654 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Diastello. 
apex or very shortly mucronate, channelled or concave on the upper 
surface, glabrous or sometimes scantily pilose ; heads sessile, 25-4 
lin. long, solitary, terminal; involucral bracts 3—4-seriate, the 
outer small, ovate, obtuse or acuminate, shortly pubescent, the 
inner 2-3} lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, subacute, all ciliate ; 
perianth-segments free to the base, but often cohering for some time 
at the apex (limb), 24~3 lin. long, linear, pilose ; limb $ lin. long, 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous ; anthers sessile, } in. long, 
linear ; ovary } lin. long, oblong, pubescent; style 3 lin. long, 
filiform, terete, gradually tapering to the apex, glabrous ; stigma. 
1 Jin, long, cylindric, subobtuse. Leucadendron proteoides, Linn, Sp. 
Pl. ed. i. 91; Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 326, Deser. 
Pl. Cap. 24. Protea purpurea, Linn. Mant. 195; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 
28; Prodr. 26; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 518; Poir. Encycl. v. 654 ; Thunb. 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 129. P. salsaloides, Thunb. ea Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 266. Mimetes purpurea, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
111; Roem, & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 383 ; Meisn. l.c., incl. vars. ; O. 
Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iti. 278. M. homomalla, Reichenb. f. ex Meisn. 
lc. M. Buekii, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlviii. p. xciii. 
SoutrH Arrica: without locality, Nelson! Thunberg! Forster! Sparrman! 
Ecklon & Zeyher, 78! Thom! Sieber, 95! 189! Wahlberg ! 
Coast Rreeion: Malmesbury Div.; Paarde Berg, Masson! Paarl Div. ; 
between Mosselbanks River and Berg River, Burchell, 979! French Hoek, 
Schlechter, 9229! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Burchell, 217! Niven! Bowie! Drége! 
Ecklon, 529! Zeyher, 1477! Pappe! Bolus, 2905! Schlechter, 182! Wolley-Dod, 
617! Wahlberg! Schmieterlich, 185! Stellenbosch Diy.; near Eerste River, 
Bolus, 2905! between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8346! between 
Tiger Berg and Simons Berg, Drége ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
6. D. humifusa (Knight, Prot. 63) ; stems prostrate ; leaves } lin. 
broad, } in. long, smooth, flower-heads narrow. 
Coast Recton: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Roxburgh. 
This is probubly a mere form of D. ericefolia, Knight. 
X. SERRURIA, Salish. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth-segments free or 
slightly connate at the base, usually villous or hirsute, rarely 
glabrous, differentiated into a slender claw and a short subacute 
more or less oblong limb, the posticous limb often glabrous or more 
shortly pubescent than the three others. Stamens 4 ; anthers oblong, 
sessile, shorter than the limb and inserted at its base ; connective 
rarely slightly produced. Hypogynous scales present or absent, 
filiform. Ovary sessile or very shortly stipitate, villous or pubescent ; 
style slender, straight, glabrous or rarely pubescent in the lower 
part ; stigma subclavate or cylindric, epapillose, mostly slightly 
