Serruria.| | PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). 671 
clavate-cylindric, obtuse, furrowed. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 
370; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 293. Protea ciliata, Poir. Encycl. 
Suppl. iv. 572. P. glomerata, Willd. ex Meisn. L.c. 
Var..8, congesta (Hutchinson) ; leaves nearly always bipinnate, rarely a few 
trifureate ; heads mostly crowded at the apex of each shoot. S. arenaria, 
Knight, Prot. 87% 8. emarginata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 348? S. congesta, R. Br. 
in Trans. Linn, Soc. x. 123; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 370; Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr, xiv. 293, incl. vars., excl. syn. Andr. Protea abrotanifolia minor, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 536% P. congesta, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 573. P. phylicoides, 
Willd. ex Meisn. lc. 
SoutH Arrica: var. 8B: without locality, Thom! Drége, 8069! Forster! 
Ludwig! Bowie! 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, 
Burchell, 8360! between Tyger Berg and Simons Berg, Drége! Physsers Hoek, 
Roxburgh! Var. B: Cape Div.; near Tyger Berg, Eclilon, 45! Pappe! Bolus, 
5238! Vygeskraal Farm, Wolley-Dod, 1838! Cape Flats, .Pappe, 36! Kuils 
River, Pappe, 20! near Cape Town, Bolus, 2904! near Durban Road Station, 
Wolley-Dod, 1853! sand-dunes near Riet Valley, Zeyher, 1474! Swellendam 
Div. ; on secondary hills, Bowie ! 
24. §. nervosa (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 290); branches 
purplish, glabrous or very scantily pilose with weak hairs; leaves 
3+1 in. long, pinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous or 
scantily pilose ; ultimate segments 3-4 lin. long, slender, narrowly 
cylindric, acutely mucronate ; heads terminal, solitary, subsessile, 
2 in. long and in diam., many-flowered ; peduncle 1—2 lin. long, 
glabrous, bearing subulate acuminate acute glabrous purple bracts 
about 2 lin. long; floral bracts 34-4} lin. long, ovate, long- 
acuminate, subacute, ribbed, minutely pubescent towards the 
margin; flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube 13 lin. long, 
glabrous below ; segments 34 lin. long, spathulate-linear, hirsute 
with adpressed hairs; limb | lin. long, oblong, subobtuse, shortly 
hirsute ; anthers sessile, # lin. long, oblong-linear ; hypogynous 
seales 1 lin. long, filiform ; ovary } lin. long, ellipsoid, long-villous ; 
style 4 lin. long, with an ellipsoid swelling at the base, glabrous ; 
stigma } lin. long, slightly clavate, obtuse. 
Sovurn AFRICA: without locality, Ludwig! 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 7864! 
25. S. Dodii (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; branches pilose; leaves 
1}-2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper %, adpressed- 
tomentose or almost villous with silyery hairs ; ultimate segments 
2-4 lin. long, ny ab ; heads terminal, solitary, shortly peduncu- 
late, 8 lin. long, about } in. in diam., enclosed within the upper 
leaves, 12-15-flowered ; peduncle 3/lin. long, densely puberulous, 
bearing ovate acutely-acuminate puberulous shortly ciliate bracts 
1 lin. long; floral bracts 2-lin. long, broadly ovate or almost trans- 
versely oblong, shortly acuminate, obtuse, shortly tomentose outside ; 
flowers curved in bud ; perianth-tube 1} lin. long, glabrous below, 
pubescent above ; segments } in. long, adpressed-hirsute ; limb 1} 
lin, long, elliptic, acute, adpressed-hirsute, that of the posticous — 
