678 PROTEACEH (Phillips & Hutchinson). = [Serrwria. 
3% or 3, glabrous or the younger sometimes pubescent ; ultimate 
segments +2 in. long, terete, acutely mucronate ; heads solitary, 
terminal, shortly pedunculate, about ? in. in diam., many-flowered ; 
peduncle 4-1 in. long, pilose or villous, bearing lanceolate acutely 
acuminate minutely pustulate glabrous purplish bracts 2-3 lin. 
‘long; involucral bracts 3-4} lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate,. 
acutely acuminate, pilose or villous; floral bracts similar, keeled ; 
flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 14 lin. long, glabrous ;. 
segments 4—5 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 14-2 lin. long, 
oblong, villous, that of the posticous segment more shortly 
pubescent ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, filiform; ovary villous ;. 
style 3—4 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 1 lin. long, subclavate, obtuse, 
furrowed. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 366; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 290. Leucadendron cyanoides, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 93; 
Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 326; Berg. Descr. Pl. 
Cap. 27. Protea cyanoides, Linn. Mant. alt. 188; Lam. Iil. i. 239 ; 
Poir. Encyel. v. 658. 
SouTH AFRica: without locality, Pappe ! 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; Great Winterhoek, Zeyher! between Bains 
Kloof and Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5239! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége ! 
Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Wright, 630! 631! Cape Flats, Pappe, 10! Bolus, 
4983! Orange Kloof, Wolley-Dod, 2708! mountains near Constantia, Schlechter, 
1225! Stellenbosch Div. ; between Lowrys Pass and Jonkers Hoek, Burchell, 
8319! between Tyger Berg and Simons Berg, Dréye, 8066 ! Caledon Div. ; Zwart 
Berg, Templeman in Herb. MacOwan ! 
39. 8. florida (Knight, Prot. 92); a shrub; branches erect or 
ascending, purplish, glabrous ; leaves 13-2} in. long, pinnately or 
bipinnately divided, rather broad at the base, glabrous ; ultimate 
segments very acute; heads axillary and terminal, few together, 
pedunculate, 1}-14 in. long, about 1} in. in diam. ; peduncles 1-3 
in. long, glabrous, bearing large lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate very 
acutely acuminate glabrous (white?) bracts; involucral bracts 
1-1} in. long, 4~7 lin. broad, lanceolate to obovate, acutely 
acuminate, membranous, white (?), becoming pinkish-yellow when 
dry ; floral bracts about } in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
tapered to a fine subulate apex, very long-ciliate ; perianth-tube 
1) lin. long, ellipsoid, glabrous ; segments 44 lin. long, glabrous 
except on the limb ; limb 14 lin. long, oblong-linear, thinly villous 
with very long hairs, that of the posticous segment glabrous or 
nearly so; anthers 1} lin. long; ovary pubescent, surrounded by 
long hairs ; style 3} lin. long, with a globose swelling at the base, 
glabrous ; stigma | lin. long ; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, shortly beaked, 
rusty pilose. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 126; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 372 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 285. Protea florida, 
Thunb. Diss. Prot. 15, t. 1, fig. 1; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 136; 
Lam. Ill. i. 240; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 506; Poir. Encyel. v. 662 ; 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 121. 
SourH Arrica : without locality, Wedgwood ! 
Coast Recon: Paarl Div. ; French Hoek, Thunberg! Masson! MacOwan, 
Herb, Norm. Austr,-Afr., 1524! Kriel in Herb. Bolus, 6835! 
