Serruria,| | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 663 
subobtusely mucronate; heads numerous in a dense raceme or 
corymbose panicle on a common peduncle, enclosed by or only 
slightly exserted from the leaves, 6—8-flowered ; peduncle up to 
3 in. long, pubescent ; ultimate peduncles very short and thick, up 
to 14 lin. long, with a solitary ovate-lanceolate purple glabrescent 
bract about 2 lin. long at the base of each ; floral bracts 24-3 lin. 
long, ovate, acutely acuminate, at length recurved, pubescent ; 
flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube }-1} lin. long, glabrous ; 
segments 31-4 lin. long, adpressed-tomentose ; limb 2-1} lin. long, 
oblong-elliptic, subacute, tomentose ; anthers }-1 lin. long ; hypo- 
ous scales } lin. long, filiform; ovary 4 lin. long, villous ; style 
about 34 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, subclavate, obtuse. 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 373 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 294. 
S. rubricaulis, R. Br. lc. 128, exel. syn. Thunb. ; Roem. & Schultes, 
Le. ; Meisn.l.c. S. compar, R. Br. lc. 129 ; Roem. & Schultes, l.c. 375 ; 
Meisn. l.c. 295. Protea adscendens, Lam. Ill. i. 239 ; Poir. Encycl. 
vy. 658; Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 399. P. compar, Poir. Encyel. 
Suppl. iv. 574. 
Var. B, decipiens (Hutchinson); branches roughly villous; heads crowded 
and very shortly pedunculate or subsessile ; racts roughly hairy. S. decipiens, 
R. Br. 1c. 129 ; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii, 374 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
295, incl. vars. S. glomerata, Meisn. l.c. 294, as to syn. Thunb. Protea patula, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 16; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 122; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 136. 
Sour AFRica: without locality, Thom, 421! Ludwig! Gueinzius! Var: B: 
Sieber | 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Kromme River and Berg Valley, 
Drege! Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, Drége, 8073 partly! Schlechter, 5184! 
Caledon Div. ; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3703! Donker Hoek 
mountain, Burchell, 7942! near Hermanus, Bolus, 9896 ! Galpin, 4475! Bot River, 
Schlechter, 9436! Var. 6: Malmesbury Div.; near Groene Kloof (Mamre), 
Bolus, 48271! between Groene Kloof and Dassenberg, Drége, 8074a! Zwartland, 
Zeyher, 3711! Caledon Div. ; Bot River, Schlechter, 9443 ! 
9. 8. Knightii (Hutchinson) ; a much-branched shrub about 3 ft. 
high ; branches diffuse, purplish, thinly pilose or puberulous, 
becoming at length nearly glabrous; leaves slender, up to 2} in. 
long, bipinnately divided in the upper 1 or 3, thinly pilose or 
glabrous; ultimate segments up to 3 in. long, subulate or 
almost filiform, very acute; heads usually very numerous, in 
a broad corymb on a short common peduncle, enclosed by the 
leaves, individual heads about 4 lin. long, 5-7-flowered ;_ ulti- 
mate peduncles }—} in. long, slender, densely pubescent, with a 
solitary subulate pubescent bract about 2 lin. long at the base of 
each; floral bracts more or less ovate, with a gland-tipped 
glabrescent acumen, villous, about 1} lin. long; flowers slightly 
curved in bud; perianth-tube about ? lin. long, pilose ; segments 
24 lin. long, linear-filiform, shortly adpressed-tomentose ; limb } lin. 
long, elliptic, subacute, tomentose ; anthers 3 lin. long; ovary 
pubescent ; style 2} lin. long, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, sub- 
clavate, somewhat acute; fruit about 2 lin. long, obovoid, shortly 
