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gynous scales. Style filiform, deciduous; stigma subulate, 
slender. Nut sessile, ventricose, smooth.—DC. Prod. xiy. p. 
262. 
Shrubs, with the habit of Leucospermum, but mostly axillary heads of 
red or purple (not yellow) flowers. Leaves flat or concave, entire or callous- 
dentate, mostly veiny and pubescent.—Heads in the axils of the upper 
leaves or terminal.—14 species, dispersed. 
6. SERRURIA, Salisb. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate; the head globose, indefinitely 
many-flowered, involucred or nude; involucre multiseriate, 
persistent, the scales membranous, imbricate. Calyx subregu-° 
Jar, 4-fid, the claws distinct, apices concave, antheriferous. 
Hypogynous scales 4. Style filiform, deciduous; stigma 
vertical, glabrous, clavate or cylindrical, mostly furrowed. 
Nut on a short stipe, ovoid or ventricose, hairy or glabrescent. 
sometimes beaked with the style-base—D0C. Prod. xiv. p. 283. 
Small shrubs, with terete-filiform, 3-fido-pinnatiparted, rarely undivided 
leayes, and purple flowers in solitary, corymbose or glomerated heads.—52 
species, dispersed. 
7. NIVENIA, R. Br. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate ; the heads 4-flowered, involucred, 
disposed in dense, terminal spikes or rarely in a glomerule, 
each head subtended by a bract ; involucre 4-leaved, persistent, 
hardened in fruit; receptacle nude. Calyx regular, 4-fid, en- 
tirely deciduous; the apices concave, antheriferous. Hypo- 
gynous scales 4. Style filiform, deciduous, angle-furrowed 
above ; stigma vertical, clavate, obtuse, rarely conic-capitate. 
Nut sessile, ventricose, shining, entire at base.—DC. Prod. 
xiv. p. 299. 
Erect, virgate shrubs, with dimorphous leaves, the upper more or less 
entire, dilated and flat, the lower pinnatiparted or 2-3-ternate. Flowers 
purple.—13 species, dispersed. 
8. SOROCEPHALUS, R. Br. 
Flowers bisexual, capitate, heads 6-1-flowered, involucred, 
crowded in a dense terminal head-like spike ; involucre 3-6- 
leaved, subtended by a bract, not changed in fruit ; receptacle 
nude. Calyx regular, 4-fid, quite deciduous; the apices con- 
eave, antheriferous. Hypogynous scales 4. Style filiform, 
deciduous ; stigma vertical, clavate. Nut ona short stipe or 
emarginate at base, ventricose.—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 303. 
Erect, virgate shrubs, with narrow-linear, flat or filiform, entire leaves, 
or the lower leaves sometimes 2-pinnatifid. Flowers purplish.—11 species, 
dispersed. 
