Diastella.| | PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). 653 
involucral bracts up to 4 lin. long, ?-14 lin. broad, the outer oblong, 
obtuse, pubescent, ciliate ; the intermediate ones ovate-lanceolate, 
the innermost linear, villous; perianth-segments connate at the 
base, soon becoming quite free, 3 lin. long, linear, attenuated to the 
base, villous with long hairs; limb # lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
villous ; anthers sessile, $ lin. long, oblong ; apical glands } lin. 
long, ovoid, obtuse; ovary 4 lin. long, very minutely pubescent ; 
style 34 lin. long, terete, filiform, gradually tapering to the apex, very 
minutely pubescent at the base, otherwise glabrous; stigma } lin. 
long, cylindric, obtuse. Protea myrtifolia, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 41 ; 
Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 141; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 530; Potr. Encycl. 
v. 641; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 137. Mimetes myrtifolia, var. B, 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 110; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 
382; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 265, 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Oldenburg! Auge! Thunberg! Masson ! 
Roxburgh! Brown ! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; by the river near Tulbagh (Roode Zand), 
Niven, 36! Ceres Road, Schlechter, 9085 ! 
4. D. parilis (Knight, Prot. 62) ; a small shrub 1-3 ft. high ; stem 
simple; branches pubescent or villous; leaves }—I1 in. long, 13- 
24 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse with an entire or 
trifid callous apex, a little narrowed to the base, coriaceous, some- 
times subdistinctly 3-5-nerved, more or less thinly villous ; heads 
sessile, 4-6 lin. long, $—} in. in diam. ; involucral bracts about } in. 
long, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the outer adpressed- 
pilose outside, the intermediate more glabrescent and densely ciliate ; 
innermost bracts linear, densely villous ; perianth-segments nearly 
free, 4 lin. long, linear-filiform, villous with long hairs ; limb # lin. 
long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, villous ; anthers sessile, } lin. long, 
elliptic ; apical gland } lin, long, ovate, subobtuse ; ovary § lin. 
long, oblong, pubescent ; style 4} lin. long, filiform, terete, gradually 
narrowed to the apex, pubescent at the base, persistent ; stigma 
1 lin. long, cylindric, subobtuse, furrowed ; fruit 3} lin. long, 
ellipsoid, glabrous, reticulate. Mimetes myrtifolia, var. a, R. Br. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 110; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iti. 382 ; 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 265. Leucospermum parile, Knight ex 
Loud. Encycl. Pl. 82. 
Sourn Arrica: Without locality, Brown! 
Coast REGion : Tulbagh Div. ; between New Kloof and Elands Kloof, Drége! 
Ceres Road, Schlechter, 9085! Great Winter Hoek, .Viven. 
R. Brown made two varieties of his Mimetes myrtifolia, both of which I have 
seen at the British Museum. His var. a is the same as Drége’s specimen, a small 
shrub 14 in, high, his var. 8 equals Diastella myrtifolia, Knight (Niven, 36), a 
bushy shrub 7-8 ft. high. These two plants are undoubtedly distinct species, and 
Knight recognised them os such.—E. P. P. 
5. D. ericefolia (Knight, Prot. 64); a shrub with decumbent 
pilose branches ; leaves 3-7 lin. long, ericoid, with a blunt callous 
