706 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Sorocephalus, 
segments 4} lin. long ; claws almost filiform, shortly pubescent, not 
coiled; limb } lin. long, ovate-elliptic, subacute, villous outside ; 
anthers } lin. long; ovary obovoid, pubescent ; style 5 lin. long, 
filiform, constricted at the base, glabrous ; stigma + lin. long, 
ellipsoid, subacute ; fruits nearly 2 lin. long, smooth, beaked. 
Soranthe clavigera, Knight, Prot. 73. 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; French Hoek Kloof, Niven, 40! 
9. 8. tenuifolius (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 141) ; branches 
pilose when young, at length becoming glabrous, purplish ; leaves 
erect, 4—6 lin. long, subulate-linear, acutely or subacutely apiculate, 
subterete except for a narrow groove above, pilose when young; 
soon becoming glabrous ; heads 7-9-flowered, crowded in terminal 
solitary or geminate clusters about 5 lin. in diam. ; bract subtending 
each secondary peduncle 24 lin, long, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or 
subacute, densely ciliate towards the base ; secondary peduncles 
1-2 lin. long, villous; floral bracts 2} lin. long, ovate to lanceolate, 
acute or subacute, villous, ciliate ; perianth-tube 3 lin. long; 
glabrous ; segments 2} lin. long, spathulate-linear ; claws slender, 
villous, not twisting spirally ; limb 4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
5 
obtuse, villous outside ; anthers oblong ; hypogynous scales linear ; 
5 
ovary ellipsoid, pubescent ; style 2} lin. long, slender, glabrous ; 
stigma 1 lin. long, ovoid, obtuse. Roem. d: Schultes, Syst. Veg. iil. 
390; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 77, and in Beitr, zur Fl. Cap- und Natal. 
141 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 304. Protea tenuifolia, Potr. Encyel. 
Suppl. iv. 577. Soranthe tenuifolia, Knight, Prot. 72. 
Coast Recon: Worcester Div. ; Breede River, Niven, 20! Swellendam Div. 3 
Swellendam, Krauss, 1061 ? (ex Meisn. L¢.), 
10. S. salsoloides (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ‘x. 140) ; branches 
erect, glabrous or minutely pubescent ; leaves falcately incurved or 
some nearly straight, 5-8 lin. long, about } lin. broad, terete except 
for a very narrow groove on the upper surface, subacute, glabrous 
except when in young bud ; heads L-flowered, crowded in subglobose 
terminal spikes about } in. in diam. ; subtending bracts up to 1} 
lin. long, acute, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous outside, very shortly 
and sparingly ciliolate ; floral bracts similar to the preceding ; 
perianth-tube } lin. long, nearly glabrous ; segments about 3 lin. 
long; claws straight or slightly curved in the open flower, not 
spirally twisted, pubescent ; limb 1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
obtuse, villously bearded outside ; anthers sessile; hypogynous 
seales small, linear; ovary pubescent ; style about 4} lin. long, 
slender, straight, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, ellipsoid or subclavate ; 
fruits slightly stipitate, about 1 lin. long, broadly ovoid, brow, 
slightly pubescent. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 389 ; Meisn. 1” 
DC. Prodr. xiv. 303; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap- und Natal. 141. 
Protea salsoloides, Poir. Eneycl. Suppl. iv. 576. Soranthe salsolodes, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 582. 
