TABULA 3043. 
SERRURIA FLORIDA, Knight. 
PROTEACEAE. Tribus PROTEEAE. 
S. florida, Knight Prot. p. 92; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. x. 
p. 126; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vol. iti. p. 372 ; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 285 ; Phillips et Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vol. v. 
sect. 1, p. 678; species pedunculis monocephalis, capitulis magnis 
bracteis speciosis albis circumdatis valde distincta. 
4-5-6:5 cm. longa, basi lata; segmenta acicularia, subteretia, acutis- 
sima, 0-5-0-75 mm. crassa, glabra. Capitula axillaria et terminalia, 
ad ramorum apices 3-6, pedunculata, 3-4 cm. longa, circiter 4 cm. 
acute acuminatae, 2°5—4 cm. longae, 0-8-1-5 cm. latae, membranaceae, 
? 
albae, sicco roseo-flavae, glabrae. Bracteae florales lineares vel lineari- 
linearis, 3 mm. longus, pilis longissimis tenuiter villosus, segmento 
postico glabro vel fere glabro. Antherae 3 mm. longae. Ovarvum 
basi tumidus, globoso-expansus, glaber; stigma oblongum, 2 mm. 
ongum. Fructus oblongo-ellipsoideus, breviter rostratus, ferrugineo- 
pilosus.—Protea florida, Thunb. Diss. Prot. p. 15, t. 1, fig. 1; Murr. 
Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. p. 136; m. Ill. vol. i. p. 240; Willd. Sp. Pl. 
vol. i. p. 506 ; Poir. Encycl. vol. v. p. 662; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 
a. i221, 
Soutn Arrica : Cape Colony ; Paarl Division, French Hoek, Thun- 
Mac Owan, 1524; Kriel in Herb. Bolus, 6335 ; without 
berg ; Masson ; 
precise locality, Wedgwood. 
The genus Serruria embraces about 50 species, all of which are 
