696 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). = [Spatalla. 
more or less adpressed-pilose; spikes 2-3 terminating each shoot, 
conical when young, 1-1} in. long; bracts 2} lin. long, linear- 
subulate, acute, pubescent on the back, ciliate, exceeding the in- 
volucres in the young inflorescence, at length somewhat shorter ; 
involucre I-flowered, 2 lin. long, bilabiate, pubescent outside ; upper 
lip entire, lower deeply tripartite, segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
ciliate ; perianth-tube shorter than the claws of the segments, 
glabrous ; segments 1? lin. long, linear-spathulate, claw tomentose ; 
limb } lin. long, ovate, subobtuse, long-villous outside; anthers 
sessile ; ovary whitish-villous ; style 2? lin. long, terete, glabrous ; 
stigmatic disk } lin. long, rectangular, with a minute central conical 
production ; fruits shortly stipitate, 1} lin. long, ellipsoid, pubescent. 
S. sericea, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 308, as to following syn., not of 
R. Br. Phylica abietina, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
65, 210, not of Eckl. & Zeyh. 
Coast Recton: Riversdale Div. ; Platte Kloof, Niven! George Div. ; Montagu 
Pass, Schlechter, 5831! 
Centrat Recton: Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwartberg Range, Drege ! 
18. §. Wallichii (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 336); a much- 
branched shrub; branches yerticillate, tomentose or woolly-pubes- 
cent, at length becoming glabrous; leaves 3-4 lin. long, subterete,. 
very acutely mucronate, somewhat incurved towards the apex, 
pilose, at length glabrous ; involucres 3—4-flowered, arranged in 
shortly pedunculate solitary or 2-3 terminal racemes, the latter 
#1 in. long, few-flowered ; secondary peduncles 1 lin. long, 
villous ; subtending bracts 2 lin. long, lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, 3—-5-nerved, pilose outside ; involucre 2 lin. long, sub- 
regularly tripartite to near the base ; segments ovate; perianth- 
tube 1 lin. long, glabrous towards the base; segments 24 lin. 
long, linear-spathulate, villous outside ; limb 2 lin. long, ovate, 
subacute; anthers rounded ; hypogynous scales small; ovary 
obovoid, densely pilose ; style 2} lin. long, terete, curved above ;. 
stigmatic disk } lin. long, obovate, with a minute central conical 
projection ; fruit shortly stipitate, 2} lin. long, ellipsoid, pilose, 
tipped by the persistent style. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, Wallich! 
19. §. mucronifolia (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 335) ; 
branches pubescent or almost tomentose ; leaves 5-81 lin. long, 
suberect, subterete, very acutely and rather abruptly mucronate, 
thinly pilose ; involucre 3-flowered, arranged in sessile or shortly 
pedunculate solitary or 2-5 terminal racemes; racemes 1-1} in. 
long; subtending bracts 2 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, pilose, equalling or slightly exceeding the secondary peduncles, 
the latter 1} lin. long, pubescent; involucre 24 lin. long, sub- 
regularly tripartite to the base; segments 2 lin. long, ovate, shortly 
acutely acuminate, ciliate; perianth-tube 4—? lin. long, pubescent 
