Spatallopsis.| PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). 701 
perianth-tube 1} lin. long, glabrous ; segments 1? lin. long, linear, 
villous ; limb ovate, obtuse, densely villous; hypogynous scales 
small; ovary ? lin. long, villous; style 2? lin. long, cylindric, 
glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, subconic ; fruits shortly stipitate, 1 lin. 
long, obovoid, hirsute. Spatalla propingua, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. x. 150; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 309. Sorocephalus setaceus, 
R. Br. le. 140% Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 389; Meisn. 
Le, 303. Protea australis, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 579. Soranthe 
setacea, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 582. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Auge! Roxburgh ! 
XIII. SOROCEPHALUS, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth cylindric and 
straight in bud with an ellipsoid or ovoid limb, 4-partite to near the 
hase ; segments differentiated into claw and limb ; claws straight or 
spirally twisted in the open flower, hairy ; limb more or less elliptic 
or ovate, obtuse or subobtuse, usually villous, rarely pubescent or 
entirely glabrous. Stamens 4; anthers all perfect, ovoid or ellipsoid, 
sessile or subsessile, inserted at the base of the limb; connective 
mostly slightly produced at the apex. Hypogynous scales 4, free, 
linear, Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, hairy; style slender, 
terete, straight, often constricted at the base, glabrous; stigma 
terminal, conical, ellipsoid or subglobose, obtuse. Ovule 1, laterally 
attached. Fruit a usually glabrescent shining ellipsoid or cylindric 
sessile or shortly stipitate nut with a more or less hardened pericarp. 
Small erect shrubs ; leaves numerous, usually erect, terete or subterete, rarely 
‘quite flat, acutely or obtusely mucronate, smooth or slightly scabrous, glabrous or 
thinly pilose ; flower-heads 2-6-flowered, arranged in dense short spikes or racemes, 
‘each head subtended by a more or less membranous glabrous or hairy bract ; floral 
bracts free from one another, similar to the preceding. 
DistriB, Species 13, confined to the South-Western portion of Cape Colony. 
The name Sorocephalus, R. Br. (1810), is here retained in favour of Soranthe, 
Knight (1809), on account of its inclusion in the list of nomina conservanda 
adopted by the members of the Vienna Congress in 1905. 
Perianth-limb glabrous : 
Branches rough with the scars of fallen leaves ; branch- 
lets short ; leaves $#-lin. long... ee ..» (1) imberbis, 
Branches leafy, smooth ; branchlets elongated ; leaves 
1-2} in. long: 
Flower-clusters ovoid ; bracts densely villous outside ( 2) longifolius. 
Flower-clusters depressed-globose ; bracts glabrous 
or nearly so outside ae es sc: ..- (3) seabridus. 
Perianth-limb hairy, usually villously bearded: | 
Leaves 14-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, flat, with distinct 
lateral nerves or ribs, scabrous ; bracts glandular- ; 
hairy ... ee ve ‘ see --- (4) imbricatus. 
Leaves usually less than 1 lin. broad, linear, terete or 
flat only on the upper surface, not nerved, rarely 
scabrous ; bracts never glandular : 
