Serruria. | PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). 655 
longitudinally grooved, gradually tapering into the style. Ovule 1, 
laterally attached in the middle or slightly above. Nut ovoid or 
subglobose, sometimes beaked by the persistent style-base. 
Leafy shrubs; branches erect or prostrate ; leaves usually crowded, often much 
dissected into cylindric acute segments, rarely entire; flower-heads in terminal 
corymbs or panicles on a common peduncle or solitary on simple axillary and 
terminal peduncles ; heads often with a small involucre of barren bracts ; floral 
bracts mostly villous, usually shorter than the flowers; receptacle conical or 
subglobose, mostly hairy, 
Distris. About 50 species, confined to the South-Western region. 
Section 1. PxLerocepHaLa. Flower-heads racemose, paniculate or corymbose 
on a common peduncle, 
Perianth-limb glabrous ; stigma ovoid-globuse ... ... (1) meisneriana. 
Perianth-limb hairy (nearly glabrous in 14, Burmannii) ; 
stigma cylindric or subclavate, rarely ellipsoid : 
Heads supported by a long common peduncle, usually 
much exserted from the leaves : 
Stems procumbent; leaves evenly distributed and 
given off more or less at right angles; perianth 
shortly pubescent or long-villous: 
Perianth very shortly pubescent ... ant ... (2) hyemailis. 
Perianth densely villous with rather coarse long 
haiti x. eae 266 : a ... (8) flagellaris. 
Stems erect; leaves evenly arranged or in pseudo- 
whorls, always given off at an acute angle ; 
perianth shortly villous with rather closely ad- 
pressed hairs : 
Leaves clustered in pseudo-whorls around the base 
of the peduncle ; floral bracts glabrous ... (4) elongata. 
Leaves more or less evenly distributed along the 
stems; floral bracts pubescent or almost 
villous... vee ta en fu --- (5) Leipoldtii. 
Heads supported by a very short common peduncle, 
always more or less enclosed or clasped by the 
leaves : 
*Ultimate peduncles with a solitary bract at the 
base or one or two towards the apex, otherwise 
ebracteate : 
Leaves large and stout, ultimate segments nearly 
3 lin. thick; petiole nearly 1 lin. broad; 
primary branches of the inflorescence rather 
elongated see tH is ae :.. (6) anethifolia. 
Leaves usually small, segments about } lin. 
(rarely 4) thick; petiole almost filifornt; 
primary branches of the inflorescence mostly 
rather short : 
Mature leaves glabrous or rarely thinly and 
spreadingly pilose : 
Bracts and ultimate peduncles glabrous, the 
former strongly ribbed... aah ... (7) Bolusii. 
Bracts and ultimate peduncles more or less 
hairy, the former not or only slightly 
ribbed : 
+Perianth-limb hirsute or villous : 
Heads 5-8-flowered : 
