690 pROTEACEs (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [Spatalla. 
glabrous ; heads 1-flowered, in sessile terminal solitary racemes ; 
racemes 3-1 in. long ; subtending bracts 1} lin. long, linear, acute, 
ciliate ; secondary peduncles 1 lin. long, pilose ; involucre 1} lin. 
long, bilabiate, densely pilose outside, long-setose within at the base- 
but otherwise glabrous; upper lip entire, ovate, lower entire or 
bifid, teeth ovate, acute ; perianth-tube ? lin. long, \ glabrous ; 
segments 1} lin. long, linear-spathulate, densely tomentose ; limb. 
1 lin. long, ovate, subobtuse, densely villous outside ; anthers sessile, 
lin. long, oblong ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; ovary 
4 lin. long, shortly pilose ; style 1} lin. long, cylindric, slightly 
pubescent for a short distance at the base; stigmatic disk } lin. 
long, lateral, obovate, with a small conical swelling in the middle. 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 392 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 306.. 
S. pilosa, Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 335. Protea mollis, Poir. 
Encyel. Suppl. iv. 577 not of 567. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
Coast Recion : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
3720 partly! 
There are several specimens on the type sheet at the British Museum, and the 
lower lip of the involucre is sometimes entire and bifid on the same inflorescence. 
5. 8. longifolia (Knight, Prot. 77); a shrub 4-7 ft. high; 
branches permanently adpressed-pubescent with whitish hairs ;. 
leaves 14-14 in. long, 3 lin. thick, incurved, terete, acutely 
apiculate, slightly narrowed to the base, narrowly channelled on 
the upper side, pubescent when young, at length becoming glabrous ;. 
heads 1-flowered, in pedunculate solitary or 2 terminal racemes ; 
racemes cylindric, 14-2 in. long, over } in. in diam. ; peduncle: 
about 1 in. long, silky-pubescent, bearing a few subulate pubescent 
bracts about 1} lin. long; subtending bracts 3-4 lin. long, 
foliaceous, subacutely apiculate, silky-pilose ; secondary peduncles 
about half as long as the bracts, adpressed-pubescent ; involucre 
1} lin. long, bilabiate, silky-pilose outside ; upper lip ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, lower trilobed to about the middle ; perianth-tube { lin. long, 
glabrous towards the base ; segments 2—2} lin. long, linear-spathu- 
late, tomentose ; limb 4 lin. long, ovate, subacute, villous ; anthers 
sessile, } lin. long; ovary 3 lin. long, subglobose, densely villous ; 
style 2 lin. long, cylindrical ; stigmatic disk } lin. long, obovate. 
S. nivea, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 145 ; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. iii, 392 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 307. 8. bracteata, R. Br. 
lc. 146; Roem. & Schultes, lc. 394; Meisn. l.c. 308. Protea nived, 
rise Encycl. Suppl. iv. 578. P. bracteolaris, Poir. l.c., excl, syn. 
nn. 
South ArrIca: without locality, Niven! Masson ! 
Coast Reaion: Paarl Div. ; French Hoek, Niven, 37 ! 
6. S. curvifolia (Knight, Prot. 77); a small shrub up to 
3 ft. high; branches silky-pubescent when young, soon becoming 
glabrous ; leaves $—1} in. long, 3-} lin. thick, strongly ineurved,. 
