Spatalla.]  PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 691 
acicular, subobtusely apiculate, narrowed to the base, pilose or 
villous when young, soon becoming glabrous ; heads 1-flowered, in 
pedunculate solitary or 2-3 terminal racemes ; racemes cylindric, 
1-2} in. long, nearly 4 in. in diam. ; peduncle }~1? in. long, 
adpressed-pubescent, with a few subulate subacute puberulous bracts 
about 1 lin. long; subtending bracts about 1} lin. long, linear, 
thinly pubescent ; secondary peduncles slightly shorter than the 
bracts, adpressed-pubescent ; involucre about 1} lin. long, bilabiate, 
densely adpressed-pubescent ; upper lip ovate, entire, lower shortly 
3-toothed ; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, glabrous ; segments 2-21 lin. 
long, linear-spathulate, densely villous; limb about 3 lin. long, 
ovate, subobtuse, villous ; anthers subsessile, } lin. long ; hypogynous 
scales } lin. long, linear; ovary globose, densely villous ; style 
2 lin. long, glabrous ; stigmatic disk 4 lin. long, obovate, with a 
minute conical swelling in the middle ; fruit 2 lin, long, cylindric, 
obtuse, tomentose. S$. pedunculata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
144; Roem. d& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 392; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 306. S$. ramulosa, R. Br. lc. 145, partly ; Roem. & Schultes, lc. 
393, partly ; Meisn. lc. 307, partly. 8. abietina, Roem. & Schultes, 
lc, 397, fide Meisn. l.c. 307. Protea racemosa, Linn. Herb. ex Meisn. 
Ic. 307, not of Linn. Mant. P. abietina, Licht. ex Roem. & Schultes, 
le. 397 ; Willd. ex Meisn. le. 307. P. pedunculata, Poir. Eneyel. 
Suppl. iv. 578. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Bowie ! 
Coast REGION: Cape Div.: Table Mountain, Schlechter, 180a! Stellenbosch 
Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Niven, 36! Zeyher, 3721, partly! Ludwig! Caledon 
Div. ; between Palmiet River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8179! Little Houw 
Hoek, Roxburgh! Baviaans Kloof, Lichtenstein, 112 ; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 
Pappe ! 
7. 8. Galpinii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 334) ; branches 
very shortly pubescent, at length becoming glabrous, reddish-purple ; 
leaves slender, slightly incurved, }—3 in. long, about } lin. in diam., 
subterete, acutely mucronate, narrowly channelled on the upper 
side, adpressed-pilose when young, at length becoming quite 
glabrous; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in shortly pedunculate 
solitary or paired terminal racemes, the latter dense-flowered, 1-1} 
in. long, conical; peduncle about } in. long, shortly and silky- 
pubescent ; subtending bracts about 2} lin. long, linear, subacute, 
ciliate towards the base, exceeding or subequalling the secondary 
peduncles, the latter 2 lin. long, silky-pubescent ; involucre 1} lin. 
long, bilabiate, adpressed-pilose outside; upper lip entire, ovate- 
_ lanceolate, lower 3-toothed (2-toothed in Galpin, 4485), teeth ovate, 
acute ; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, glabrous; segments 2} lin. long, 
claw more shortly villous than the limb, the latter } lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, subacute; anthers sessile, rounded ; hypogynous 
scales 3 lin. long, linear ; ovary densely villous ; style 13 lin. long, 
subterete ; stigmatic disk } lin. long, obovate. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Thom, 939! 
