710 PROTEACES (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Vivenia. 
Inflorescence usually rather lax; bracts 
shortly tomentose or tomentellous, rarely 
with a few longer hairs towards the 
apex . ae ie eS ..- (11) spicata. 
Mature leaves densely and softly silky-tomentose 
at the time of flowering, rarely becoming 
nearly glabrous in the fruiting stage : 
Leaf-segments } in. long; bracts rounded at 
the apex ; style 6 lin. long aoe ... (12) tomentosa. 
Leaf-segments 3-1 in. long; bracts shortly 
acuminate; style 4 lin. long... ... (13) mollissima. 
1. N. parvifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 155); branches 
subterete, subtomentellous when young, becoming puberulous; 
leaves dimorphic ; the lower up to 34 in. long, 3-4 times dicho- 
tomously divided, with the ultimate segments linear or rarely 
subspathulate, subterete, obtuse or subacute, glabrous ; the upper 
4-1 in. long, entire, broadly spathulate or flabellate, with an obtuse 
triangular apex, much narrowed and _ slender towards the base, 
erect, distinctly nerved, coriaceous, glabrous except when quite 
young and then tomentellous; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes 
terminal, solitary or up to 3 together, sessile or shortly pedunculate, 
up to 3 in. long, more or less cylindric and about j in. in diam. ; 
flowering axis tomentose; bearing linear-subulate acute shortly 
ciliate bracts about 4 lin. long ; floral bracts 4, oblong-oblanceolate, 
rounded at the apex, about 4 lin. long, 2-2) lin. broad, coriaceous, 
silky adpressed-villous outside, glabrous “within; flowers with 
numerous long white hairs round the base ; perianth-tube obconic, 
1 lin. long, glabrous ; segments 4—5 lin. long; claws straight, very 
densely white-villous outside; limb j lin. long, elliptic, obtuse, 
densely villous outside; anthers sessile, 3 lin. long, with the 
connective slightly produced at the apex ; hypogynous scales | lin. 
long, terete; ovary oblique, puberulous ; style } in. long, rather 
stout, hairy on the middle third of its length, otherwise glabrous ; 
stigma capitate, broadly ovoid, nearly } lin. long and broad ; fruits 
ivory-white, smooth and shining, about 4 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, 
acutely beaked, glabrous except for a few long white hairs at the 
base. Roem. d& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 386; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. * 
xiv. 300. N. spathulata, Drege ex Meisn. l.c., name only. N. Scep- 
trum, forma dissecta, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlvili. p. XCV1. 
Protea spathulata, Thunb. Diss. Prot. t.5, excl. his herbarium specumens 
and description. Paranomus adiantifolius, Knight, Prot. 70. P. par- 
vifolius, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 580. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; River Zondereinde, Niven, 201! Knoflooks 
Kraal and Little Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 8717! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 9423 ! 
Pillans ! 
2. N. reflexa (Phillips & Hutchinson); branches puberulous or 
tomentellous, rarely nearly glabrous ; leaves dimorphic ; the lower 
up to 34 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, with the 
ultimate segments linear or rarely oblanceolate, obtuse, concave on 
