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glabrous at the base ; lobes 1 mm. long, oblong, obtuse. Ovary 

 2 mm. long, elliptic in outline, villous ; style 4 mm. long, filiform, 

 very gradually widening above ; stigma suboblique. Young fruit 

 4 mm. long, elliptic in outline, villous. 



Cape Division : Kraaifontein, about 19 miles from Cape Town, 

 Phillips in Herb. Mus. Austro-Afric. 3789. May, 1912. 



PEOTEA, B. Br. 

 Protea ligulcefolia (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 346). 



Branches finely pubescent. Leaves 10-13-5 cm. long, 1-2-1-3 cm. 

 wide, narrow-strap-shaped, obtuse, glabrous, narrowed at the base, 

 in the dry specimen the mid-rib is prominent above and beneath. 

 Gapitulum 11-12 cm. long, about 8 cm. in diameter. Involucral- 

 bracts 10-12-seriate, those at the very base tomentose ; outer 

 oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, sometimes finely ciliate ; inner oblong 

 or lanceolate-oblong above, subacuminate, obtuse, long clawed, silky 

 pubescent, long-ciliate, exceeding the flowers. Receptacle convex. 

 Perianth 10 cm. long ; perianth-sheath 6-5 cm. long, slightly dilated 

 3 -keeled and 7-nerved below, pubescent, becoming glabrous at the 

 base ; lip 3*5 cm. long, villous, 3-awned ; lateral awns 2-5 cm. long, 

 linear, long-villous, lower hairs whitish, upper dark-purple. Fertile 

 stamens 3 ; anthers 6 mm. long, linear ; apical glands 1 mm. long, 

 ovate, subacuminate, subacute; barren stamen 6 mm. long, acute; 

 filament 2-5 mm. long, filiform. Ovary 3 mm. long, oblong in 

 outline, covered with reddish-brown hairs ; style 6 cm. long, com- 

 pressed, with a swelling at the base, pubescent; stigma 6 mm. 

 long, flat on one side, ribbed and strongly convex on the other, 

 conspicuously kneed and curved at the junction with the style. 



The specimen agrees very well with the figure in Andrew's 

 Botanists' Eepository, the flower-head being slightly convex and the 

 awns covered with reddish-purple hairs. A dried specimen is pre- 

 served in the herbarium of Mr. N. S. Pillans, who also collected 

 a fresh specimen near Sir Lowry's Pass in August, 1912. 



Protea cynaroides, Linn., var. albi flora, Phillips, var. now 

 Involucri bracteae albas. 



Branches long, subflexuous, terete, glabrous, reddish. Leaves 

 petioled; blade 8-10 cm. long, 4-6"8 cm. broad, broadly elliptic, 

 obtuse, cuneate at the base, distinctly but not prominently veined, 

 glabrous, punctate, with margins sometimes reddish ; petiole 

 4*5-8 cm. long, terete, green or reddish, with a swollen reddish 



