Serruria.| | PROTEACEA! (Phillips & Hutchinson). 683 
ultimate segments 1-2} lin. long, cylindric, obtuse ; heads terminal 
and solitary, 1-1} lin. long, about | in. in diam., many-flowered ;. 
peduncles 6-8 lin. long, pilose; floral bracts 3 lin. long, ovate, 
acutely acuminate, villous; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 
2 lin. long, pubescent or glabrous ; segments 5 lin. long, spreadingly 
villous ; limb 1 lin. long, oblong, villous; anthers ?—1 lin. long ; 
ovary villous; style 5 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 3 lin. long, sub- 
clavate, obtuse ; fruit 1}—2 lin. long, ellipsoid, beaked, villous. 
S. scoparia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 119 ; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 368; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 289. 8S. Dregei, 
Meisn. lc. Protea scoparia, Poir, Encycl. Suppl. iv. 571. 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div. ; near Moorreesburg, Bolus, 9979! Tulbagh 
Div. ; Winterhoek Mountain, Niven, 8! Klein Berg River, Niven! Paarl Div. ; 
near the Berg River, Zeyher, 3698 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
49. §. Zeyheri (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 297); branches 
glabrous ; leaves erect, bipiznatifid, glabrous ; segments spreading, 
slender, acutely mucronate ; corymb exceeding the leaves ; branches 
hairy, simple or 2—3-branched at the apex ; heads globose, many- 
flowered ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, spreading; flowers 
adpressed - pubescent; limb glabrous; style exserted; stigma 
subcapitate. 
Coast Recon: Caledon Div. ; by the Zondereinde River near Appels Kraal, 
Zeyher. 
We have not seen a specimen of this species, but it is evidently closely allied to 
S. meisneriana, Schlechter. 
50. 8. Bergii (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 220); stem woody ; 
branches terete, glabrous ; branches simple, erect, glabrous ; leaves 
much divided ; segments subulate, acute, grooved above ; heads 
subglobose, about 1 in. long, terminal, slightly pedunculate ; bracts 
wedge-shaped, acuminate from a truncate base, villous, the lower 
one glabrous ; flowers silky-villous, with the posticous limb glabrous ; 
style filiform; stigma obtuse. Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 299. 
Leucadendron spherocephalum, Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 26. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Bergius. 
51. §. colorata (Buek ex Driége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 109, 221, 
name only). 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Berg Valley and Lange Valley, 
Dreége. 
52. §. anemonefolia (Knight, Prot. 83); a decumbent plant ; 
leaves 1-3 in. long, 3-pinnatifid from very near their middle, pubes- 
cent; peduncles 1-3, a little longer than the head; style bowed 
from the base. 
