666 PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Serrwria. 
above ; branches slender, pubescent ; leaves very slender, 1-1} in. 
long, bipinnately divided in the upper 3, glabrous or thinly pilose ;. 
ultimate segments up to 7 lin. long, almost filiform, very acute ; 
heads mostly numerous, corymbose on a common peduncle, enclosed 
by the leaves, about 15-flowered, nearly } in. Jong; ultimate 
peduncles rather slender, up to } in. long, tomentose, with a solitary 
subulate very acute glabrescent bract at the base of each; floral 
bracts up to 2 lin. long, with a long linear acumen from an ovate 
base or the inner subulate, glabrous or nearly so; perianth-tube 
glabrous, soon splitting to the base ; segments 34 lin. long, filiform ; 
claw very shortly setulose-pubescent ; limb ? lin. long, lanceolate, 
subacute, glabrous or nearly so ; anthers } lin. long ; ovary ellipsoid, 
glabrous ; style slender, 3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma slightly 
clavate. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iti. 375, excl. var. B ; Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr. xiv. 296, excl. var. B and part of a. 8S. fasciflora, Knight, 
Prot. 85, partly. S. Burmanni, var. vulgaris, Meisn. lc. S. foeniculacea, 
Sieber, partly, ex Meisn. lc. 296, not of R. Br. Leucadendron 
Serraria, vars. a and y, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 93; ed. ii. 137. 
Protea Serraria, Linn. Mant. alt. 188 ; partly of his Herb. ; Willd. 
Sp. Pl. i. 508, partly ; Lam. Ill. i. 240, partly; Poir. Encycl. v. 660, 
partly.—Abrotanoides arboreum, etc., Pluk. Mant. 1, t. 329, fig. 1. 
Abrotanum africanum foliis tenuissimis, ete., Seba, Thesaur. ii. 64, 
t. 63, fig. 6. Serraria foliis tenuissime divisis, etc., Burm. Rar. 
Afr, Pl. 264, t. 99, fig. i. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Thom! Pappe! Sieber, 10! 
Drége, 8070a ! 
Coast Reoion: Paarl Div. ; between Mosselbanks River and Berg River, 
Burchell, 976! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats between Cape Town and Simons Town, 
Burchell, 8542! Simons Bay, Wright! Table Mountain, Bolus, 4729! between 
Wynberg and Constantia, Burchell, 786! behind Wynberg Butts, Wolley-Dod, 
609! Orange Kloof, Wolley-Dod, 826! Stellenbosch Div. ; between Stellenbosch 
and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8366! near the River Eerste, Bolus, 4199! between Lowrys 
Pass and Jonkers Hoek, Burchell, 8333 ! Caledon Div. ; Donker Hoek mountain, 
Burchell, 7941! near Caledon, Bolus, 9916! Swellendam Div. ; hills of 
Swellendam, Bowie! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4474! Mossel Bay 
Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Gill! George Div. ; Montagu Pass, Schlechter, 5839 ! 
15. §. candicans (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 130); stems 
erect ; branches rusty-villous when young, at length becoming 
whitish-tomentose or pubescent ; leaves 1-14 in. long, bipinnately 
divided in the upper }, very densely whitish adpressed-tomentose, 
rusty-tomentose when young; ultimate segments terete, acutely” 
mucronate ; heads several and corymbose on a short common 
peduncle, enclosed by the leaves ; peduncle rusty-tomentose ; ultimate 
peduncles about 2 lin. long, tomentose, with a solitary bract about 
2 lin. long at the base of each; floral bracts 24 lin. long, ovate, 
acuminate, with a flat glandular apex, villous outside ; flowers erect 
in bud ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, glabrous ; segments 34 lin. long, 
pilose with spreading hairs ; limb 2 lin. long, oblong, subacute ; 
anthers { lin. long, oblong ; style 3 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma } 
