190 Annals of the South African Museum. 



The first record from this locality ; the species has only been known 

 before from the Galedon, Swellendarn, and Uniondale Divisions. 



6. P. acaulis, Thunb., Diss. Prot., 56. 



Cape Eegion : Oliphant's Eiver Mts. behind Warm Baths ; 

 straggling, very common, flowers pale green ; flowers cerise, 6928. 



Also recorded from theTulbagh, Paarl, Cape, Caledon, Bredasdorp, 

 and Uitenhage Divisions. 



7. P. angustata, E. Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc, x., 90. 



Cape Eegion: Gift Berg Eange, 1-2,000 ft., procumbent plant, 

 bracts brown, 7414. 



This plant has the same habit as Leacospermwm hypophyllum, 

 E. Br., the stem trails on the ground and all the leaves point sky- 

 wards ; differs from any other Protea I have examined in that either 

 all the perianth segments are free below the limb or two free and 

 two fused below or all along. I took this to be a form of P. acaulis, 

 Thunb., but Dr. Stapf, to whom a specimen was sent, reports: "I 

 take it to be an anomalous state of P. angustata, as represented by 

 Schlechter's No. 9539, which differs from the rest in the scantier 

 tomentum of the perianth sheath." P. angustata, however, might 

 possibly be an extreme, narrow-leaved state of P. acaulis. (See 

 Fl. Cap., v., 604.) 



A procumbent shrub. Branches trailing on the ground, glabrous, 

 smooth, becoming rough when older. Leaves all turning skywards, 

 8-13 cm. long, 04-1-1 cm. broad, linear to lanceolate-linear, subacu- 

 minate, acute, attenuated at the base into a petiole, glabrous, with 

 thickened margins, and a distinct mid-rib when dry. Capitulum 

 subsessile at the end of the branches, slightly curved upwards, 3 cm. 

 long, about 3-3o cm. wide; receptacle 5 mm. high, conical. Invo- 

 literal bracts 12-18 seriate ; the outer ovate, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate ; 

 the inner more or less oblong and convex on the back ; the inner- 

 most spathulate, clawed, glabrous, ciliate, exceeding the flowers. 

 Perianth sheath T8 cm. long, bent, dilated, and 7-nerved and 

 3-keeled below, villous in the uppermost third, otherwise glabrous, 

 ciliate, the posticous (adaxial) usually splitting into 2, sometimes 3, 

 segments ; lip 5 mm. long, villous and slightly bearded. Stamens 

 all fertile ; anthers 4'5 mm. long, linear; apical glands 05 mm. long, 

 ovate, obtuse ; filament 1 mm. long, flattened, grooved. Ovary 

 3 mm. long, obovate-oblong in outline, covered with long reddish- 

 brown hairs, 6 mm. long. Style 2'5 cm. long, arcuate, tapering 

 upwards, laterally compressed below, glabrous ; stigma 3 mm. long, 



