollen; anthers linear, 24 lin. long; apical 
glands } lin. long, ovate, subacute; ovary 2 lin. long, oblong- 
elliptic, covered with long reddish-brown hairs ; style 11 lin. long, 
faleate, narrowing from the base upwards, flattened above, glabrous ; 
stigma 2} lin. long, obtuse, finely channelled, almost imperceptibly 
passing into the style. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 240. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; on the Great Zwartberg Range, near Vrolykheid, 
Drege ! , 
80. P. humiflora (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 532); a shrub with loosely 
and diffusely procumbent glabrous branches to over 1} ft. long ; leaves 
spreading, 2-3} in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, not or very 
slightly attenuated at the base, often shortly decurrent, indistinctly 
veined, but with a distinct midrib, green, glabrous; heads solitary 
at the bases of branches, often contracted into a short stipes, up 
to over 1} in, long, and 2 in. in diam.; receptacle 9 lin. high, 
conical; pales ovate, acute ; involucral bracts about 7-seriate, 
densely hirsute; outer ovate, obtuse, finely and adpressedly 
pubescent to glabrous; inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, rufo- 
pubescent to silky-tomentose, equalling the flowers or slightly shorter ; 
perianth-sheath up to 7 lin. long, much dilated, from above the 
middle downwards, 3-keeled and 7-nerved at the base, thinly 
membranous from below, glabrous; lip 2 lin. long, 3-toothed, 
cylindric, glabrous, excepting at the fugaciously hairy tips, ciliate ; 
teeth subequal, } lin. long; stamens subsessile; anthers linear, 
1 lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, swollen on the 
inner face; style 9 lin. long, strongly curved to sickle-shaped, 
compressed in the lower half, bulbously thickened at the base, 
glabrous ; stigma 1} lin. long, obtuse, slightly bent at the junction 
with the style ; young fruit 4 lin. long, cylindric, covered with long 
brown hairs. P. humiflorens, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol, Suppl. 7 (name 
only)? ea Meisn. P. humilis, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 95 3 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 463 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 246, partly. 
P. humifusa, Hort. ex Meisn. lc. Pleuranthe glastiflora, Knight, 
Prot. 50. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Masson! Drummond ! 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Niven. Riversdale 
Div. ; between Great Valsch River and Zoetemelks River and hills near Zoetemelks 
River, Burchell, 6561! 67591 George Div. ; Montague Pass, Marloth in Herb. 
MacOwan, 3405! 
In Andrews’ figure, which represents an ‘‘ entire plant, just as we found it~ 
growing in the conservatory of G. Hibbert,” 4 or 5 flower-heads are shown, each 
springing apparently from the base of a leafy branch and all clustered together 
