672 PROTEACEH (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Serrwria. 
segment more shortly pubescent ; anthers 1 lin. long ; hypogynous 
scales 1 lin. long, filiform; ovary villous; style } in. long, rather 
densely pubescent in the lower half; stigma almost 1 lin. long, 
subclavate, obtuse. 
Coast REGION: Worcester Div. ; Els Kloof, Hex River, Wolley-Dod, 4050! 
26. §. argentifolia (Phillips & Hutchinson); branches more or 
less thinly tomentose, becoming pubescent when older; leaves 
3-1} in. long, about 1} in. broad, bipinnately divided in the upper 
half, rather densely adpressed-tomentose ; segments nearly } lin. 
thick, terete, obtuse ; heads axillary and terminal, crowded at the 
ends of the branches, solitary on each peduncle, about 7 lin. long 
and 3 in. in diam., many-flowered ; peduncle 5-6 lin. long, tomen- 
tose, bearing one or two subulate-lanceolate shortly pubescent 
bracts ; floral bracts 2 lin. long, broadly obovate or suborbicular, 
cuspidate, subacute, densely pubescent ; perianth-tube } lin. long, 
glabrous ; segments 43 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 1 lin. 
long, oblong, acute, villous; anthers ? lin. long; ovary villous ; 
style 34 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 3 lin. long, cylindric, obtuse. 
Coast Recion : Ceres Div. ; Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10155! 
27. 8. Aitoni (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 114); branches 
tomentose or pilose; leaves 3-13 in. long, bipinnately divided in 
the upper 3, densely adpressed-tomentose ; segments terete, obtuse ; 
heads terminal and axillary, corymbose at the end of the shoots, 
about 3 in. in diam., many-flowered; peduncle simple, 1-1} in. 
long, tomentose, bearing very few lanceolate-linear acutely acumi- 
nate villous bracts 14-3 lin. long ; floral bracts 2—3 lin. long, ovate 
to obovate or suborbicular, acuminate, villous ; perianth-tube 1} 
lin. long, glabrous; segments } in. long, spreadingly villous ; limb 
1 lin. long, oblong or oblanceolate, villous; anthers nearly 1 lin. 
long ; ovary villous; style 34-4 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 4 lin. 
long, obtuse; fruit 1 lin. long, oblong, shortly beaked, villous. 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 364; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 288. 
S. subumbellata, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 75, 221. 
S. tomentosa, Meisn. lc. Nivenia Zahlbruckneri, Ostermeyer in Ann. 
Nat. Hofmus. Wien, xxiv. 297, t. vi. Protea Aitoni, Poir. Encycl. 
Suppl. iv. 570. 
Var. 8, multifida (Meisn. l.c.); leaves shortly and spreadingly pilose ; outer bracts 
silky-tomentose. SS, multifida, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 74, 221. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Rectoy: Piquetberg Div. ; mountains around Piquetberg, Drége! 
Schlechter, 5192! Penther, 1590. Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ezelsbank, Dréye. 
28. S. brevifolia (Phillips & Hutchinson); a branched, erect 
shrub about 5 ft. high ; branches erect, slightly rufous-tomentellous 
and pilose with long weak hairs when young, becoming at length 
puberulous and slightly glaucous ; leaves 3-4 lin. long, pinnately or 
bipinnately divided from near the base, shortly tomentose when 
quite young, at length glabrous ; segments terete, obtuse ; heads 
