652 PROTEACEH (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [ Diastella. 
Diss. Prot. 43, partly; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 140. P. divaricata, 
Willd. ea Meisn. lc. P. villosa, Jacq. ex Meisn. L.c. 
Sovra Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg! Thunberg (var. 8 of his. 
Herbarium) ! Groendahl ! Sparrman ! Robertson! Herb. Forsyth! & Herb. Salisbury, 
at Kew! 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8125! 
between Houw Hoek and Palmiet River, Burchell, 8169 ! 
2. D. serpyllifolia (Knight, Prot. 62); a decumbent shrub, 3-4 
ft. high; branches pilose; leaves 2-9 lin. long, 14-3 lin. broad, 
suborbicular, elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, rounded or 
narrowed to the base, flat, pilose, ciliate; heads sessile, 3-5 lin. 
long, many-flowered, terminal, solitary or very rarely 3-nate at the. 
ends of the branches ; involucral bracts 2—3-seriate, 24-5 lin. long, 
oblong, linear to ovate, obtuse or acuminate, pubescent, ciliate ; 
perianth-segments 23-34 lin. long, linear, villous; limb 3—? lin. 
long, oblong-linear, subobtuse, shortly villous ; anthers subsessile, 
} lin. long ; filament fused with the perianth ; apical gland lanceolate, 
yo—} lin. long ; ovary 4-} lin. long, pubescent ; style 23-3} lin. long, 
filiform, pubescent in the lower half or near the base ; stigma }—} lin. 
long, cylindric, obtuse. D. vacciniifolia, Knight, Prot. 63. Leuca- 
dendron divaricatum, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 324 ; 
Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 19. Protea divaricata, Linn. Mant. 194 ; 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 58; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 142; Lam. Iil. 
i, 235; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 533; Poir. Encyel. v. 643; Thunb. Fi. 
Cap. ed. Schultes, 140. Mimetes divaricata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 111; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 383; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 265. M. parviflora, Klotzschin Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap- 
und Natal. 141; Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 77. M. intermedia, Buek 
ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 265. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Nelson! Masson! Thunberg! Brown! Mund! 
Gueinzius ! 
Coast REGION: Cape Div.; mountains near Kalk Bay, Bolus, 2906! near Cape 
Town, Niven, 45! Bolus! Klaver Vley, Wolley-Dod, 300! near Simons Town, Wright! 
Jameson! Pappe! Milne, 187! MacGillivray, 635! Bolus in Herb. Norm, Aust.- 
Afr. 303 ! Schlechter, 312! Red Hill, Wolley-Dod, 1833! Jameson! Smitswinkel Bay, 
Bolus in Herb, Norm, Austr.-Afr, 302! Wolley-Dod, 2737! Phillips, 519! False 
Bay, Robertson! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Pappe ! Zeyher, 3694! Galpin, 4477 ! 
_ This appears to be an extremely variable species. In Zeyher, 3694 (Mimetes 
intermedia, Buek), the leaves are oblong and attenuated at the base and the involucral 
bracts very acuminate, whilst in a specimen of typical Mimetes divaricata, R. Br. 
( Wolley-Dod, 1833), the leaves are suborbicular, rounded at the base and the 
involucral bracts oblong and very obtuse. Between these two forms, however, 
almost every intermediate stage occurs.—E. P. P. 
3. D. myrtifolia (Knight, Prot. 63) ; a bushy shrub, 7-8 ft. high ; 
branches shortly and thinly villous; leaves }—-1 in. long, 1—2 lin. 
broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, with a broad very obtuse callus 
at the apex, narrowed to the base, entire or rarely bifid, rigidly © 
coriaceous, pilose ; heads sessile, 4—6 lin. long, about 5 lin. in diam. ; 
