Serruria.|  PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson). 677 
long, bipinnately divided in the upper }$ or 3, pilose when 
young, usually becoming glabrous with age; ultimate segments 
2-6 lin. long, cylindric, acutely mucronate; heads terminal, 
solitary, sessile, 7-12 lin. long, about ?-1 in. in diam., usually 
surrounded by the upper leaves; floral bracts 24-4 lin. long, 
ovate or lanceolate-ovate, sharply long- (rarely shortly) acuminate, 
villous ; perianth-tube 14—1# lin. long, subglobose, glabrous below ; 
segments 3-4} lin. long, spathulate-linear, spreadingly villous ; 
limb 1-14 lin. long, linear-oblong or lanceolate-linear, subacute, 
villous, that of the posticous segment glabrous ; anthers }-1 lin. 
long, linear ; hypogynous scales 2—1 lin. long, filiform-linear, acutely 
acuminate ; ovary 3—} lin. long, elliptic-ovate, covered with long 
hairs ; style 23-4} lin. long, cylindric, distinctly swollen at the 
base, glabrous ; stigma #~1 lin. long, narrowly cylindric, subacute, 
furrowed. S. villosa, R. Br. Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 122; Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 369 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 292. S. Niveni, 
Meisn. l.c. 291, as to Zeyher, 3705, not of R. Br. - Protea villosa, Lam. 
Til. i. 240. P. phylicoides, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 19 (partly), var. y of 
Herb. ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 124, partly ; Poir. Encyel. v. 659, partly. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Nelson ! Ludwig! Grey! 
Coast Recon: Cape Div. ; near Constantia, Brown! Niven! Ludwig! 
mountains near Simons Bay or False Bay, Thunberg! Niven! Kirk! Bolus, 
4687! Muizen Berg, Zeyher, 3705! Pappe! Bolus, 4802! ridge beyond Smit- 
winkel Vley, Wolley-Dod, 2707 ! Kalk Bay hills, Wolley-Dod, 1010! 
37. S. rostellaris (Knight, Prot. 88); a small diffuse shrub; 
branches ascending, pilose when young, becoming glabrous ; leaves 
1-1} in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous ; 
ultimate segments }—} in. long, terete, acutely mucronate ; heads 
sessile, terminal, solitary, }—} in. long, about } in. in diam., many- 
flowered ; involucral bracts about } in. long, lanceolate, very acute, 
glabrous or nearly so, purplish ; floral bracts 5 lin. long, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, villous; perianth-tube 1} 
lin. long, glabrous; segments 44 lin. long, villous with white 
spreading hairs; limb 1} lin. long, oblong-elliptic, subacute, the 
posticous one very minutely pubescent, the other three spread 
ingly long-villous ; anthers 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales 1} lin. 
long, linear ; ovary villous; style 5 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 
3 lin. long, cylindric. S. Niveni, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
121; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 369; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 291, excl. Zeyher, 3705. 8S. plumosa, Meisn. lc. Protea 
decumbens, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 349. P. Niveni, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 
iv. 572. 
Sour AFrica: without locality, Ludwig! 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, Niven! Pappe! Zeyher, 
3704! mountains near Caledon, Bolus, 9889 ! 
38. S. cyanoides (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 117); branches 
tomentose or pubescent towards the apex, soon becoming glabrous ; 
leaves 1-2} in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper 
