650 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Ovothamnus. 
VIII. OROTHAMNUS, Pappe. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth-tube short, 
pubescent ; segments 4, linear. Stamens 4; filaments fused with 
the perianth-segments ; anthers linear ; connective produced into a 
distinct apical gland. Hypogynous scales 4, free, linear. Ovary 
sessile; style erect, grooved, glabrous; stigma linear, grooved, 
obtuse ; ovule solitary. ' 
An erect shrub with long-pilose branches ; leaves ciliate ; flower-heads sessile, 
crowded at the extremities of the branches, many-flowered ; involucral bracts 
large, coloured, the outermost densely shaggy. 
DistriB, Species 1, confined to the South-Western part of Cape Colony. 
1. 0. Zeyheri (Pappe in Bot. Mag. t. 4357); an erect shrub 6-8 
ft. high; branches long-pilose ; leaves 1-2} in. long, }-1} mm. 
broad, slightly imbricate, obovate or oblanceolate-spathulate, with 
a very obtuse blackish apex, slightly narrowing at the base or 
rarely the upper leaves attenuated, distinctly 5—6-nerved, rigidly 
subcoriaceous, densely ciliate when young, otherwise glabrous or 
rarely scantily pilose ; heads sessile, 2-2} in. long, many-flowered, 
1-3 or rarely more at the extremity of a branch, drooping ; 
involucral-bracts rose-red and petaloid, 4-5-seriate, 1?-2 in. long, 
4-12 lin. broad, spathulate-oblong, rounded at the apex, many- 
nerved, membranous, pilose, ciliate, the outermost densely shaggy- 
pilose ; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, cylindric, pubescent ; segments 
lemon-yellow, 1} in. long, linear, pilose; limb 4 lin. long, linear, 
scantily pilose ; filaments swollen, fused with the perianth ; anthers 
33 lin. long, linear ; apical gland } lin. long, ovate, obtuse ; hypo- 
gynous scales § lin. long, linear, obtuse, brown ; style 1} in. long, 
grooved, glabrous; stigma 34 lin. long, sulcate, obtuse ; ovary 1 
lin, long, globose; fruit 3 lin. long, oblong, smooth and shining. 
Flor. des Ser. iv. t. 338. Mimetes Zeyheri, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 264. 
: — Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
689! 
IX. DIASTELLA, Knight. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth cylindric in bud 
with an ellipsoid limb ; segments free to or slightly connate at the 
base, villous, clearly differentiated into a slender claw and a short 
broader limb ; limb oblong or lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, villous 
or rarely glabrous. Stamens 4; anthers oblong, sessile, shorter than 
the limb and inserted at its base ; connective produced into a small 
apical appendage. Hypogynous scales absent. Ovary sessile, pubes- 
cent ; style filiform, straight, subpersistent, glabrous or pilose in the 
lower part; stigma cylindric, short, obtuse, epapillose, gradually 
