C10. PROTEACESE (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [Serrwria. 
Meisn. lc. 285. S. scariosa, Drége ex Meisn. l.c. 285, not of R. Br. 
Protea Brownii, Poir. Encyel. Suppl. iv. 570. P. cyanoides, Thunb. 
Diss. Prot. 15; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 122. Leucadendron glomeru- 
tum, Linn., partly, ex Meisn. l.c. 285. 
Soura Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Drége! Schlechter, 7498! near 
Roode Zand, Roxburgh! near Wilde River, Viven ; Paarl Div. ; mountains near 
Paarl, Pappe, 8! 
22. S. simplicifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 115) ; branches 
simple, finely pubescent or glabrous ; leaves 14-2} in. long, entire 
or rarely 2—3-furcate or pinnately divided, linear, subterete, furrowed 
above, glabrous ; heads solitary, terminal and axillary, pedunculate, 
about in. long and in diam., many-flowered ; peduncle 1-1} in. 
long, tomentose, bearing lanceolate-ovate acuminate acute glabrous 
bracts 2-3 lin. long; floral bracts 2-4 lin. long, ovate, acuminate, 
acute, densely villous; flowers erect in bud; perianth-tube j lin. © 
long, glabrous; segments 34 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 
1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, villous ; anthers 1 lin. long; hypogynous 
scales 2 lin. long, filiform ; ovary } lin. long, villous ; style 3 lin. 
long, glabrous, swollen at the base ; stigma } lin. long, subclavate, 
obtuse. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 365; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 
466; Schultes, Mant. 267; Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 114, 221; 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 284. Protea plumigera, Thunb. in Mém. 
Acad. Petersb. 1818, 14, ¢. 14; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 121 ; 
Schultes, Mant. 267. P. simplicifolia, Poir, Eneycl. Suppl. 570. 
Sour AFRICA : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast REGron: Malmesbury Div. ; Groene Kloof (Mamre) and neighbourhood, 
Zeyher, 1469 ! Bolus, 4325! Zwartland, Pappe ! between Groene Kloof and Dassen- 
berg, Dréye! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Waterfall, Roxburgh ! 
Serruria linearis, Knight, Prot. 82, is very probably this species ; the type, 
piste was gathered at Groene Kloof by Niven, is apparently not now in 
existence, 
23. S. ciliata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 123); branches 
glabrous or rarely pilose with a few weak hairs when young ; leaves 
slender, $—} in. long, trifureate in the upper } or 4, very rarely a 
few bipinnately divided, glabrous or pilose with a few scattered 
weak hairs; ultimate segments 2-4 lin. long, cylindric, acutely 
mucronate ; heads solitary, terminal, sessile or subsessile, 5-7 lin. 
long, $—} in. in diam., many-flowered ; outer bracts 3-4 lin. long, 
subulate, acute, long-ciliate ; floral bracts 23-44 lin. long, acutely 
long-acuminate from an ovate base, sometimes pustulate, glabrous 
or slightly pilose, very long-ciliate ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, 
glabrous ; segments 23-3} lin. long, spathulate-linear, villous with 
spreading hairs; limb } lin. long, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub- 
acute, villous ; anthers } lin. long ; hypogynous scales }—% lin. long, 
filiform ; ovary }~} lin. long, ellipsoid, villous ; style 3-34 lin, long, 
cylindric, glabrous, not swollen at the base ; stigma 4-2 lin. long, 
