Nivenia. | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 715 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Dréye! | Brand Vley, 
Roxburgh ! : 
9. N. crithmifolia (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 136) ; branches 
tomentellous except when quite young and then more or less tomen- 
tose ; leaves all alike, 2-2} lin. long, bi- or tripinnately divided in the 
upper two-thirds, glabrous except when quite young, coriaceous, ulti- 
mate segments terete, rarely flat, with an obtuse callous apex ; heads 4- 
flowered, spicate ; spikes terminal, solitary or several together, up 
to 34 in. long, cylindric, shortly or rarely rather long-pedunculate ; 
peduncle and flowering axis stout, densely rusty-tomentose ; bract sub- 
tending each partial head about } in. long, nearly 2 lin. broad, longand 
caudate-acuminate from an ovate base, coriaceous, glabrous within, 
very densely villous with interlacing hairs outside ; floral bracts 
ovate-oblong, obtuse or subobtuse, up to 4 lin. long and 1} lin. broad 
in the flowering stage, becoming harder, longer and shortly pointed 
in the fruiting stage ; perianth-tube densely long-villous, glabrous 
at the base ; segments 5 lin. long ; claws shortly tomentellous ; limb 
1 lin. long, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, villously bearded besides the 
shorter tomentellous indumentum; anthers 3 lin. long, oblong ; 
hypogynous scales | lin. long, linear, acute ; ovary surrounded by a 
ring of dense long hairs at the base; style 5 lin. long, villous or 
pubescent from near the base to within 1 lin. of the stigma ; stigma 
3 lin. long, ellipsoid, obtuse ; fruits about 34 lin. long, 2 lin. 
thick, ellipsoid, acutely beaked, smooth and shining, ivory-white, 
surrounded by a ring of long hairs at the base. Roem. Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 387 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 301. Protea Lagopus, 
Andr, Bot. Rep. t. 243. N. Bolusii, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, xlviii. p. xevi. Paranomus crithmifolius, Knight, Prot. 69, 
excl. syn. Thunb., Linn. and Berg. ; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 580. 
Sour AFrRIca: without locality, Lindley! Thunbery (named Protea Lagopus B 
in his herbarium) ! 
Coast RxGton : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Mund, 50! 
Niven! Bolus, 4197! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drege! mountains of Bayiaans 
Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7814! near Bot River, Bolus, 1852! Oudt- 
shoorn Div. ; Oliphants River, Gill! 
10. N. Lagopus (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 137); branches. 
pilose ; leaves all alike, 14-2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the 
upper half, pubescent or puberulous when young, soon becoming 
glabrous, ultimate segments slender, terete, obtuse, up to } in. long ; 
heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes terminal and solitary or sometimes 
clustered and pedunculate, up to 24 in. long, about 3 in, in diam., 
very densely flowered ; flowering axis tomentose ; bract subtending 
each partial head about 4 lin. long, subulate-linear, very acute, 
densely villous outside ; floral bracts about 21 lin. long and 1} lin. 
broad, ovate, long and gradually acutely acuminate, almost. mem- 
branous, very densely long-villous outside ; flowers at the time of 
opening 4 lin. long or less ; perianth-tube shortly pubescent, or 
nearly glabrous; segments 34 lin. long; claws tomentellous or 
