Spatallopsis.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 699 
1. §. confusa (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 289, partly) ; 
branches sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaves 34—5 lin. 
long, 4—} lin. thick, subacute, glabrous except when quite young ; 
involucres 2—3-flowered, arranged in subsessile terminal solitary or 
subsolitary racemes, the latter }—-1 in. long; subtending bracts as 
long as the secondary peduncles, glabrous or nearly so, minutely 
ciliolate ; secondary peduncles 1 lin. long, whitish-pubescent ; 
involucre rather unequally 4-partite, glabrous outside; perianth- 
tube 14 lin. long, glabrous ; segments 2 lin. long, with a linear- 
filiform minutely puberulous or nearly glabrous claw, and an 
ovate-elliptic obtuse whitish-villous limb; anthers sessile; hypo- 
gynous scales $ lin. long; ovary villous; style 2? lin. long, filiform, 
glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, clavate. Spatalla brevifolia, E. Meyer 
in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 74, 222, not of R. Br. 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ezelsbank, Drége, 8079 ! Schlechter, 8838 ! 
CENTRAL ReGion: Prince Albert Div. ; Zwartberg Pass, Bolus, 11627 ! 
2. 8. caudata (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 290); branches 
sparingly pilose when young, soon becoming glabrous or nearly so ; 
leaves somewhat spreading and arcuate, 6-7 lin. long, about } lin. 
broad, acutely mucronate, widely channelled on the upper side, 
convex below, thinly pubescent or pilose when young, soon becoming 
quite glabrous ; involucres 3—4-flowered, arranged in sessile solitary 
or 3—4 terminal racemes, the latter 1-2} in. long ; subtending bracts 
24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, gradually and subacutely 
acuminate, membranous, glabrous on both sides, very sparingly 
ciliate ; secondary peduncles $ lin. long, pubescent ; involucre sub- 
regularly 4-partite to near the base ; segments 2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. 
broad, ovate, acute, glabrous or thinly pubescent outside, sparingly 
ciliate ; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, glabrous; segments 2 lin. long, 
with a linear tomentose claw and an ovate obtuse villous limb; 
anthers } lin. long; hypogynous scales small and filiform ; ovary 
obovoid, villous; style 24 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 
obconic ; fruit shortly stipitate, 2 lin. long, ellipsoid, pubescent. 
Spatalla caudeflora, Knight, Prot. 75, as to syn. Protea caudata, 
Thunb., partly. S. caudata, R. “Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 150; 
Roem, & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 396 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 310, 
Protea caudata, Thunb. Diss. Prot, t. 2, not description, ex R. Br. lc. 
Sovury AFrica: without locality, Thunberg! Herb. Forsyth in Herb. Kew. ! 
Coast Rrecion: Caledon Div. ; Palmiet River, Masson ! 
The specimens named Protea caudata in Thunberg’s own Herbarium are all 
identical with the above and evidently the plant figured by him, Another, 
however, collected by him and in Baron Alstrémer’s Herbarium at Stockholm is 
evidently the one he described, which is 8. caudwflora. 
3. 8. ericefolia (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 288) ; branches 
purplish, pilose ; leaves erect, 2}~3 lin. long, obtuse or subobtuse, 
very slightly incurved towards the apex, broadly channelled on the 
upper side, convex below, about } lin. broad, slightly shining, thinly 
