680 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [| Serruria. 
42. 8. feniculacea (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 122); branches 
erect, pilose with weak hairs; leaves 1-1} in. long, bipinnately 
divided in the upper half, glabrous or rarely pilose with weak 
hairs, the ultimate segments 3-5 lin. long, narrow-cylindric, 
acutely mucronate; heads pedunculate, }—}? in. long, }—? in. in 
diam., terminal and axillary, clustered at the ends of the branches, 
many-flowered ; peduncles 3-4 lin. long, thinly pubescent, bearing 
lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrous usually ciliate bracts ; floral 
bracts 2-3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, suborbicular, acutely and 
abruptly acuminate, glabrous, ciliate; flowers curved in bud; 
perianth-tube } lin. long, pubescent ; segments 3{ lin. long, linear, 
hirsute with short adpressed hairs; limb 1 lin. long, elliptic, sub- 
acute, shortly villous; anthers } lin. long; hypogynous scales % 
lin. long, filiform; ovary } lin. long, villous ; style 34 lin. long, 
glabrous ; stigma 3? lin. long, subclavate, obtuse. Roem. d Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 370; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 290. SS. odorata, 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 348% P. abrotanifolia, odorata, Andr, Bot. 
Rep. t. 5451 Protea feeniculacea, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 572. 
Coast Recion : Cape Div.; near Zeekoe Vley, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.- 
Afr., 803! near Simons Town, Pappe ! 
43. §. barbigera (Knight, Prot. 90); branches erect, minutely 
puberulous or nearly glabrous; leaves 14-2 in. long, bipinnately 
divided in the upper } or 3, glabrous ; ultimate segments subterete, 
4—} in. long, about } lin. thick, acute or subacute ; heads 3-4 at 
the apex of each shoot, corymbose on separate peduncles, nearly 
1 in. in diam., many-flowered ; peduncles up to 1 in. long, glabrous 
or nearly so, furnished with numerous subulate glabrous bracts 
3-4 lin. long ; involucral bracts very numerous, about } in. long, 
linear, acute, the outer not ciliate and quite glabrous except for a 
tuft of hairs at the apex, a few of the inner very sparingly villous ; 
floral bracts 3-4} lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, long 
villous outside ; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube very short ; 
segments about 5 lin. long, with an almost glabrous claw ; limb 14 
lin. long, long-villous, the posticous one glabrous except at the tip ; 
anthers 1} lin. long, linear; ovary villous; style 44 lin. long, 
filiform, with a very narrow stigma. S. parilis, Knight, Prot. 91. 
S. phylicoides, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 125; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 371; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 292. S. nitida 
and S. squarrosa, R. Br. lic. 124; Roem. & Schultes, l.c. 370, 371 ; 
Meisn. 1.c. 292, 293. 8S. eriocephala, Steud. Nomenel. ed. 2, ii. 571. 
Leucadendron phylicoides, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 
328; Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 29. L. Serraria, Burm. ex Meisn. l.c. 
292. Protea abrotanifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 507. P. eriocephala, 
Roem. &: Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 379. P. squarrosa, Poir. Eneyel. 
Suppl iv. 573. P. glomerata, Thib. ex Meisn. l.c., not of R. Br. 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Stanger! Webb! Ludwig ! 
Coast Recion : Stellenbosch Diy. ; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 1136! Caledon 
Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 36971 Schlechter, 5478! MacOwan, Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr., 771! Galpin, 4469. Zwart Berg and Houw Hoek, Bowie! 
Pappe! near Caledon, Bolus ! 
