Spatalla.] PROTEACE% (Phillips & Hutchinson). 689 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.: Koude River, Schlechter, 9612! near Elim, 
Bolus, 7666! 7867 ! 
Meisner places this species amongst the set with 3-4-flowered involucres. His 
type however is very imperfect and almost devoid of flowers, but the specimens 
‘quoted above, which seem to be the same, all have 1-flowered involucres. 
2. 8. ericoides (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 334) ; branches 
thinly adpressed-pilose ; leaves 3-4 lin. long, erect, ericoid, subacute, 
thinly pilose and concave on the upper surface, glabrous and convex 
below ; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in solitary sessile terminal 
spikes ; spikes cylindric, about 1 in. long ; subtending bracts 2 lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, membranous, long adpressed- 
villous outside ; involucre about 2 lin. long, bilabiate, silky-villous 
outside, with a ring of long hairs at the base within and a line of 
hairs extending from the base up the inside of the midrib of the 
-anticous lip; posticous lip ovate, entire, anticous 3-toothed, teeth ovate, 
subacute ; perianth-tube very short, glabrous ; segments 3-34 lin. long, 
linear-spathulate ; claw shortly tomentellous; limb ovate, obtuse, 
villous outside ; anthers sessile; hypogynous scales } lin. long, 
linear; ovary villous; style 24 lin. long, subterete, glabrous ; 
stigmatic disk } lin. long, obovate, flat on the face. 
Sour Arrica : without locality or collector’s name in the Capetown and Kew 
Herbaria ! 
3. 8. sericea (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 147); branches 
adpressed-pilose ; leaves $—? in. long, terete except for a single very 
narrow groove on the upper side, silky-pilose except when old ; 
involucres 1-flowered, arranged in sessile solitary terminal spikes ; 
spikes }—1 in. long, ovate-lanceolate ; subtending bracts 2} lin. long, 
linear, acute, pilose, equalling or slightly exceeding the involucre ; 
involucre about 1} lin. long, bilabiate, pilose outside, glabrous 
within except for a ring of hairs at the base ; upper lip lanceolate, 
entire, lower trilobed to near the middle, lobes lanceolate, acute ; 
perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 24 lin. long, linear- 
spathulate ; claw tomentose ; limb } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, villous 
outside ; anthers sessile; hypogynous scales j lin. long, linear ; 
ovary villous; style 2} lin. long, subterete, glabrous; stigmatic 
disk } lin. long, obovate, with a minute central conical stigma. 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 394; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 308, 
excl. syn. E. Meyer. 8S. ramulosa, Sieber ex Meisn. l.c., name only. 
S. polystachya, Zeyher ex Meisn. l.c., name only, not of R. Br. 
Protea sericifolia, Poir, Encyel. Suppl. iv. 578. : 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh! Sieber, 471! 
Coast Recion: George Div. ; north of Cradock Berg, Thom, 505! Uniondale 
Div. ; Lange Kloof, Mund! 
4. §. mollis (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 144); branches long- 
pilose ; leaves }—3 in. long, terete, subacutely apiculate, minutely 
punctate, long and rather thinly pilose, at length becoming nearly 
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