Protea.] PROTEACE® (Phillips & Stapf). 609 
approximate flower-heads at their bases, rarely higher up; leaves 
spreading horizontally, 1-2} in. long, $-14 in. broad at the widest 
part, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acute, more or less amplexicaul at the 
base, distinctly palmately 5-8-veined, glabrous, with undulating 
often red margins ; heads lateral, suddenly contracted into a short 
scaly stipes or peduncle, 2 in. long, about 2 in. in diam. ; young 
heads spherical, becoming ovoid with age; involucral bracts 
10-12-seriate, more or less finely pubescent to (the inner) densely 
tomentose, indumentum rufous ; outer ovate, obtuse ; inner oblong 
to spathulate or obovate-oblong, spreading in the adult head ; 
perianth-sheath 7 lin. long, broad and much dilated, 3-keeled and 
5-7-nerved below, glabrous ; lip 2} lin. long, 3-toothed, glabrous ; 
teeth subequal } lin. long; filaments } lin. long, swollen ; anthers 
oblong-linear, 1} lin. long ; apical glands } lin. long, ovate, sub- 
acute; ovary 1? lin. long, oblong, covered with long reddish-yellow 
hairs ; style 9 lin. long, more or less falcate, somewhat thickened 
and widened at the base, then gradually tapering and subulate 
upwards, curved, glabrous ; stigma 2 lin. long, subobtuse, gradually 
passing into the style; fruit bottle-shaped, 5 lin. long. Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr, xiv. 246. P. repens, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 453 (not of 
Thunb. or Linn.). Erodendrum amplexicaule, Salish. Parad. t. 67. 
Pleuranthe amplexicaulis, Knight, Prot. 51. 
Souru AFrica: without locality, Labillardiere! Thom! Ludwig! Bowie ! 
Coast Rearon: Worcester Diy. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Caledon Div. ; 
Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Niven, 14! Zeyher, 3675! Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 
7705! 
Imperfectly known species. 
85. P. acuminata (Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1694); an erect plant ; 
branches twiggy ; leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, acute, flat, veiny 
above ; head terminal ; inner involucral bracts obtuse, concave above, 
with the margins black-pubescent ; styles curved. Poir. Encyel. 
Suppl. iv. 562; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 351 ; Mant. 265. 
Sourn Arrica: Known only from the figure in the Botanical Magazine and 
probably allied to ?. canaliculata. 
P. arborea, Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 113. 
P. arborescens, Hort. ex Steud. Nomencel. ed. 2, ii. 399. 
P. asplenifolia, Link, 1.c. 
P. brassicefolia, Hort. éx Steud. Lc. 
P. carinata, Hort. Breit. ex Schult. Mant. iii. 266. 
P. carnosa, Hort. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. iii. 356. 
P. cerifera, Hort. ex Roem. & Schult, Lc. 
P. ciliaris, Hort. ex Roem. & Schult. |.c. 
P. ciliata, Breit. Hort. Breit. 380; Schult. Mant. iii. 266. 
P. concolor, Hort, ex Steud. Nomenel. ed. 2, ii. 399. 
P. declinata, Hort. ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 247. 
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