502 LAURINE& (Stapf). [ Cassytha. 
discoloured and often more or less curled; leaf-scales ovate, sub- 
obtuse, up to 14 lin. long, very slightly produced downwards at the 
obtuse base, loosely hairy ; inflorescences peduncled, capitate, 
3-5-flowered, rarely reduced to a single flower, rusty-tomentose ; 
peduncles solitary or in fascicles of 2-4, up to 3 lin. long, with 
2 lateral scale-leaves at the very base, resembling the subtending 
scale-leaf, but usually more elliptic and more obtuse ; bracts and 
bracteoles broad-ovate to rotundate, 4-1 lin. long, subhyaline, 
rusty-pubescent and ciliate; perianth greenish, at the time of 
flowering 1} lin. long; receptacle rusty-pubescent ; segments sub- 
hyaline, outer rotundate or rotundate-ovate, $—? lin. long, ciliate; 
otherwise glabrous, inner ovate-oblong, when flattened out, subobtuse 
or, owing to the more or less inflexed sides, lanceolate-triangular and 
almost acute, 1} lin. long, glabrous without, minutely pubescent 
within, 3-nerved ; stamens of the first 3 whorls fertile; anthers 
ovate ; filaments broad-linear, those of the first whorl ciliate, of the 
second very short, of the fourth reduced to. triangular thick 
staminodes. Fruit up to 3 lin. in diam. 0. rubiginosa, E. Meyer in 
Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 154, 171; name only. C. pubescens, 
E. Meyer, l.c. 154, not of R. Br. 
Eastern Recion: Pondoland; on a rocky hill by the Umtentu River and 
between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drége! various localities, 
Bachmann, 515! 516! 517! 
OrpER CXVII. PROTEACE. 
(By J. Hutcuinson, E, P. Puitxips and O. Starr.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual and diccious, rarely 
polygamous. Perianth corolline, simple, inferior, tetramerous, 
actinomorphic or more or less zygomorphic, valvate, usually tubular 
in bud, with a more or less differentiated widened limb, variously 
divided when opening. Stamens 4, opposite the perianth-segments ; 
filaments usually more or less adnate to the perianth-segments, 
rarely free ; anthers free, erect, with introrse parallel thece, very 
rarely laterally cohering. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with or 
without hypogynous scales or an annular or cupular dise at the 
base, l-celled, sometimes oblique or excentric; style terminal, 
short or more often long; stigma small. Ovules numerous and 
biseriate or few or only 1, pendulous and orthotropous or laterally 
attached and amphitropous or anatropous; micropyle always 
inferior. Fruita nut, drupe, follicle or capsule. Seeds several or 
2 or 1, often compressed and winged; testa thin or coriaceous ; 
albumen 0; embryo with 2 equal or unequal, compressed or thick, 
and fleshy cotyledons, and a short radicle, rarely with more than 
2 cotyledons. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely perennial herbs. Leaves spirally wrinean, rarely 
verticillate or opposite, entire or variously and sometimes decompoundly divided, 
