Serruria.| | PROTEACEA: (Phillips & Hutchinson). 679 
40. 8. emula (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 125); a shrub 2 ft. 
high ; branches erect or ascending, pubescent or puberulous, rarely 
nearly glabrous; leaves 14-2 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately 
divided in the upper 3, glabrous; ultimate segments subacuttly 
mucronate ; heads solitary on simple peduncles, usually several in a 
corymb at the apex of each shoot, $—{ in. long, }-1} in. in diam. ; 
peduncles #-1} in. long, pubescent or glabrous, bearing numerous 
lanceolate to subulate glabrous shortly ciliate bracts 2—4 lin. long ; 
involucral bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, with a broad 
midrib and broad membranous margins, up to 7 lin. long, 2—4 lin. 
broad ; floral bracts 4-5 lin. long, lanceolate, pilose or densely 
long-villous ; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; segments 3-3} lin. long, spreadingly pilose; limb 1}—2 
lin. long, narrowly elliptic, acute, densely villous, that of the 
posticous segment nearly glabrous; anthers 1-1} lin. long; ovary 
beaked, densely villous ; style 3-4 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma 14—2 
lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, furrowed. Roem. d Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iii. 372; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 292. S. furcellata, E. Meyer in 
Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 118, 221, not of R. Br. 8S. florida, var., 
E. Meyer, l.c. 79, 81, 82, 221, not of R. Br. S. subcorymbosa, Meisn. 
Le. 285. Protea xmula, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 573. 
Var. 8, heterophylla (Hutchinson); leaves on the flowering shoots mostly 
simple or trifurcate. S. heterophylla, Meisn, l.c. 284. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Brehm! Var. B: Ludwig! 
Coast Reaction: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Paarl Div. ; Draken- 
stein Mountains, Drége! French Hoek, Roxburgh! Schlechter, 9232! Caledon 
Div. ; mountains of Baviaans Kloof near Genadendaal, Burchell, 7674! 7824! 
7859/2! near Grietjes Gat, Bolus, 4200! Shaws Mountain, Galpin, 4470! 
Onrust River, Schlechter, 9500! between Bot River and Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3696 ! 
Donker Hoek, Drége! Grey! Var. 8: Caledon Div.: Hermanus, Galpin, 4468! 
Bolus, 9828! mountains near Bot River, Pappe! Zeyher, 3695! Ludwig, Ecklon. 
Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Pappe ! 
41. S. scariosa (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 118); branches 
glabrous or pubescent ; leaves 1—1} in. long, bipinnately divided in 
the upper } or }, glabrous; leaf-segments spreading, 3—5 lin. long, 
linear, acute ; heads pedunculate, 8-9 lin. long, about 7 lin. in diam., 
2-3-nate at the end of the branches; peduncle 10-12 lin. long, 
glabrous, bearing lanceolate-ovate subacutely acuminate glabrous 
bracts; floral bracts 6 lin. long, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 
membranous, pilose, glandular ; perianth-tube }-1 lin. long, ventri- 
cose, glabrous below ; segments 4—4} lin. long, spathulate-linear, 
shortly hirsute ; limb 1} lin. long, linear, acute, pubescent ; anthers 
1 lin. long ; apical gland } lin. long, ovate, subacute ; ovary 2 lin. 
long, beaked, villous ; style 3 lin. long, cylindric-filiform, glabrous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, slightly swollen at the june- 
tion with the style. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 367 ; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 286. P. spheerocephala, Poir. Encyel. v. 658. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
Protea coarctata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 122, referred doubtfully to this 
species by Meisner, is an Australian plant and identical with Petrophila pulchella, 
R. Br. 
