Serruria.|  PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). 661 
glabrous, soon splitting to the base; segments 31-4 lin. long, 
spathulate-linear, shortly adpressed-villous ; limb 1 lin. long, 
narrowly oblong, subacute, villous; anthers } lin. long, linear ; 
ovary 4 lin. long, villous; style 34 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, oblong or subclavate, obtuse, slightly swollen at 
the junction with the style; fruit 1 lin. long, more or less ellipsoid, 
shortly beaked and stipitate, rusty-setose. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. iii. 377; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 297. 8S. crithmifolia, 
Knight, Prot. 83; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 132. Leucadendron 
elongatum, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 327 ; Berg. Descr. 
Pl. Cap. 27. Protea glomerata, Thunb. Diss, Prot. 18 ; Willd. Sp. 
Pl. i. 509. P. thyrsoides, Lam, Iil. i. 2402; Poir. Encyel. v. 660% 
P. helvola, Willd. ex Meisn. l.c. name only. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Niven! Ludwig! 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Alexanders Hoek, Schlechter, 5130; Paarl 
Div. ; mountains around French Hoek, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 912! 
Caledon Div.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3702! Houw Hoek, 
Schlechter, 5493! 5510! Baviaans Kloof near Genadendaal, Burchell, 7709! 7831. 
Genadendaal, Pappe! mountains near Hermanus, Galpin, 4473! Zwart Berg, 
Pappe! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Schlechter, 9648! Bolus, 8590! 
5. 8. Leipoldtii (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; a small shrub less than 
1 ft. high ; branches erect, glabrous ; leaves 24-4 in. long, simple or 
pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous ; 
segments very acutely mucronate, slightly furrowed on the upper 
surface, about } lin. thick ; heads few in a corymbose raceme on a 
long slender terminal common peduncle, exserted from the leaves ; 
peduncle 24-3 in. long, glabrous; ultimate peduncles up to 1} in. long, 
adpressed-pubescent towards the apex, with a discoid swelling and 
an articulation where it falls off at the base; bracts at the base of 
each peduncle about 2 lin. long, glabrous; floral bracts 2}-3 in. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subacute, with a flat glandular 
surface at the apex, recurved, pubescent or tomentose or the outer 
nearly glabrous ; perianth-tube 1} lin. long, soon splitting to the 
base, glabrous; segments 5 lin. long, spathulate-linear, adpressed- 
tomentose ; limb 1 lin. long, elliptic, subacute, adpressed-tomentose ; 
anthers # lin. long ; ovary 1 lin. long, ellipsoid, villous ; style 3} lin. 
long, glabrous; stigma } lin. long, subcylindric, somewhat acute, 
strongly sinuate at the junction with the style. S. elongata? Dreége, 
Zwei Pf. Documente, 74, 221, not of R. Br.; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, 
xiv. 297. S. triternata, var., Drége ex Meisn. l.c. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 8073, partly ! 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; along the banks of the Tratra River, near 
Wupperthal, Leipoldt, 644! and in Herb. Bolus, 9384! Ezels Bank, Drége ! 
6. S. anethifolia (Knight, Prot. 84); an erect shrub 2-3 ft. high ; 
branches glabrous ; leaves 24-5} in. long, pinnately or bipinnately 
divided in the upper $ or 3, glabrous when mature ; segments 
terete, with an acute oblique callous apex, about } lin. thick, 
