Serruria.| | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 669 
rather densely adpressed-pilose outside ; anthers sessile, 1 lin. long ; 
style } in. long, slender, glabrous ; stigma as in S. gracilis. Roem. 
& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 365, partly, excl. syn. Andr. ; Poir. Encyel. 
Suppl. iv. 571, partly ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 290, exel. var. 
Coast Recion: Paarl Div. ; Little and Great Drakenstein Mountains, Dréye ! 
Paarl Mountain, Drége! Stellenbosch Div.; between Tyger Berg and Simons 
Berg, Drége ! 
20. 8. gracilis (Knight, Prot. 81); a small shrub with decumbent 
stems ; stems terete, purplish, glabrous, with very short internodes ; 
leaves }-1} in. long, usually trifurcate in the upper half, rarely a 
few entire, glabrous ; segments terete, slender, acutely mucronate ; 
heads solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate, 3-1 in. in diam., a 
little over § in. long, many-flowered ; peduncle }—1 in. long, broadening 
upwards, more or less tomentose, bearing a few bracts, the latter 
lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 14—3 lin. long, 
glabrous, purplish ; floral bracts 44-6 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, 
long and gradually acuminate, adpressed-pubescent outside, glabrous 
within, tips purple; flowers erect in bud, bright red; perianth- 
tube 2 lin. long, pubescent in the upper part, glabrous at the base ; 
segments 5 lin. long, linear, adpressed-pilose ; limb 1} lin. long, 
oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, long adpressed-pilose outside ; anthers 
sessile, 1 lin. long ; ovary densely villous ; style 5 lin. long, slender, 
glabrous; stigma about } lin. long, gradually passing into the 
style, obtuse or almost truncate. SS. pinnata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 116, partly, as to syn. Andr.; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iii. 365, partly ; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 571, partly. S. pinnata, 
var. longifolia, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 291. Protea pinnata, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 512. 
Coast Recron: Paarl Div.; near French Hoek, Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 
1350! MacOwan, 2904! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven. 
21. S. diffusa (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 115); branches 
prostrate, glabrous or slightly pubescent towards the tips; leaves 
1-1} in. long, ternately divided in the upper third or simple and 
then very short, glabrous, often slightly pubescent when young ; 
segments 34-7 lin. long, terete, acutely mucronate ; heads solitary, 
terminal, shortly pedunculate, about ? in. long and in diam., many- 
flowered ; peduncle #-1 in. long, pubescent, bearing a few linear- 
lanceolate subacute glabrous often reflexed bracts; floral bracts 4—6 
lin. long, ovate to lanceolate, acutely acuminate, villous ; flowers 
straight in bud; perianth-tube about 14 lin. long, glabrous; 
segments 33-44 lin. long, linear, long-villous with spreading yellow 
or whitish hairs; limb 1} lin. long, elliptic or oblong-ciliptic, 
subacute, villous ; anthers #-1 lin. long; ovary villous ; style 4 lin. 
long, swollen at the base; stigma } lin. long, obtuse. Roem. d&: 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 365 ; E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
78, 221; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 286. S. furcellata, R. Br. lc. 118; 
