712 PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Niventia. 
116, 204, not of R. Br. N. marginata, Drege, and N. parvifolia, Buek 
ex Meisn. 1.c. 300, names only. Protea spathulata, Thunb. Diss, Prot. 
44, eacl. fig.; Prodr. 28 ; Lam. Iliustr. 1. 235; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 533 ; 
Poir. Encyel. v. 642; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 125. Paranomus 
ys 98 ed Knight, Prot. 70. P. marginatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
1. ii. 580. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Lindley! Roxburgh! 
Coast Recron: Swellendam Div. ; between Spaarbosch and Tradouw, Drége ! 
Riversdale Div. ; Platte Kloof, Masson! between Garcias Pass and Muis Kraal, 
Bolus, 11363! 
4. N. Muirii (Phillips & Hutchinson); branches terete, quite 
glabrous, bark purplish; leaves dimorphic ; the lower 24-3 lin. 
long, flabellately divided in the upper half, with the segments linear 
or linear-oblanceolate, convex below, concave above, obtuse, glabrous ; 
the upper 1-1} in. long, 3-1} in. broad, suborbicular or flabellate, 
obtusely mucronate, abruptly narrowed to the base, erect, entire, 
rigidly coriaceous, distinctly nerved, dull and glabrous on both 
surfaces, with purplish subtranslucent margins ; heads 4-flowered, 
spicate ; spikes terminal, solitary, sessile, about 4 in. long, } in. 
in diam., cylindric; flowering axis densely tomentose or villous, 
bearing lanceolate obtuse densely villous bracts 4-5 lin. long; 
floral bracts 4, 4-6 lin. long, 2-3} lin. broad, oblong or oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, glabrous and shining within, densely white silky- 
tomentose outside; flowers surrounded at the base by numerous 
long white hairs; perianth-tube } lin. long, glabrous towards the 
base ; segments 6} lin. long; claws straight in the open flower, 
white-villous outside ; limb 1} lin. long, acuminate, densely white- 
villous outside ; anthers linear, 1 lin. long ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. 
long, linear, acute ; ovary subcylindric, long-villous with white 
hairs in the lower half, otherwise minutely puberulous; style $ in. 
long, slender, gradually passing into the stigma which is 1 lin. long, 
clavate, subobtuse ; fruits 24 lin. long, cylindric, subobtuse, shortly 
pubescent and with a ring of long white hairs round the base. 
Coast Recon: Riversdale Div. ; mountains at Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4481! 
Kampsche Berg, Muir, 276! 
_5. N. Sceptrum (R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 134); a shrub 4-5 ft. 
high, erect, branched ; branches ascending, terete, shortly pubescent 
or glabrous; leaves dimorphic; the lower up to 4 in. long, 
bipinnately divided in the upper 2, with the ultimate segments 
3-1} in. long, 2-3} lin. broad, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, 
glabrous, margins incurved ; the upper erect, entire, 14-23 in. long, 
cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate, with an obtuse callous apex; 
gradually narrowed to the petiolar base, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous 
on both surfaces, often distinctly nerved, margins not or scarcely 
cartilaginous ; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes terminal, solitary, 
subsessile or shortly pedunculate, 14-2} in. long, about 1 in. In 
diam., subcylindric ; flowering axis “tomentose ;_ bract subtending 
