662 PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Serrwria. 
furrowed on the upper surface ; heads many-flowered, numerous, in 
a rather dense corymb up to 4 in. broad on a common peduncle, 
scarcely exserted from the leaves ; branches and ultimate peduncles 
pubescent or tomentose, the latter }—1 in. long, with a solitary bract 
and a discoid swelling where it articulates at the base ; floral bracts 
11 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute and shortly pointed, 
pubescent ; perianth-tube 1-1} lin. long, glabrous, soon splitting to: 
the base; segments 3-4 lin. long, spathulate-linear, acute, villous. 
with adpressed white hairs ; limb } lin, long, villous ; anthers $ lin. 
long ; ovary 3—1 lin. long, subglobose, densely villous ; style 14-2} 
lin. long, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, ellipsoid or subovoid, obtuse. 
S. triternata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 131; Roem. & Schultes,. 
Syst. Veg. iii. 376; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 297. 8. tridentata, 
D. Dietr. Syn. i. 520 (by error). S. argentiflora, Buek in Drege, Zwei 
Pfl. Documente, 77, 221. Protea triternata, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 18 ;. 
Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 136; Thunb. Prodr. 25 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. 
i. 509; Poir. Encyel. v. 660; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 123. 
P. argentiflora, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 447. P. glomerata, Willd. ex 
Meisn. L.c., partly. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Auge! Oldenburg! Thunberg! Masson. 
Coast Recion: Tuibagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Roxburgh ! Ecklon \ 
Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 382! Pappe! Schlechter, 9002! Phillips, 523 ! 
between New Kloof and Elands Kloof, Drége! Zeyher; Roode Zand, Niven! 
Winterhoek, near Tulbagh, Bolus, 4808! 
7. 8. Bolusii (Phillips & Hutchinson); stems erect; branches: 
glabrous ; leaves 3-14 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in 
the upper half, glabrous ; ultimate segments 4—6 lin. long, narrowly 
cylindric, acutely mucronate ; heads 4-12, about 4 lin. long and in 
diam., few-flowered, corymbose on a common peduncle; peduncle 
about # in. long, bearing linear-lanceolate glabrous bracts about 
24 lin. long which soon become strongly reflexed ; ultimate 
peduncles 2-3 lin. long, glabrous, with a solitary bract at the base 
of each ; floral bracts 1}—3 lin. long, ovate, long-acuminate, acute, 
ribbed, glabrous or very minutely pubescent ; flowers curved in bud ;. 
perianth-tube # lin. long, pubescent above, glabrous below ; segments 
24-3 lin. long, shortly adpressed-hirsute ; limb 3-1 lin. long, oblong, 
subacute, adpressed-hirsute ; anthers ? lin. long ; hypogynous scales 
4-3 lin. long, filiform ; ovary }—} lin. long, ellipsoid, covered with 
long white hairs ; style 3-34 lin. long, swollen and articulated at the 
base, glabrous; stigma 3—} lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, furrowed ; 
fruit 24 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, beaked, villous. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Thom, 787 ! 
poregeis Reaton : Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Schlechter, 9651, partly! Bolus, 
8. S. adscendens (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 127); branches 
prostrate or ascending, purplish, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves 
1-21 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half or third, 
glabrous; ultimate segments 2-5 lin. long, narrowly cylindric, 
