700 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Spatallopsis.. 
pilose ; involucres 3—4-flowered, arranged in solitary or more often 
2—4 terminal spikes, the latter }-1 in. long, more or less cylindric ; 
subtending bracts about 2 lin. long, linear or linear-subulate, subacute, 
ciliate, shortly pubescent ; involucre rather unequally 4-partite, the 
abaxial lobe a little narrower than the others, which are about 14 lin. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, thinly pubescent outside ; perianth- 
tube 1} lin. long, sparingly pubescent ; segments 2 lin. long, with a- 
filiform pubescent claw and an ovate obtuse more densely and 
longer-pubescent limb ; anthers ellipsoid, sessile ; hypogynous scales 
; lin. long, linear, acute ; ovary densely pilose; style } in. long ;. 
stigma more or less ovoid, about } lin. long ; fruit obovoid, nearly 
2 lin. long, tipped by the persistent style, pilose. Spatalla ericefolia, 
Knight, Prot. 74. 8. brevifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 151. 
S. confusa, Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 289, as to Schlechter, 
10180, 10225. Sorocephalus tulbaghensis, Phillips, l.c. 1911, 86. 
_ Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson! and without locality, Herb. Forsyth 
in Herb. Kew, ! 
Coast Reaion: Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, Pappe! 
Centra Reaion: Ceres Div.; Verkeerde Viey, Niven ! Schoongezigt, Schlechter, 
10180! Gydow Berg, Schlechter, 10225 ! 
4. §. caudeflora (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 289) ; branches. 
pilose, at length becoming glabrous and purplish ; leaves 3-44 lin. 
long, linear, widely grooved on the upper side, convex below, 
sharply and conspicuously mucronate, thinly pilose with long weak 
hairs ; involucres 3—4-flowered, arranged in terminal solitary spikes. 
1-1} in. long ; subtending bracts 24 lin. long scarcely 1 lin. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, villous outside; involucre unequally 4-partite ; 
segments about 2 lin. long, more or less ovate, acute, villous outside ;. 
perianth-tube 1 lin. long, glabrous towards the base ; segments 1? 
lin, long, with a linear pubescent claw and an elliptic obtuse villous 
limb, the latter 4 lin. long; anthers ellipsoid ; hypogynous scales 
+ lin. long, linear ; ovary shortly stipitate, densely pubescent ; style 
~{ lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma broadly clavate ; fruit 1} lin. 
long, shortly stipitate, oblong-cylindric, hirsute. Spatalla caudzflora, 
Knight, Prot. 75, excl. Protea caudatn, Thunb., partly. S. Thunbergii, 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 150; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 
396; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 310, excel. var. Dregei. Protea 
caudata, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 26, as to description, ex R. Br. lc. 
SourH AFrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast REGion : Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, Niven ! 
5. 8. propinqua (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 290) ; branches 
sparingly pilose ; leaves 8-10 lin. long, acutely mucronate, channelled 
on the upper surface, pilose ; involucres 3—4-flowered, arranged in 
crowded terminal racemes, the latter 2-3 in. long; subtending 
bracts 25 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute, puberulous outside ; 
secondary peduncles 4 lin. long, pubescent ; involucre subregularly 
4-partite to near the base; segments broadly ovate, acute, ciliate ; 
