714 PROTEACEAE (Phillips & Hutchinson). [Vivenia. 
leaves all of one kind and divided, or if a few of the upper entire 
then they are linear, up to 3 in. long, pinnately divided in the 
upper half or in some specimens only 2—3-lobed, erect, coriaceous, 
glabrous except when young and then tomentose, the segments in 
the more divided leaves linear, obtuse, those of the less divided a 
little broader, all concave on the upper surface ; heads 4-flowered, 
spicate ; spikes sessile or subsessile, terminal, solitary or geminate, 
about 1} in. long, nearly 1 in. in diam., subeylindrie ; flowering axis 
tomentose, bearing ovate acuminate rigidly coriaceous shortly 
pubescent bracts about 3 lin. long and 2 lin. broad ; floral bracts 4, 
imbri¢ate, the outer 2 larger than the inner, up to 5 lin. long and 
23 lin. broad, oblong, rounded at the apex, rigidly coriaceous, shortly 
woolly-tomentose outside, glabrous within ; flowers surrounded at the 
base by numerous long hairs ; perianth-tube 14 lin. long, nearly 
glabrous ; segments about 7 lin. long ; claws slightly recurved in 
the open flower, shortly tomentose ; limb 1} lin. long, narrowly 
oblong-lanceolate, subacute, shortly and densely villous; hypogynous 
seales 1-1} lin. long, linear-filiform ; ovary surrounded by a ring of 
long white hairs, puberulous; style 7 lin. long, rather slender, 
glabrous, gradually passing into the stigma which is 1} lin. long, 
cylindric, grooved ; fruits 2? lin. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, tipped by a 
persistent portion of the style, brightly shining, surrounded by a 
ring of white hairs. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 300. Sorocephalus 
diversifolius, Drége ex Meisn. l.c. 301, name only, not of BR. Br. 
Paranomus Dregei, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 580. Soranthe 
Dregei, O. Kuntze, l.c. 582. 
Centra, Recon: Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwartberg Range, Drége! 
Zwartberg Pass, Bolus, 11629! 
8. N. capitata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 138) ; branches 
tomentellous ; leaves all alike, }~1 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately 
divided in the upper 3, very shortly pubescent when young, glabrous 
when mature, the ultimate segments 2—6 lin. long, subterete except 
for a narrow groove on the upper side, almost filiform, subobtuse ; 
heads 4-flowered, crowded in a terminal solitary sessile subglobose 
cluster about } in. in diam. ; bract subtending each partial head 
2} lin. long, elliptic, obtusely acuminate, at iength recurved, slightly 
pilose ; floral bracts 2 lin. long, ovate, subacutely acuminate, rigidly 
coriaceous, pubescent; perianth-tube } lin. long, sparingly pilose ; 
segments 23 lin. long; claws villous; limb 3 lin. long, lanceolate, 
subobtuse, villous; anthers } lin. long, linear ; hypogynous scales 
2 lin. long, linear, acute ; ovary subcylindric, surrounded by a ring 
of long hairs at the base, otherwise pubescent ; style 3 lin. long, 
pilose on the middle third of its length; stigma % lin. long, 
subclavate, rather obtuse. Roem. d& Schultes, Syst. Veg. wil. 388 ; 
E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pf. Docwmente, 79, 204 ; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 302. Protea capitata, Poir. Encyel. Suppl. iv. 575. 
Paranomus capitatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 580. 
