Nivenia.| PROTEACE& (Phillips & Hutchinson). TEE 
Caledon Div. ; Babylons Tower Mountains, Zeyher, 3716! Zwart Berg, MacOwan, 
770! Galpin, 4484! near Caledon, Bolus, 9917! 9927! Bredasdorp Diy. ; near 
Elim, Bolus, 7863! Swellendam Div. ; on mountains, Niven! Riversdale Div. ; 
near Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4483 ! 
CenTRaL Recron : Ceres Div. ; Witzen Berg and Scurfde Berg, Zeyher, 1479! 
12. N. tomentosa (Phillips & Hutchinson) ; branches _ terete, 
densely and softly tomentose or subvillous with whitish hairs ; 
leaves all alike, erect, 1}-1} in. long, bipinnately divided in the 
upper two-thirds, more or less flabellate in outline, permanently silky- 
tomentose with silvery-white hairs, ultimate segments 1—3 lin. long, 
terete, obtuse ; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes terminal, solitary, 
subsessile, about 14 in. long, subcylindric ; flowering axis densely 
tomentose ; bract subtending each flower-head 4 lin. long, about 
3 lin. broad, broadly ovate and somewhat cupular, shortly acuminate, 
coriaceous, adpressed-pilose outside, glabrous and shining within ; 
floral bracts 4, about 4 lin. long, 2-2} lin. broad, ovate-oblong, 
rounded at the apex, thinly coriaceous, densely adpressed-pilose 
outside, glabrous within; flowers surrounded by numerous long 
white hairs; perianth-tube 2 lin. long, densely adpressed-pilose ; 
segments about } in. long; claws straight, densely villous; limb 
1} lin. long, lanceolate, subobtuse, densely villous with long hairs 
outside ; authers scarcely 1 lin. long, narrowly elliptic ; hypogynous 
scales 1 lin. long, linear, subacute; ovary subovoid, pubescent ; 
style } in. long, pubescent nearly to the apex, gradually passing 
into the stigma which is 2 lin, long, subcylindrie, subacute, glabrous ; 
fruit about 4 lin. long, obliquely oblong, beaked, obtusely 4-angled, 
minutely puberulous, with a dense ring of long hairs at the base. 
Nivenia mollissima, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 74, 204, 
not of R. Br. 
Coast Recon : Clanwilliam Div, ; Ezelshank, Drége! Koude Berg, Schlechter,. 
8770! 
13. N. mollissima (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 138) ; branches 
tomentellous with short crisped hairs ; leaves all alike, bipinnately 
divided in the upper two-thirds, tomentose, rarely becoming nearly 
glabrous in the fruiting stage; ultimate segments about | in, long, sub- 
obtuse or subacute, apiculate; heads 4-flowered, spicate ; spikes 
terminal, solitary or clustered, 2-3} in. long, about } in. in diam. ; 
peduncle }-1} in. long, densely tomentose, bearing a few scattered 
bracts ; bract subtending each partial head 14-24 lin. long, linear, 
linear-lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, acute or subacute, villous ; 
~ floral bracts 14-34 lin. long, ovate, shortly acuminate, subacute or sub- 
obtuse, tomentose ; perianth-tube 1—1} lin, long, pubescent or villous ; 
segments 4—4} lin. long, spathulate-linear ; claws tomentose ; limb 
-§ lin. long, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, subobtuse, villously 
bearded ; anthers }—3 lin. long, linear ; hypogynous scales linear ; 
Ovary minutely pubescent, surrounded by a ring of long hairs at the 
base ; style 4} lin. long, pilose or villous on the middle third of 
