TOS - PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Sorocephalus. 
heads 2—3 together at the apex of a common peduncle, about } in. 
in diam., 4—6-flowered; peduncle up to 5 lin. long, tomentellous ;. 
bracts subtending the flowers about 2 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad 
at the base, long-acuminate, slightly pubescent in the lower, 
glabrous in the upper part; perianth-tube ? lin. long, glabrous. 
below, puberulous above; segments soon becoming reflexed and. 
spirally coiled, about 3 lin, long ; claw tomentellous ; limb scarcely 
1 lin. long, subacute, coriaceous, thinly pubescent outside ; anthers 
% lin. long, narrow ; hypogynous scales very small ; ovary ellipsoid, 
pubescent ; style slightly constricted above the ovary, 34 lin. long, 
slender, glabrous ; stigma } lin. long, narrowly ellipsoid or sub- 
clavate, obtuse ; fruits 14 iin. long, } lin. in diam., narrowly 
obovoid, brown, slightly pubescent. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, Schlechter, 9832! tops of the 
mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7723! 
Imperfectly known species. 
14. §. spatalloides (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 222, 
name only, not of R. Br.). 
Recon? either from Dutoits Kloof in Worcester Div., or from the Great 
Zwartberg Range near Vrolykheid, in Prince Albert Div., Drége ! 
The original specimen in the Stockholm Herbarium is very imperfect; it is 
probably a species ot Leucadendron and may be a form of L, sorocephalodes, 
Phillips & Hutchivson. 
XIV. NIVENIA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth cylindric in 
bud with an ellipsoid limb, 4-partite to near the base ; tube short, 
usually glabrous, rarely villous; segments differentiated into 
slender hairy claw and an elliptic or oblong obtuse or rarely 
apiculate villous limb. Stamens 4; anthers sessile or subsessile, 
inserted at the base of the limb, oblong or elliptic ; connective 
usually very slightly produced at the apex. Hypogynous scales 
linear or subulate. Ovary sessile, pubescent, surrounded by a basal 
ring of hairs; style mostly slender, straight, subpersistent, glabrous, 
or hairy on part of its length; stigma narrowly clavate or sub- 
ellipsoid, gradually passing into the style, rarely broadly ovoid and 
capitate, epapillose. Qvule 1, laterally inserted. Fruit a smooth 
ivory-white shining nut with a basal ring of hairs, often beaked 
and tipped by the persistent basal portion of the style. Seed solitary. 
Small erect shrubs ; leaves usually crowded, dimorphic with the lower variously 
pinnately divided and the upper broadly spathulate or flabellate and tapered to a 
petiolar basal portion, rarely linear or oblanceolate, or all alike and much 
dissected with linear obtuse segments and more or Jess fan-shaped in outline, 
glabrous when mature or rarely permanently silky-tomentose ; flowers in partial 
4-flowered heads, the latter arranged in terminal usually solitary sessile oF 
pedunculate cylindric or rarely subglobose spikes ; partial heads each subtended 
by a solitary coriaceous entire bract; floral bracts 4, imbricate, the two lateral 
