716 PROTEACE® (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Vivenia. 
shortly pubescent, becoming spirally coiled in the open flower ; limb 
1 lin. long, lanceolate, subobtuse, villous outside; anthers sessile ; 
hypogynous scales linear; ovary surrounded by a ring of hairs ; 
style 33-4 lin. long, thinly pubescent in the lower half; stigma 
ellipsoid, subobtuse, gradually passing into. the style, about 4 lin, 
long. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 387; E. Meyer in Drege, 
Zwei Pfl. Documente, 78, 119, 204 ; Meisn. in DO. Prodr, xiv. 302, 
incl. var. sericea, Meisn. l.c.? N. micrantha, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxvii. 107. Protea Lagopus, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 19 (excl. 
specimen B of his herbarium) ; Willd. Sp.i.510. Paranomus abrotant- 
folius and P. cumuliflorus, Knight, Prot. 68. 
SoutH Arrica ; without locality, Thunberg, sheet «! Roxburgh ! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Bolus, 1351! New 
Kloof, Drége, a! Worcester Div. ; near Brede River Station, Drége, b! Bredas- 
dorp Div. ; Elim, Schlechter, 9640! Swellendam Div. ; on mountains, Viven ! 
11. N. spicata (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 136, excl. syn. — 
Thunb.) ; branches tomentellous or puberulous ; leaves all alike, 
about 2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, puberulous 
when young, soon becoming quite glabrous, ultimate segments up to 
} in. long, terete except for a narrow groove on the upper surface, 
obtuse ; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes terminal, solitary or sub- 
solitary, up to 34 in. long, lax, pedunculate ; peduncle mostly about 
1 in. long, densely yellow-tomentose, bearing a few subulate very 
acute shortly pubescent bracts 4—5 lin. long; bract subtending 
each partial head about 2 lin. long, subulate-lanceolate, acute, 
shortly tomentose outside ; floral bracts about 2 lin. long and broad, 
broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate, coriaceous, shortly and softly — 
tomentose or tomentellous outside, glabrous within ; perianth-tube 
about 1} lin. long, glabrous at the base, shortly pubescent above ; 
segments about } in. long: claws shortly and softly tomentose, 
recurved or coiled in the open flower ; limb 1 lin. long, lanceolate- 
elliptic, subobtuse, villous outside ; anthers 3 lin. long, linear-oblong ; 
hypogynous scales } lin. long, linear ; ovary surrounded by a ring of 
long hairs; style 7 lin. long, sparingly pilose in the lower half ; 
stigma gradually passing into the style, about ? lin. long, clavate, 
subobtuse. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 386; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr, xiv. 301. N. media, R. Br. 1.c. 137 ; E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei 
Pfl. Documente, 72, 73, 204 ; forma Zeyheri, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France, xlviii. p. xevi. N. intermedia, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 
ii. 196, name- only. N. laxa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 
282? Leucadendron spicatum, Berg. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 
1766, 327; Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 25. Protea spicata, Linn. Mant. 
alt. 187; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 511, excl. syn. Thunb. ; Andr. Bot. Rep. 
t. 234. Paranomus bracteolaris, Knight, Prot. 68. P. medius and 
P. spicatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 580. 
Coast Reeion : Clanwilliam Div. ; Blau Berg, Honig Valley and Koude Berg, 
Drége, «1! Pakhuis Pass, Bolus, 9082! and without precise locality, Mader, 953 
Piquetberg Div. ; Pikeniers Kloof, MacOwan, 1947 ! Schlechter, 10770! Tulbagh 
Div.; New Kloof, Dréye! Worcester Div. ; Matroosberg, Jarloth, 2248. 
