608. PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [ Protea, 
long reddish-brown hairs; style 9 lin. long, strongly curved from 
the middle upwards, subulate upwards, distinctly compressed and 
slightly dilated in the lower half, glabrous, somewhat bulbously 
thickened at the base ; stigma 1 lin. long, oblong-linear, obtuse, 
furrowed, slightly swollen at the junction with the style. Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 355; Bot. Reg. t. 351; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 246. Protea abietina, Buek, ex Meisn. 1.c. 
Var. B, virgata (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 246); leaves 13~24 in. long, 
filiform. Plewranthe subulefolia, Knight, Prot. 50. Protea virgata, Andy, Bot. 
Hepat. 577, 
Sourn Arnica : without locality, Masson, ex Brown. Var. B, Kolbing, 8! 
Coast Recrion : Caledon Diy. ; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 
7703! near Palmiet River and Houw Hoek, Drége! Zeyher, 3677! Mund! 
Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal and the Zondereinde River, 
Niven! Burchell, 7607 ! 
83. P. cordata (Thunb. Diss. Prot. 59, t. v. fig. 1); stem 
underground, throwing up annual leaf-bearing erect simple shoots 
resembling pinnate leaves, with clusters of tlower-heads at their 
base, shoots glabrous ; leaves 3-5 on each shoot, 2-4} in. long, 
1}-4$ in. broad at the widest part, ovate-orbicular, obtuse, cordate 
at the base, palmately 8-10-veined, glabrous, with smooth or wavy 
margins ; heads contracted into a slender scaly stipes or peduncle, 
2 in. long, about 2 in. in diam. ; involucral bracts 10-seriate ; outer 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, finely pubescent and ciliate to 
glabrous ; inner oblong to obovate-oblong, glabrous with densely 
ciliolate margins to finely but densely and silky rufo-pubescent 
without, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 7 lin. long, dilated 
from above the middle downwards, strongly 3-keeled and sub- 
d-nerved, glabrous; lip 14 lin. long, 3-toothed, oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous ; teeth subequal, | lin. long, incurved ; filaments } lin. 
long, obovate, swollen; anthers elliptic-linear, curved, ? lin. 
long; apical glands 1 lin. long, ovate; ovary 3 lin. long, 
obovate, elliptic in outline, covered with long brown hairs ; 
style 7-9 lin, long, strongly curved above the middle, bulbously 
thickened at the base, then gradually tapering and subulate 
upwards ; stigma } lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, somewhat swollen 
at the junction with the style. Lam. Ill. i. 233 ; Thunb. Prodr, 28 ; 
Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 142; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 534; Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 289; Poir, Eneyel. v. 639; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. i. 515; 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 94; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iil. 354; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. viii. t. 377, ex Roem. & Schultes, le. ; 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 245. P. cordifolia, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 649 ; 
Reichenb. Fl. Exot. iv. 35, t. 274. 
Coast Reaion : Stellenbosch Diy. ; mountains of Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8190! 
Hottentots Holland Mountains, Thunbery, Zeyher, 3674! Caledon Div. ; Houw 
‘Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8061! hills near the Zondereinde River, Thunberg ! 
84. P. amplexicaulis (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 95); main 
stem underground, throwing up densely leafy simple or branched 
decumbent glabrous shoots up to 2 ft. long with usually clustered or 
