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bus scabridis, juvenilia apice ciliata; fiores numerosi, 2 — 6 aggregati, 
- breves laterales ramulos terminantes; pedunculi per breves puberuli 3- 
bracteati; bracteae calyci adpressae pubescentes ciliatae, tertia majore, 
0-5 mm. longa; calyx 4-angulatus, 4-lobus, 1 mm. longus, lobis tubo 
aequilongis; corolla calycem parum excedens, tubulata glabra, 0-5 mm. 
diam., lobis erectis obtusis brevibus; stamina exserta, filanientis fili- 
formibus, 2 mm. longis, antheris mox deciduis, subterminalibus muticis, 
1 mm. longis, 0-5 mm. latis; ovarium obovatum compressum 2-loculatum, 
vel abortione 1-loculatum, dimidio superiore puberulum, 1 mm. longum, 
stylo exserto filiformi, 2-5 mm. longo, stigmate infundibuliformi, circa 
0-4 mm. diametro. 
Cape l 3 rovince: South-Western Region; Uniondale Div., summit of the 
pass between Avontuur and Uniondale, alt. 3500 ft., fl. March 1922, 
II. G. Fourcade, 2093 a. 
Alhed to A. eriocephalus, N. E. Br., but differs in being more rigid and 
erect in its habit, having a less hairy calyx and glabrous filaments. 
A. Stokoei, L. Guthrie. Erectus subrigidus, 30 — 45 cm. altus, ramulis nurne- 
rosis pubescentibus pilosisque; foha patentia 3-nata lineari-lanceolata 
obtusa, supra leviter convexa vel plana, infra convexa, late sulcata, 
scabrida puberula, parce pilosa, juvenilia glanduloso-ciliata, cum petiolo 
5 mm. longa, circa 1 mm. lata; fiores saepius 8, aggregati, ramulos termi- 
nantes; pedunculi pilosi 3-bracteati, 1 mm. longi; bracteae approximatae, 
superiores adpressae parvae, tertia ad 2 mm. longa; calyx fere ad basin 
partitus, 2 mm. longus, lobis lineari-lanceolatis, extus pilis albis vestitis, 
intus glanduliferis viscidisque; corolla tubulata inflata, primum faucibus 
leviter contracta, glabra rosea, 3 mm. longa, segmentis erectis, demurn 
(antheris delapsis) conniventibus, obtusis, circa 0-5 mm. longis latisque; 
stamina exserta, filamentis glabris, 3 mm. longis, antheris linearibus 
muticis deciduis, 2 mm. longis, poro circa 0-4 mm. longo; ovarium 1 mm. 
longum, saepius 2-loculatum, stylo gracili, 5 mm. longo, stigmate simplici. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Hottentotsholland 
Mountains, fl. Dec. 1923, T. P. Stokoe (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17523). 
Allied to A. hirsutus, KL, but differs in having 3-nate and spreading 
leaves, larger and glandular calyx-segments, and a more inflated corolla. 
Protea oleracea, L. Guthrie (Proteaceae-Proteeae). Primum humilis, caule 
5 — 10 cm. alto, simplici, deinde post anthesin 1 — 2-ramoso, ramis circa 
10 cm. longis, demum crebre ramoso, ad 1 met. alto; folia densa difformia, 
majora persistentia erecta, in capitulum incurva, obovato-oblonga obtusa 
saepius apiculata, gradatim angustata in petiolum brevissimum cras- 
sumque, utrinque lanato-pubescentia, glabrescentia, marginibus leviter 
undulata, glauca coriacea, prominenter nervata, 14 — 30 cm. longa, 
5 — 10 cm. lata, cetera minora pauciora interspersa, mox brunnea mar- 
cescentiaque, erecta subsessilia, circa 2-5 cm. longa, 1-3 cm. lata, vel 
