694 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). — [Spatadla. 
pubescent; involucre 2 lin. long, bilabiate, pubescent outside ; 
upper lip linear-lanceolate, entire, lower tripartite almost to the 
base, segments linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate ; perianth-tube 
short, nearly glabrous; segments 3 lin. long, linear-spathulate, 
villous outside; limb ovate, subacute, villous outside ; anthers 
sessile; ovary pilose; style 24 lin. long, subterete, glabrous ; 
stigmatic disk 4 lin. long, obovate; fruit 1} lin. long, brown, 
ellipsoid, pilose. S. polystachya, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 148; 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 395 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 308. 
Protea polystachya, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 579. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! : 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Zoetemelks Valley, Niven! mountains of 
Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7796 ! 
13. 8. parilis (Knight, Prot. 75); a shrub about 5 ft. high ; 
branches pilose ; leaves erect or suberect, never recurved, $—} in. 
long, terete, acutely mucronate, silky-pilose when young, at length 
becoming glabrous ; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in sessile solitary 
terminal racemes, the latter more or less conical, 1-1} in. long ; 
subtending bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear, acutely mucronate, silky- 
pubescent, exceeding the secondary peduncles, the latter 1-1} lin. 
long, pubescent ; involucre 24 lin. long, bilabiate, pilose outside ; 
upper Jip entire, lanceolate, acute; lower lip tripartite to near the 
base, segments 1} lin. long, subulate, very acute ; perianth-tube 
about 3 lin. long, glabrous; segments 3-34 lin. long, linear- 
spathulate, densely villous outside ; limb ovate, subacute ; anthers 
rounded ; hypogynous scales small; ovary ellipsoid, villous ; style 
2} lin. long, subterete, bent above ; stigmatic disk obovate, with a 
minute conical projection in the middle. S. pyramidalis, R. Br. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 148; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 399 5 
Meisn. in DOC. Prodr. xiv. 308. Protea pyramidalis, Poir. Encycel. 
Suppl. iv. 578. 
Sourn Arrica ; without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Recioy : Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, Roxburgh! 
Mund, 53! Bolus, 8094! and Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 686! Riversdale 
Div. ; near the waterfall at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6988 ; lower part of the 
Langeberg Range at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6955 ! Schlechter, 1772! Galpin, 4488 ! 
Phillips, 511! : 
14. §. Bolusii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 333) ; branches 
whitish-villous; leaves 1-3 in. long, suberect, slightly incurved, 
terete, acutely mucronate, thinly and spreadingly villous ; involucres 
1-flowered, arranged in sessile solitary terminal racemes ; racemes 
ovoid or ellipsoid, $1 in. long; bracts 2-3 lin. long, linear, acute, 
pilose, reaching the top of the involucre ; secondary peduncles 3-1 
lin. long, pilose ; involucre 1? lin. long, bilabiate, acdpressed-pilose 
outside; upper lip subulate-lanceolate, entire, lower tripartite to 
near the base; segments subulate-lanceolate, acute ; perianth-tube 
about } lin. long, glabrous; segments 2-2} lin. long, linear- 
