692 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [Spatadla. 
Coast Recron: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Pappe! 
Caledon Div. ; Klein River, Schlechter, 7608! Hermanus, Galpin, 4485! Bredas- 
dorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 7869 ! 8594! 
8. §. gracilis (Knight, Prot. 77); branches very shortly 
adpressed-pubescent or glabrous; leaves 3-1} in. long, acicular, 
terete, acute or subacute, thinly adpressed-pubescent when young, 
soon becoming quite glabrous; heads 1-flowered, in lax shortly 
pedunculate terminal racemes ; racemes 1}—2 in. long ; bracts about 
1 lin. long, subulate, adpressed-pubescent ; secondary peduncles 
about twice as long as the bracts, shortly pubescent ; involucre 
1 lin. long, bilabiate, silky-pubescent outside ; upper lip entire, ovate, 
lower lip shortly 3-toothed, teeth more or less triangular ; perianth- 
tube ? lin. long, glabrous in the lower part ; segments 1} lin. long, 
linear-spathulate, densely whitish-tomentose ; limb 3 lin. long, ovate, 
densely tomentose ; anthers sessile, } lin. long ; hypogynous scales 
filiform ; ovary 3 lin. long, globose, densely villous ; style 1? lin. 
long, glabrous ; stigmatic disk } lin. long, obovate ; fruit 2 lin. long, 
cylindric, densely pubescent. S. ramulosa, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 145, partly ; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 393 ; Spreng. 
Syst. i. 471 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 307, partly. S. laxa, R. Br. 
lc. 146; Roem. & Schultes, l.c.; Meisn. lc. Leucadendron racemo-— 
sum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed.i.91; Berg. in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 17 66, 
325; Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 23. Protea racemosa, Linn. Mant. alt. 
187; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 25; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 127. 
P. lawa, Poir. Eneycl. Swppl. iv. 578.—Protea foliis setaceis, ete., 
Linn. Hort, Cliff. 496. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Thunberg ! Thom, 699! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Roxburgh! Lichtenstein, 110, 
Ludwig! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Niven, 16! Mund, 52! 
Roxburgh | Zeyher, 77, 3721 partly ! Pappe! Ludwig, Gueinzius | MacOwan, 2726 ! 
Bolus, Herb, Norm, Austr.-Afr., 360! Schlechter, 5465! 7384! Galpin, 4487! 
Pillans! Hermanus, Galpin, 4486! Swellendam Div. ; on mountains, Bowie ! 
9. S. brachyloba (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 333) ; a shrub 
about 1 ft. high; branches terete, pilose or thinly villous when 
young, at length becoming glabrous; leaves } in. long, terete, 
subacutely mucronate, the youngest very scantily pilose, soon 
becoming glabrous; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in sessile - 
solitary or paired terminal racemes; racemes }-1 in. long ; sub- 
tending bracts 1$ lin. long, linear, subacute, adpressed-pilose, 
slightly exceeding the secondary peduncles, the latter 1 lin. long, 
pilose ; involucre 1 lin. long, bilabiate, adpressed-pilose outside ; 
upper lip ovate, entire, lower 3-toothed, teeth ovate, obtuse, 
glabrous within; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous ; segments 
about 2 lin. long, linear-spathulate ; claw villous ; limb elliptic, 
obtuse, densely villous; anthers subsessile ; hypogynous scales 
lanceolate, acuminate, acute ; ovary ovoid, villous ; style 2 lin. long; 
subterete, slightly hairy at the base ; stigmatic disk lateral, } hie- 
long, obovate, with a minute conical central projection. 
