718 PROTEACEE (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Nivenia. 
its length; stigma } lin. long, subeylindric, subacute ; fruit 2 lin. 
jong, obliquely ovoid, long-beaked and tipped by the persistent 
style. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 388; Meisn, in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 302. N. spicata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 136 as to syn. 
Thunb. N. candicans, R. Br. in l.c. 221, in obs. ; Roem. & Schultes, l.c. 
389; Meisn. le. Protea spicata, Thunb. Diss. Prot. 20; Murr. Syst. 
Veg. ed. xiv. 37; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 124. P. candicans, 
Thunb. Prodr. Append. 186; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 123. P. mollis- 
sima, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 575. Paranomus argenteus, Knight, 
Prot. 68% P. candicans and P. mollissimus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 
ii. B80. Serruria? albicans, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 378. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Sparrman ! Thunberg | Masson ! Roxburgh ! 
Coast REGIon : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Thunberg ! 
Uniondale Div. ; Lange Kloof, Masson. 
Imperfectly known species. 
14. N.? concava (R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 221, in obs.) ; 
branches very villous ; leaves subsessile, imbricate, ovate, concave, 
somewhat wrinkled, glabrous, with a subcallous apex; heads 
crowded, globose; bracts short, ovate, acute, like the perianth 
pubescent. Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 388 ; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 302. Protea concava, Lam. Ilustr, i. 234 ; Poir. Encyel. 
v. 642. Paranomus concavus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 580. 
Said to be from the Cape. 
15. Paranomus longicaulis (Knight, Prot. 70); stem 5-6 ft. high ; 
branches long ; lower leaves bipinnatifid, upper spathulate ; spike 
short, very close ; bracts very hairy. 
Coast Recton : Riversdale Div. ; Gouritz River, Niven. 
Known to us only from Knight's description ; it may be identical with one of 
the species with dimorphic leaves which oecurs in the same region. 
