674. PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Serruria. 
filiform ; ovary } lin. long, obovoid, very densely villous ; style 6-7 
lin. long, cylindric, curved and glabrous above, pubescent on the 
lower half ; stigma } lin. long, ovoid, subobtuse ; fruit very minutely 
stalked, 3 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, beaked, villous. Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 364; Drege, Zwei PA. Documente, 115, 2215 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 287, with vars. SS. sawicola, Buek ex 
E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docwmente, 221. S. adscendens, E. 
Meyer in Drége, lc. 76. Protea acrocarpa, Poir. Encyel. Suppl. iv. 
570. 
Coast Recion: Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, Drége! Tulbagh Div. ; on the 
Witzenberg Range, near Tulbagh, Burchell, 8658 ! Worcester Div. ; Brand Vley, 
Roxburgh! Hex River Mountains, Rehmann, 2714! Caledon Div. ; mountains 
near Genadendal, Ludwig! Burchell, 7852! 8623! Drége! Pappe! near the 
Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 5644! Donkerhoek Mountain, Burchell, 7948! Pappe! 
Bolus, 5242! Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Pappé, 3! 11! mountains of 
Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3707! Galpin, 4472! Schlechter, 7330! between Zuurbraak 
and Buffeljagts River Drift, Burchell, 7271! hills by the Buffeljagts River, Zeyher, 
3706 B! near Breede River, Burchell, 7466! Zuurbraak, Galpin, 4471! Hessaques - 
Kloof, Zeyher, 3706 ! 
31. S. longipes (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; branches pilose with 
long weak hairs from a puberulous surface ; leaves 3-1} in. long, 
narrowly ovate in outline when spread out, bipinnately divided 
almost from the base, glabrous or very sparingly pilose with long 
weak hairs; ultimate segments 2—4 lin. long, with a subobtuse 
callous apex ; heads terminal and axillary, up to 5 collected at the 
end of the branches, many-flowered ; peduncle 14-2 in. long, tinely 
puberulous, bearing 5-8 remote ovate-lanceolate acutely acuminate 
glabrous or slightly puberulous bracts ; floral bracts } in. long, 
about 2 lin. broad, very abruptly and shortly acuminate, villous ; 
perianth-tube 1} lin. long, glabrous ; segments nearly 4 in. long, 
villous; limb 1 lin. long, elliptic, subobtuse, that of the posticous 
segment very shortly pubescent, the others long-villous ; anthers 
3 lin. long; hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; ovary villous ; 
style 5 lin. long, pubescent on the lower 3; stigma j lin. long, 
furrowed, obtuse. 
Pega: Recron : Tulbagh Div. ; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-A ifr., 
This may be only a variety of S, artemisixfolia, Knight ; the leaves are divided 
almost from the base and when spread out they are narrowly ovate in outline. 
32. S. artemisiefolia (Knight, Prot. 80); branches erect, pilose 
.or villous; leaves 1-2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper 
} or 3, pilose or nearly glabrous ; ultimate segments 4-4 in. long, 
narrow, subacutely mucronate; heads solitary, terminal, long- 
pedunculate, {-1 in. long, about 1 in. in diam., globose, many- 
flowered ; peduncle 1-3 in. long, pubescent, bearing ovate or 
lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrous bracts 3-2 lin. long; floral 
bracts 24-3} lin. long, ovate to spathulate-obovate, with a short 
recurved acumen, tomentose ; flowers more or less straight in bud ; 
perianth-tube 2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 41-5 lin. long, 
