504 PROTEACE& (Stapf). 
leaves, surrounded by large spathulate-oblong, obtuse, coloured 
invelucral bracts. 
IX. Diastella.— Heads small, terminal and solitary, surrounded by small 
inconspicuous bracts. 
tt Leaves pinnately or bipinnately divided, very rarely entire and then 
usually terete or narrowly linear. 
X. Serruria.—Jnvolucral bracts rarely conspicuous and coloured, or if so 
then glabrous. 
++ Flowers in 1-flowered or typically few- (2-4-, rarely up to 9-) flowered 
heads congested in terminal spikes, racemes or head-like glomerules, 
never in the axils of the upper leaves. 
{ Leaves undivided. 
§ Involucre calycoid, more or less bilabiate, toothed. Inflorescence 
cylindric, 
XI. Spatalla.—Corolla slightly zygomorphic, the posticous (adaxial) lobe 
being larger and more densely villous or bearded than the others. 
Ovary somewhat oblique ; stigma obliquely discoid. 
XII. Spatallopsis.—Corolla actinomorphic. Ovary not oblique; stigma 
obliquely capitate. 
§§ Involucre of as many free bracts as flowers. Inflorescence globose. 
XIII. Sorocephalus.—Corolla actinomorphic. Ovary not oblique ; style con- 
stricted above the ovary ; stigma oblong. 
tt Leaves all pinnately divided or the upper undivided, Involucral bracts 
imbricate, the two lateral exterior. 
XIV. Nivenia.—Inflorescence spicate or globose ; partial heads with as many 
involucral bracts as there are flowers. Stigma clavate to capitate. 
I. BRABEIUM, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, or polygamous by abortion, actinomorphic. 
Perianth cylindric in bud with a globose limb; segments 4, on 
flowering separating to the base, spathulate-linear, revolute. 
Stamens slightly shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments 
linear, from the base of the perianth-segments; anthers linear- 
oblong ; connective produced into a small apical gland. Hypogynous 
disc annular. Ovary sessile, long-hairy ; style terete, clavate above, 
glabrous, subpersistent ; stigma smal], terminal. Ovules 2, pendu- 
lous, orthotropous. Fruit a drupe, densely velvety ; exocarp corky, 
traversed by fibres ; endocarp woody. Seed solitary ; embryo with 
hard thick equal cotyledons. 
A small tree or shrub; leaves in whorls of 6, shortly petioled, undivided, 
serrate, coriaceous; flowers pedicelled, 2-nate in the axils of early deciduous 
bracts, arranged in dense spike-like axillary racemes. 
Distris. Species 1, confined to the Western portion of Cape Colony. 
1. B. stellatifolium (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, 121); a small tree or 
shrub, 8-10 ft. high ; young tops purplish ; branches fulvous or 
rufous-tomentose when young, at length glabrescent or quite 
