686 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [ Spatadla. 
, 
XI. SPATALLA, Salisb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, slightly zygomorphic. Perianth cylindric 
in bud with an ellipsoid recurved limb, 4-partite to below the 
middle, rarely only to the middle, always with a distinct tube ; 
segments differentiated into claw and limb, the posticous (adaxial) 
one larger and thicker than the 3 anticous, all more or less equally 
hairy ; limbs often slightly recurved or rarely the claws spirally 
twisted, obtuse or subacute, rarely long-acuminate. Stamens 4 ; 
anthers broadly ovoid or rounded, sessile or subsessile, inserted at 
the base of the limb ; connective always slightly produced into a 
small globular point. Hypogynous scales 4, free, usually linear or 
subulate. Ovary sessile or very shortly stipitate, hairy ; style 
slender, terete, often slightly bent towards the apex, subpersistent, 
glabrous ; stigma very small, situated in the middle of a flat or 
concave oblique usually obovate disk. Ovule 1, laterally attached. 
Fruit a pubescent brown shortly stipitate ovoid or ellipsoid nut with 
a thin pericarp. 
Usually small erect or spreading shrubs ; leaves often crowded and numerous, 
ericoid or acicular, entire, often mucronate, mostly terete or rarely flat on the 
upper side, straight or falcate, incurved or at length recurved, mostly thinly 
pilose when young, at length becoming glabrous or nearly so; flowers in 
1-flowered or few-flowered (3-4) involucres arranged in terminal sessile or 
pedunculate spikes or racemes ; involucres calycoid, small, rarely membranous, 
when 1-flowered bilabiate, posticous lip entire, anticous bifid or bilobed, trifid 
_or trilobed or tripartite to near the base, each tooth opposite a flower, when 
3-4-flowered then subregularly tripartite and often with a second smaller 
involucre containing a rudimentary flower; bracts subtending the secondary 
peduncles or the involucres solitary, usually linear or ianceolate ; perianth villous 
or tomentose, 
DistriB. Species 21, confined to the south-western coast region of Cape 
Colony, excepting 1 species which occurs in the Prince Albert Division. 
*Involucres 1-flowered, not containing a second rudi- 
mentary involucre : 
Involucres more or less membranous, nearly glabrous 
outside, midrib of the anticous lip with a line of 
dense hairs up the inside ; three anticous perianth- 
segments at length spirally coiled and reflexed 
. below the limb, the latter long-acuminate ..- (1) squamata. 
Involucres not or scarcely membranous, usually very 
hairy outside; midrib of anticous lip glabrous 
inside (except in 2, ericoides); three anticous 
perianth-segments not or rarely coiled, the limb 
obtuse and not acuminate. 
+Anticous lip of involucre 2-3-fid or 2-3-lobed to about 
the middle or rarely entire : 
Involucres sessile or on stalks less than 4 Jin. long: 
Leaves about } in. long, concave and pilose on the 
upper surface, glabrous and convex below ; 
midrib of anticous lip of involucre hai 
inside = 4. oy, wih LG vii ... (2) ericoides. 
