outline, glabrous; style 1·1cm. long, cylindric; lobes 2mm. long, flat on the inner face, convex on the back, truncate and shortly bristly at the apex. PLATE 83.--Fig. 1, ray-flower; Fig. 2, disc-flower; Fig. 3, upper portion of style with lobes; Figs. 4, 5, involucral bracts; Fig. 6, fruit. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: _84._ S. Gower del] PLATE 84. PROTEA COMPACTA. _Cape Province._ PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEEAE PROTEA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169. =Protea compacta=, _R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc._ vol. x. 76; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 570. We have previously figured two species of _Protea_ belonging to different sections of the genus. On Plate 22 will be found _P. abyssinica_ (§ _Lasiocephalae_) with a large head not contracted into a scaly peduncle at the base, while on Plate 76 we figured _P. recondita_ (§ _Leiocephalae_) with a smaller head and a scaly peduncle. Our present plant belongs to quite a separate section (_Ligulatae_), which is characterised by the inner involucral bracts being produced into a long claw with an oblong or oblanceolate limb. _Protea compacta_ is a common plant in some parts of the Cape Province, especially in the Caledon Division, but is also found in parts of the Cape and Stellenbosch Divisions, and a single specimen, collected by Zeyher, has been recorded from the van Staden’s Mountains. In its natural habitat it is a bush 4-6 ft. high with brilliant pink bracts partly surrounded by the uppermost leaves, and in many localities the flowering bush is one of the features of the landscape. Like many other species of _Protea_ in the Cape Province, this species is visited by a large coleopterous beetle. Our plant was collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., at Hawston in the Caledon Division, where it is found growing on white sandy soil. The species has been established in cultivation at the National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch, and is doing remarkably well there. Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria (No. 2577).