Sorocephalus.| PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). T05- 
Suppl. iv. 576. Soranthe pinifolia, Knight, Prot. 72. 8S. imberbis,. 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 582. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div. ; Tyger Hoek, Niven! 
2. §. longifolius (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 85) ; branches. 
densely pilose when young, soon becoming glabrous, with a purplish 
smooth bark ; leaves erect, 1-24 in. long, almost filiform, long and 
acutely apiculate, terete except for a narrow groove on the upper 
surface, glabrous ; heads 7 —9-flowered, crowded in dense terminal 
racemes 3-1 in. long; bracts subtending the secondary peduncles 
4 in. long, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, densely pubescent or 
villous outside ; secondary peduncles about 1 lin. long, pubescent or 
tomentose; floral bracts similar to the others but narrower ; 
perianth-tube about 1 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous towards the 
base ; segments 32 lin. long; claws villous, spirally coiled ; limb 
3 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, quite glabrous ; anthers i lin. long ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; ovary ellipsoid, pubescent or 
nearly glabrous ; style 4 lin. long, terete, glabrous ; stigma } lin. 
long, ovoid, obtuse ; fruits 3 lin. long, ellipsoid-cylindric, obtuse,. 
slightly wrinkled, shining, glabrous. Sorocephalus imberbis, var. 
longifolius, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 303. 
Coast REcion: Swellendam Div. ; banks of the Zondereinde River, near 
Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3718! 
3. §. scabridus (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 303) ; branches slender, 
very thinly pilose when young ; leaves erect, 1-1} in. long, almost 
filiform, subacutely apiculate, terete except for a narrow groove on 
the upper surface, very thinly pilose when young, soon becoming 
scabrous ; heads sessile, 2—4-flowered, crowded in  subglobose 
terminal clusters about ? in. in diam. ; bracts subtending the 
individual heads up to 3 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute, glabrous or 
nearly so outside, long-ciliate ; floral bracts similar to the preceding 
but narrow ; perianth-tube very short, nearly glabrous ; segments 
34-4 lin. long ; claws villous, remaining apparently united owing to 
the interlacing hairs; limb 1} lin. long, ovate, obtuse, quite 
glabrous ; anthers sessile ; hypogynous scales very small; ovary 
pubescent ; style slender, 4} lin. long, glabrous ; stigma obovoid, 
4 jin. long ; fruits not seen. S. nivalis, Mund, and S. imberbis, 
Klotzsch ex Meisn. l.c. 304. Soranthe scabrida, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pi. ii. 582. 
Coast Recron : Tulbagh Div. ; Winterhoek Mountain, Zeyher, 3718b! 
4. §. imbricatus (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 142) ; branches. 
pilose, at length’ becoming glabrous ; leaves 3}—5} lin. long, erect 
and densely imbricate, lanceolate, subacutely apiculate, flat, 
distinctly nerved and scabrous on both surfaces, thinly ciliate when 
young, otherwise glabrous, those surrounding the heads coloured ; 
heads 4-flowered, crowded in dense solitary or geminate more or less. 
