Spatalla.| | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 695. 
Coast Recton: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, near 
Lowrys Pass, MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1762! and without number in the 
Cape Herbarium ! 
10. 8. cylindrica (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 334) ; branches 
adpressed-pilose when young, at length glabrous where devoid of 
leaves ; leaves 1-14 in. long, subterete, obtuse, adpressed-villous, at 
length becoming glabrous ; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in sessile 
solitary terminal racemes; racemes 13-2 in. long, more or less 
. cylindric ; subtending bracts 4} lin. long, subterete, with a slightly 
swollen callous obtuse apex, ciliate towards the base, exceeding the 
secondary peduncles, the latter 14-2 lin. long, shortly pubescent ; 
involucre 1 lin. long, bilabiate, adpressed-pilose outside; upper lip 
ovate-lanceolate, entire, lower 3-lobed to about the middle, lobes 
ovate, subacute ; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous; segments 
about 24 lin. long, linear-spathulate; claw whitish-tomentose ; 
limb ovate, subacute, densely villous outside ; anthers } lin. long, 
rounded ; hypogynous scales 3 lin. long, linear; ovary subglobose, 
villous; style 2 lin. long, subterete; stigmatic disk } lin. long, 
obovate. 
Coast Recon: Stellenbosch Div. ; mountains of Lowry’s Pass, Burchell, 8212! 
Schlechter, 7230! 
11. 8. colorata (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 308); a shrub up to 
14 ft. high ; branches glabrous, bark reddish-purple ; leaves $—} in. 
long, terete, acutely mucronate, glabrous ; involucres 1-flowered, 
arranged in sessile solitary terminal racemes ; racemes }—} in. long ; 
subtending bracts 2 lin. long, linear, acute, long-ciliate ; secondary 
peduncles nearly 1 lin. long, slightly pubescent ; involucre 1} lin. 
long, bilabiate, pilose outside ; upper lip subulate-lanceolate, entire, 
lower tripartite almost to the base, segments subulate-lanceolate, 
acute, long-ciliate ; perianth-tube about 1 lin. long, as long as the 
claw, glabrous ; segments about 2 lin. long, linear-spathulate, villous 
outside; limb elliptic, obtuse, densely villous outside ; anthers 
sessile ; hypogynous scales } lin. long, narrowly linear; ovary 
pubescent ; style 24 lin. long, slender, subterete, bent near the 
apex ; stigmatic disk oblique, } lin. long, obovate. 
Sourn AFRIca: without locality, Ecklon, 18! 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; by the River Zondereinde, near Appels 
Kraal, Zeyher, 8718! Knofflooks Kraal, Pappe! 
12. S. bombycina (Knight, Prot. 76); an erect shrub 4 ft. high ; 
branches leafy, silky-villous ; leaves }-1 in. long, arcuate, spreading 
almost at right angles, at length partially reflexed, subterete, long 
and acutely mucronate, silky-pilose, becoming nearly glabrous when 
old; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in pedunculate racemes in 
terminal clusters of 3-4; racemes 1-1} in. long; peduncles about 
4 lin. long, pilose ; subtending bracts 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, pubescent ; secondary peduncles 1 lin. long, 
