698. - PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Spatalla. 
tripartite ; segments lanceolate, pubescent ; perianth-tube 1 lin. 
Jong, sparingly pubescent; segments about 4 lin. long ; claws 
shortly villous, the adaxial one straight, the other three spirally 
coiled in the open flower; limb ovate, villous; anthers oblong ; 
hypogynous scales linear-lanceolate ; ovary pubescent ; style about 
5 lin. long, curved, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, subovoid, obtuse ; 
fruits sessile, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong-ellipsoid, subacute, 
pubescent. Sorocephalus spatalloides, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
x. 141; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 390 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 304. 
Coast Region: Caledon Diy. ; Zwart Berg, Niven, 29! Mund! 
XII. SPATALLOPSIS, Phillips. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth straight and 
cylindric in bud with an ellipsoid limb, 4-partite to below the 
middle; tube glabrous or nearly so; segments differentiated into 
a slender hairy claw and an elliptic or ovate obtuse villous limb, 
the latter often becoming recurved. Stamens 4 ; anthers ellipsoid, 
sessile, inserted at the base of the limb; connective slightly pro- 
duced into a small globular point. Hypogynous scales 4, free, 
linear. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy; style slender, terete, 
often slightly bent towards the apex, subpersistent, glabrous ; 
stigma conical or subclavate, terminal. Ovule 1, laterally attached. 
Fruits as in Spatalla. 
Habit of Spataila ; flowers in 3—4-flowered involucres arranged in terminal spikes 
or racemes ; involucres calycoid, small, more or less regularly 4-partite to near the 
base ; bract subtending the secondary peduncles or the involucre solitary, linear to 
ovate ; perianth tomentose or villous. 
DisrriB, Species 5, confined to the South-Western Region of Cape Colony. 
Involucres and subtending bracts glabrous or nearly so 
outside, the latter very shortly ciliolate or glabrous 
on the margin ; leaves quite glabrous when mature : 
Leaves 34-5 lin. long, subacute; subtending bracts 
1 lin. long, reaching to the base of the involucre (1) confusa. 
Leaves 6-7 lin. long, acutely mucronate ; subtending 
bracts 24 lin. long, reaching almost to the top of 
the involuere... eee Bae ye we ... (2) caudata. 
Involucres and subtending bracts densely pubescent or 
villous, the latter ciliate, or when both only slightly 
pubescent then the leaves permanently pilose with 
long weak hairs: 
Leaves 24-44 lin. long: 
Leaves 24-3 (rarely 4) lin. long, obtuse or subobtuse ; 
spikes mostly several together; bracts and " 
involucres shortly whitish-pubescent ... ... (3) ericeefolia. 
Leaves 3-44 lin. long, sharply and conspicuously 
mucronate ; spikes solitary; bracts and in- 
volucres rusty-villous .,. eg we ... (4) caudefiora. 
Leaves 8-10 lin. long .... dc sn) ene. vee, (5) PrOpinguA. 
