Nivenia. | PROTEACE# (Phillips & Hutchinson), 713 
each partial head about 3 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
subacute, tomentose outside ; floral bracts 4, 2-2} lin. long, about 
14 lin. broad, more or less oblong, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, 
glabrous within, tomentose outside ; flowers surrounded at the 
base by numerous long hairs ; perianth-tube 1-1} lin. long, glabrous 
towards the base; segments 4 in. long; claws shortly tomentose 
outside ; limb 14 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, tomentose outside ; 
anthers 1 lin. long, linear ; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, linear, 
acute; ovary pubescent; style rather slender, 6-7} lin. long, 
glabrous, gradually narrowed into the stigma which is 1 lin. long, 
subcylindric, obtuse ; fruits 3 lin. long, ovoid, shortly beaked, ivory- 
white and shining, minutely pubescent and with a dense ring of 
long white hairs around the base. Roem. d& Schultes, Syst. Veg. ili. 
385; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 299, incl. var. splendens, Meisn.? 
N. alopecuroides, Lam. ex St. Lag. in Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon, vii. 130. 
Protea Sceptrum gustavianum, Sparrm. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 
1777, 53, t. i.; Linn. f. Suppl. 116. P. Sceptrum, Thunb. Diss, 
Prot. 21; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 511; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 125 ; 
Poir. Encycl. v. 662. P. alopecuroides, Lam. IIlustr. i. 240. 
Paranomus sceptriformis, Knight, Prot. 69. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Sparrman, Thom, 617 ! Roxburgh! Masson ! 
Coast Recron : Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8224 ! 8268! Bolus, 
5332! Niven! Hottentots Holland and Zwart Berg, Bowie! Caledon Div. ; 
mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7713! Zwart Berg, 
Zeyher, 37131! Pappe! Zandfontein, Galpin, 4482! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 
Schlechter, 7665 ! 
6. N. diversifolia (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; branches glabrous ; 
leaves dimorphic ; the lower bipinnately divided in the upper third, 
14-3 in. long, the ultimate segments 14-4 lin. long, terete, obtuse ; 
upper 5-104 lin. long, entire, spathulate-oblanceolate or oblong, 
subacuminate, glabrous ; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes sessile, 
2 in. long, cylindric, about 1 in. in diam., surrounded by the upper 
leaves which gradually become bract-like with a green acumen and 
purplish thinner margins ;_ bract subtending each partial head 
nearly 5 lin. long, lanceolate, long-acuminate, densely rusty-villous 
outside; floral bracts 5-7 lin. long, lanceolate-elliptic, long- 
acuminate, densely villous with long hairs ; perianth-tube 1} lin. 
long, glabrous ; segments 74 lin. long ; claws very slender, rusty- 
villous ; limb 1} lin. long, linear, subacute, densely villous ; anthers 
linear ; hypogynous seales 1 lin. long, linear, acuminate ; ovary 
ellipsoid ; style 74 lin. long, filiform, glabrous : stigma 1 lin. long, 
cylindric, obtuse. Sorocephalus diversifolius, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 143; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 391; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 306. Protea diversifolia, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 577. 
Soranthe diversifolia, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 582. 
: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
+ ning ue : ralween Div. ieee Zand (near Tulbagh), Niven ! 
7. N. Dregei (Buek in Drége, Zwei Pfi. Documente, 64, 204) ; 
branches puberulous, at length becoming glabrous or nearly so ; 
