DESCRIPTION:--Bulb 2·7 cm. in diameter, globose, with papery tunics and thick wrinkled roots from the base. _Leaves_ contemporary with the flowers, about 3 to each bulb, spirally twisted, 12 cm. long, 4·5 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed to the base, glabrous. _Peduncle_ arising at side of the leaves, 9 cm. long, but sometimes longer, terete, glabrous. _Spathe_ valves 2·5 cm. long, acuminate from an ovate base, membranous. _Flowers_ usually solitary. _Pedicel_ 1·2 cm. long, terete, glabrous, shorter than the spathe-valves. _Perianth-tube_ 3 cm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, and curved at the base, widening to 1·3 cm. in diameter at the throat; lobes 2 cm. long, 9 mm. broad, obovate, obtuse, or the outer segments bluntly apiculate with a pendulous appendage, 5-nerved. _Stamens_ in 2 series: the lower with filaments 1·1 cm. long; the upper with filaments 8 mm. long, all filiform; anthers 3·5 mm. long, linear. _Ovary_ 7 mm. long, ellipsoid, glabrous; style 5·5 cm. long; lobes 5 mm. long, linear (National Herb. Pretoria 2634). * * * * * PLATE 99.--Fig. 1, perianth laid open; Fig. 2, perianth lobes; Fig. 3, upper portion of style. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: 100. K. A. Lansdell del] PLATE 100. PROTEA STOKOEI. _Cape Province._ PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEEAE. PROTEA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169. =Protea Stokoei=, _Phillips_, sp. nov. a _P. speciosa_, Linn., aristis calycis subequalibus, et pilis apice bractearum brevioribus differt. _Rami glabri_. _Folia_ 7-9 cm. longa, 3-4 cm. lata, obovata vel obovato-oblonga, glabra. _Capitulum_ sessile, 10-11 cm. longum, 5·5 cm. latum. _Involucri bracteae_ 9-10-seriatae; exteriores 1·5-2 cm. longae, ovato-oblongae, apice rotundatae, dense pubescentes, apice barbatae; interiores 9 cm. longae, 2·5 cm. latae, spathulatae, sericeo-pubescentes, infra glabrae, apice barbatae. _Receptaculum_ 2 cm. longum, conicum. _Perianthi tubus_ 5·5 cm. longus, basi dilatatus; laminae 1·2 cm. longae, villosae; apice triaristatae; aristae laterales 1·8 cm. longae, villosae, media 1·5 cm. longa. _Stamina_ 8 mm. longa, linearia, apice glandibus linearibus instructa. _Ovarium_ pilis longis vestitum; stylus 6 cm. longus; stigma 6 mm. longum.