CYII. PROTEACEiS. 331 



gynous scales. Style filiform, deciduous ; stigma subulate, 

 slender. Nut sessile, ventricose, smooth. — DC. Frocl. xiv. p. 

 2G2. 



Shrvxbs, with the liabit of Leucospermum^ but inostlj 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 tei'minal. — 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- 

 lar, 4-fid, the claws distinct, apices concave, antherilerous. 

 Hy})ogynous 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. — DC. Frod. xiv. ^. 283. 



Small shrubs, with terete-filiform, 3-fido-pinnatiparted, rarely undivided 

 leaves, and purple flowers in solitary, corymbose or glomerated heads. — 52 

 species, dispersed. 



7. NIVENIA, E. 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, E. Br. 



Plowers 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- 

 cave, antheriferous. Hypogynous scales 4. Style filiform, 

 deciduous ; stigma vertical, clavate. Nut on a short stipe or 

 emarginate at base, ventricose. — DC. Prod. xiv. ^. 303. 



Erect, virgate shrubs, with narrow-linear, flat or filiform, entire loaves, 

 or the lower leaves sometimes 2-pinnatifid. Flowers purplish. — 11 species, 

 dispersed. 



