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nervosa ; costa slip wr glabra. Capitulum sessile, 5 cm. longum, 
circiter 3°8 cm, latum. IJnvolucri bracteae 12-seriatae ; exteriores 
ovatae, apice vaaiae vel subacutae, glabrae vel minute pubescentes,. 
aliquando inferne ciliatae ; interiores oblongae, apice obtusae, 
concavae, glabrae, calycibus subaequales. Receptaculum paullo 
convexum; paleae ovatae, apice acutae. Calycis tubus 2°4 cm 
longus, basi dilatatus, tricarinatus et 7-nervis, glaber ; laminae 
ngae, iepentintens glabrae; laminae connexae apice 
3-dentatae ; dentes aequales, 1*3 mm. longi. Stamina sessilia, 6 mm. 
longa ; antherae lineares, apice glandulis 0°3 mm. longis ovatis 
obtusis instructae. varium 2 mm. longum, obovato-ellipticum, 
pilis longis vestitum; stylus 3°2 cm. ‘longus, linearis, unisulcatus, 
basi tumidus et 5-carinatus ; ; stigma 6 mm, longum, cylindricum, 
Erie ) rar basi sinuatum 
RICA. East L ondon BG between Gonubie and 
Gives a Dodd in Herb. Galpin, 7 
Mr. Galpin writes that “the plant was we HY cake ve 
Messrs. B. H. Dodd and John Wood, growing in open grass 
between the Gonubie and Quinera Rivers, about 14 miles from the 
sea . » It was only found in one small area where it is fairly 
Ba None of the plants are more than 12-14 in. high, 
Mr. Wood has been exploring in the East London Division for the 
last 15 years and neither he, Mr. Dodd nor I had ever come 
across this plant before, so that apparently—so far as the East 
he et ia is concerned—it is restricted to this one spot and: 
very ra 
1183. Protea Harmeri, Phillips [Proteacex-Proteeae]; verisimiliter 
P. scolymocephalae, Reichard, et P. cedromontanae, Schitr., affinis, ab 
illa foliis obtusis et ramis superne tomentosis, ab hac foliis 
brevioribus et calycis tubo superne angustiore differt. 
Frutex circiter 1 m. altus? Rami superne tomentosi, demum 
glabri. Folia 5-6 cm. longa, 3-3°5 mm, lata, linearia, apice obtusa, 
Soueiie Stamina omnia fertilia, is li 3°5 mm. longa; 
antherae lineares, apice glandulis 0°33 mm. longis ovatis obtusis 
instructae. Sguamae hypogynae 1 mm. longae, 0°33-0°5 mm. latae, 
oblongae, obtusae. Ovarium 2 mm. longum, oblongo-obovatum, 
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unisulcatus, inferne planus, cavus, glaber ; stigma 2°75 mm, 
Sourm Arrica. Worcester Div.: hill near Marjesfontein 
pe August 10th, 1905, 
18721 : A2 
