Sorocephalus.] PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). 707 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh! Niven, Ludwig, Ecklon, 17. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div. ; summit of mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near 
Genadendal, Krauss, 1058. 
il. 8. rupestris (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 86); an alpine 
shrublet ; branches blackish-villous, at length becoming nearly 
glabrous and closely tubercled with the projections left by the fallen 
leaves ; leaves } in. long, scarcely } lin. thick, subacutely mucronate, 
nearly terete, thinly pilose when young, soon becoming quite 
glabrous ; heads 1-flowered, arranged in a solitary dense subglobose 
spike nearly ? in. in diam. ; subtending bract about 1? lin. long, 
lanceolate, rusty-villous outside ; floral bracts 2-21 lin. long, lanceo- 
late, subacute, keeled and pubescent on the back, ciliate ; perianth- 
tube 1 lin. iong, cylindric, glabrous towards the base, pubescent 
above; segments nearly 4 lin. long; claws slender, not spirally 
twisted, pubescent; limb 4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
tomentose outside; anthers scarcely } lin. long; ovary nearly 
glabrous ; style 3-4 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, 
ellipsoid, obtuse; fruits obovoid, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. in diam., 
shining, nearly glabrous. Soranthe rupestris, Knight, Prot. 72. S. 
montana, Knight, l.c. 73. 
Coast Raton : Stellenbosch Div. ; tops of Stellenbosch Mountains, Niven, 28 ! 
Caledon Div. ; mouth of the Klein River, Niven ! 
12. 8. teretifolius (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 85) ; branches 
minutely pubescent ; leaves } in. long, about } lin. thick, narrowly 
grooved on the upper side, otherwise terete, thinly and weakly 
pilose when quite young, soon becoming glabrous ; heads terminal, 
in clusters of 2-3, shortly pedunculate, several-flowered, subglobose, 
about $ in. in diam. ; peduncles up to } in. long, tomentose ; bracts 
oblong, coriaceous, nearly glabrous ; bracts subtending the flowers 
3—4 lin. long, linear-oblong, subacute, coriaceous, convex and thinly 
villous outside, more densely villous towards the apex ; perianth- 
tube 1-1} lin. long, narrowly cylindric, glabrous towards the base, 
pubescent above; segments about 3 lin. long; claws spirally 
twisted and pubescent; limb 3 lin. long, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 
densely villous outside ; anthers } lin. long; ovary ellipsoid, acute 
at both ends, nearly glabrous ; style 34 lin. long, slender, constricted 
at the base, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse ; 
fruits 2} lin. long, 1} lin. in diam., oblong, ellipsoid, smooth, dull 
brown, glabrous. S. lanatus, Buek in Drege, Zwei Pf. Documente, 
82, 222, not of R. Br. 8S. lanatus, var. teretifolius, Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 305, Leucadendron? scoparium, E. Meyer, ex Meisn. le. 
(as to specimen a in Herb. Drége). 
Coast Region: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Dréze ! 
13. 8. crassifolius (Hutchinson) ; branches densely and shortly 
tomentellous ; leaves }-1 in. long, 3 lin. thick, terete except a 
narrow groove on the upper side, subacutely mucronate, glabrous ; 
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