668 PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). = [ Serrwria. 
anthers } lin. long; ovary 1 lin. long, ellipsoid, long-villous ; style 
24-3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma } lin. long, ellipsoid, obtuse. 
S. glaberrima, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 112 ; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 363 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 284, excl. var. Protea 
glaberrima, Poir. Encyel. Suppl. iv. 569. P. decumbens, Willd. ex 
Meisn. l.c., name only, not of Thunb. 
Sourm Arrica: without locality, Gueinzius ! 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Masson ! 
Caledon Div. ; at the foot of mountains near Bot River, Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr. 1349! Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3701! Schlechter, 5482! 
Klein Houw Hoek, Roxburgh! rocks on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bowie ! 
18. 8. trilopha (Knight, Prot. 90); a low decumbent plant ; 
branches thinly pilose or nearly glabrous; leaves }—1 in. long, 
divided into 3 filiform acute furrowed segments, rarely entire, 
glabrous, thinly pilose when young; heads terminal, solitary, 
shortly pedunculate, many-flowered, 3—1 in. long, about 1 in. in 
diam., subglobose ; peduncle }—3 in. long, villous, bearing linear- 
lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrous ciliate bracts about 2 lin. 
long; floral bracts 21-4 lin. long, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, with a thick glabrescent midrib, villous towards 
the margin ; flowers erect in bud; perianth-tube 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; segments spathulate-linear, with a glabrous claw ; limb 
1-1} lin. long, elliptic, subacute, glabrous in the lower, bearded in 
the upper part; anthers ? lin. long; ovary 4 lin. long, villous; — 
style 3-4 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 1-1} lin. long, clavate, sub- 
obtuse. 8. arenaria, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 117 ; Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 366 ; Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 291. Protea 
arenaria, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 571. P. phylicoides, Willd. Sp. 
Pl. i. 510, partly. 
SoutH AFRICA : without locality, Thom ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Ecklon, 3b! Zeyher, 1471! Pappe, 9! 
blk 695! Bolus, 4594! east of Plumstead, Wolley-Dod, 1613! Wynberg, 
iven. 
19. 8. pinnata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 116, partly, excl. syn. 
Andr.) ; a shrub with long prostrate stems, the latter long-pilose 
with weak hairs, rather densely so when young ; internodes about 
{ in. long; leaves 1-13 in. long, usually trifurcate in the upper 
third, the petiole or lower part pilose and often stouter than the 
segments, the latter terete, acutely mucronate; heads terminal, 
solitary or two at the end of a shoot, but each on its own peduncle, 
shortly pedunculate, 1-1} in. in diam., about 3 in. long; peduncle 
densely pubescent, bearing a few bracts similar to those of S. gracilis ; 
floral bracts up to } in. long, narrowly lanceolate, gradually and 
very acutely acuminate, shortly and sparingly pubescent outside, 
glabrous within, with purple tips ; flowers erect in bud ; perianth- 
tube about 2 lin. long, glabrous at the base ; segments 5-6 lin. long, 
linear, adpressed-pilose outside ; limb 1} lin, long, oblong, subobtuse, 
