Serruria. | PROTEACEZ (Phillips & Hutchinson). 659 
1. 8. meisneriana (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 108); stems 
‘erect; branches terete, glabrous or minutely pubescent ; leaves 
15-3} in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper ? or 2; ultimate 
segments }#-1} in. long, cylindric, acutely or subacutely mucronate, 
narrowly channelled on the upper surface, glabrous ; heads 
numerous, corymbose on a long common peduncle, exserted from 
the leaves ; peduncle 14-5 in. long, glabrous, bearing a few subulate 
-or lanceolate acuminate acute bracts about 24 lin. long; primary 
branches up to ? in. long; ultimate peduncles 3-5 lin. long, with a 
solitary bract at the base of each; floral bracts 34-4} lin. long, 
broadly ovate or suborbicular, with a broad membranous margin 
-and a broad thick keel which passes into an abrupt short acumen ; 
flowers straight in bud, with an ellipsoid limb; perianth-tube 2 lin. 
long, glabrous; segments 3-4 lin. long, linear-spathulate, very 
sparingly and shortly setulose ; limb 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate- 
-elliptic, obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous; anthers sessile, ellipsoid, 
subacute; ovary }$—} lin. long, ellipsoid, densely villous; style 
23-4 lin. long, subquadrangular, glabrous; stigma } lin. long, 
-ellipsoid-globose, subobtuse, grooved. S. glaberrima, var. pinnata, 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 284. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; mountains near Constantia, Schlechter, 542. 
‘Caledon Div. ; Babylons Tower Mountains, Zeyher, 3700! Ecklon & Zeyher, 
14! mountains between Houw Hoek and Bot River, Pappe! mountains near Bot 
River, Schlechter, 9442! 
‘On Zeyher’s sheet of 3700 in the Stockholm Herbarium there are two species, 
the middle and larger specimen being the true plant, whilst the remaining smaller 
examples on each side of it are S. flagellifolia, Knight ; they probably belong to 
his 3701 which is that species. 
2. S. hyemalis (Knight, Prot. 84) ; stems prostrate, glabrous ; 
leaves 2-5 in. long, entire or 2-3-furcate ; segments cylindric, 
acutely mucronate, with a narrow groove on the upper surface, 
glabrous ; heads few, crowded at the apex of a common terminal 
peduncle, a little exserted from the leaves; peduncle ?-2 in. long, 
slender, glabrous, bearing lanceolate-linear acute bracts 14-2 lin. 
long ; ultimate peduncles 1-1} lin. long, stout, shortly pubescent ; 
floral bracts up to 44 lin. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, glabrous 
‘or very shortly and scantily pubescent ; flowers straight in bud ; 
perianth-tube 24 lin. long, slightly inflated, ribbed, minutely 
pubescent ; segments 6 lin. long, linear, very shortly adpressed- 
‘pubescent ; limb 14 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, sparingly 
-adpressed-pubescent outside ; anthers 1} lin. long, linear ; ovary 
3 lin. long, densely villous ; style 64 lin. long, linear, 4-angled, 
glabrous ; stigma purple, 14 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, furrowed, 
very slightly bent at the junction with the style. S$. decumbens, 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 126; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iti. 372; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 294. Protea decumbens, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 14, t. 1; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 136 ; Lam. Ill. i. 239 ; 
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