DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 1·5 cm. in diameter at the base, ovoid, white. _Produced leaves_ 1 or 2, as long or slightly longer than the naked portion of the peduncle, with the free portion 1·8 to 2·2 cm. broad, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, with dark brown blotches on a dark green background, sometimes the spots absent, convolute and clasping the peduncle for the greater portion of its length. _Peduncle_ with maroon-coloured spots on a yellowish background; in concolorus leaves peduncle almost uniformly coloured. _Inflorescence_ 6-7-flowered. _Bracts_ forming small pockets from which the flowers arise. _Pedicels_ 3 mm. long. _Outer perianth-segments_ O·5 cm. shorter than the inner, slightly gibbous at the base, thickly speckled with red spots on a yellowish background; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse. _Stigma_ capitulate. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2901.) PLATE 184.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 2, single flower; Fig. 3, anthers; Fig. 4, pistil. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 185.] PLATE 185. PROTEA MUNDII. _Cape Province._ PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE. _Protea_, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169. * * * * * =Protea Mundii=, _Klotz in Otto and Dietr. Garten-Zeit._ 1838, 113; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 579. * * * * * The species of _Protea_ figured on the accompanying Plate represents a member of the section _Exertae_ of the genus. This section comprises four species which may be readily recognised by the fact that in the mature head the perianth is spirally coiled in the open flowers, leaving the style exserted. _Protea Mundii_ is closely related to another species found in the same localities, viz. _P. lacticolor_, Salisb., and the two were confused by E. Meyer, who named them both _P. penicillata_. As will be seen from the illustration, the stigma is very distinctly capitate at the apex, and as this character is unique in the genus the species can be easily recognised. The plant is found in the mountains round Worcester, extends into the George, Knysna and Humansdorp Districts, and then passes through Uitenhage and Stutterheim into the Transkei. The specimens were collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., in the George District in July 1925.