660 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [Serrwric. 
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Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 121. P. procumbens, Linn. fil. Suppl. 116. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; mountains near Simons Town, Wright, 624! 
Pappe, 27! Fair in Herb. Bolus, 7948! False Bay, Roberts ! South-west of Slankop, 
Wolley-Dod, 1801! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Thunbery ! 
Thunb. Prodr. 25; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 506; Poir. Encycl. v. 657 ; 
3. §. flagellaris (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 127); stems 
decumbent, glabrous or sometimes pilose with a few scattered hairs ; 
leaves 2-4 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper 
half, sometimes slightly sheathing at the base, glabrous or rarely 
thinly pilose ; segments terete and bluntly or subacutely mucronate ;, 
heads very numerous, paniculate or corymbose on a-long and rather 
stout common terminal peduncle, usually much exserted from the 
leaves ; peduncle up to 2 in. long, bearing lanceolate-linear acute 
bracts 3-5 lin. long; primary branches up to ? in. long ; ultimate 
_ peduncles 1-2 lin. long, pubescent, with a solitary bract at the base 
of each ; floral bracts 34-54 lin. long, ovate or suborbicular with a 
long acute acumen, pubescent ; flowers erect in bud ; perianth-tube 
1}-2} lin. long, nearly glabrous, soon splitting to the base ; 
segments 43-5} lin. long, hirsute or villous with adpressed hairs ; 
limb 1} lin. long, narrowly oblong, subacute, villous : outside ;. 
anthers 1 lin. long, oblong-linear ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, 
linear or filiform ; ovary }—3 lin. long, globose, shortly villous with 
club-shaped hairs in the lower and slender ones in the upper part 5. 
style 43-5} lin. long, grooved, glabrous; stigma 1 lin. long, 
cylindric, subacute, gradually passing into the style or sometimes 
with a faint kink at the junction. Roem. d Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iii. 373; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 294. Protea flagellaris, Poir. 
Eneyel. Suppl. iv. 573. 
Sovurn Arrica: without locality, Thom! Grey! Niven! Bergius, 269, Mund, 
Ludwig. 7 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Muizenberg, Zeyher! Tabie Bay, Brown ! Simons 
Bay, Roxburgh! Wright, 625! MacGillivray, 673! Milne, 32! Bolus, 4686! Fish 
Hoek, Fair in Herb. Bolus, 7287 ! Elsje Peak, Wolley-Dod, 2865 ! 
4. S. elongata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 132); stems erect 
or ascending, glabrous ; leaves arranged in pseudowhorls at the base 
of the peduncle, 2-5 in. long, bipinnately or more divided in the 
upper } or 3, glabrous or the young ones sometimes villous ; ultimate 
segments cylindric, obtusely mucronate, about 4 lin. thick ; heads. 
numerous, paniculate or corymbose on a long common peduncle, far 
exserted from the leaves; peduncle 6-12 in. long, glabrous ; 
primary branches up to 21 in. long, mostly several-headed, with a 
lanceolate acuminate acute bract 2—4 lin. long at the base of each ;. 
ultimate peduncles 4—6 lin. long, glabrous, not or scarcely bracteate ; 
floral bracts purplish, about 3 lin. long and 14 lin. broad, with a 
suborbicular basal part and a thick midrib ending in a mucro, 
glabrous ; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 1} lin. long,. 
