SERRURIA. 



the germen. Stigma vertical, fmooth. Nut fuperior, 

 fomewhat ftalked. Common receptacle convex, many- 

 flowered, with chafFy deciduous fcales. 



A genus of rigid Cape (hrubs, of which Mr. Brown de- 

 fcribes thirty-nine fpecies, eight of which find a place in the 

 Hortus Kewenfis. The leaves are thread-lhaped, pinnatifid 

 or three-cleft, rarely undivided. Heads oi Jlowers either 

 terminal, or, from the bofoms of the uppcrmoft leaves, 

 either fimple and folitary, or compoied of feveral feffile 

 partial heads, or corymbofe. BraBeas imbricated, mem- 

 branous, mod commonly fliorter than the Jloivers, in a few 

 inltances longer, in feme wanting. Flowers always feffile, 

 purple. PiflU the length of the corolla, with a club-fhaped, 

 rarely cylindrical, ftigma. Nut oval, finely downy, fome- 

 times bearded, fometimes nearly fmooth. We feledt the 

 following examples, among which are included all the fpecies 

 known in the gardens of England. 



Seft. I. Heads Jtmple ; the Jlower-Jlalks undi'o'iJed or 

 wanting. 



S. pinnata. Wing-leaved Serruria. Brown, n. 8. Ait. 

 !i. I. (Protea pinnata ; Andr. Repof. t. 512.) — Heads 

 ilalked, fomewhat aggregate. Brafteas lanceolate, villous, 

 r.early as long as the flowers. Corolla bearded. Leaves 

 pinnatifid or three-cleft, longer than the heads. Stem pro- 

 cumbent, hairy. — Gathered by Mr. Niven, on drj- hills at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, particularly in afcending Paarl- 

 berg. It flowered in Mr. Hibbert's garden, in the fummer 

 of 1807. I" ^ natural ilate ihe Jlem is faid to be perfeftly 

 proftrate, dividing from the bafe into branches about a foot 

 long, round, downy, leafy. Leaves above an inch long, 

 turned upwards, confifting of three or five awl-fliaped feg- 

 ments. Heads of Jlcnvers red, about as big as a walnut, 

 cither folitary and terminal, or partly axillary ; the young 

 buds enveloped in the white filky hairs, which clothe the 

 tips of the corolla externally. 



S. cyanoides. Trifid-leaved Serruria. Brown, n. 10. 

 Ait. n. 2. ( Protea cyanoides ; Linn. Mant. 188. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. I. 507. Cyanus aethiopicus, rigidis capillaceis 

 tenuifTimi,' foliis trifidis ; Pluk. Mant. 61. Phyt. t 345. 

 f. 6. ) — Heads terminal, longer than their ilalks. BraAeas 

 rounJi/h, pointed, villous. One fegment of the corolla 

 nearly fmooth. Leaves fpreading ; the lower ones three- 

 cleft ; upper fubdivided. Stem nearly upright Native of 



hills about the Cape. Mr. Brown gathered it on the fides 

 of mountains, near Simon's bay. A fhrub of humble 

 growth, flowering with us in June or July. The branches 

 are fcarcely pubefcent. Leaves not an inch long, rather 

 hairy while young. Flower-Jlalks folitary, downy, gene- 

 rally but half the length of the heads of flowers, which are 

 the fi/.e of a large cherry, rifing above the upper leaves, and 

 accompanied by membranous iilky bradeas. 



S. pedunculata. Woolly-headed Serruria. Brown, n. 13. 

 Ait. n. 3. ( Protea glomerata ; Andr. Repof. t. 264.) — 

 Heads terminal, ft;alked. Brafteas ovate, downy. Corolla 

 curved, feathery ; its inner fegment filky. Leaves twice 

 or thrice pinnatifid, hairy, as well as the upright fl:em. — 

 Found in various hilly fituations at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where the fnil is rather fertile. Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy 

 are recorded as having firft raifed this fpecies, in 1789, from 

 feeds obtained from Vienna. It flowers in fummer, and 

 makes a handfome appearance, with its copious many-cleft 

 /eaves, and large heads of light reddifli -brown fioiuers-, 

 clothed with fine white plumy down. The anthers are 

 yellow. Stigma blackifh. 



S. hirfuta. Hairy Serruria. Brown n. 15. (Protea 

 phylicoides ; Thunb. Did. n. 9. Prodr. 25. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. I. 510, excluding the reference to Bergius.) — 



Heads terminal, longer than their ftalks. Brafteas linear, 

 lanceolate, hairy. Corolla feathery. Leaves doubly pin- 

 nate, about as long as the head;. Branches hairy. Stem 

 ereft. — Native of fl;ony hills at the Cape. Mr. Brown ob- 

 ferved it near Simon's bay. It feems unknown in our gar. 

 dens. This^ri/i is two or three feet higli, with ftraight 

 umbellate branches, rough with fpreading permanent hairs. 

 Leaves copious, moderately fpreading, an inch, or fome- 

 times an inch and half, long, hairy when young only ; their 

 fegments very (harp-pointed. Floiuer-Jlalks often more than 

 one at the top of each branch, half tlie length of the headsy 

 with lanceolate-awl-fliaped, fpr^-ading bradeas. Heads as 

 big as a walnut, rifing above the upper leaves. Corolhi 

 fiightly curved ; the hairs on its inner fegment fliorter than 

 thofe of the other three. Stigma cylindrical, fomewhat 

 club-fliaped. 



S. Niveni. Niven's Serruria. Brown, n. 17. Ait. n. 4. 

 (Protea decumbens ; Andr. Repof. t. 349.) — Heads ter. 

 minal, feffile. Biafteas lanceolate ; the inner ones filky. 

 Corolla bearded. Leaves doubly pinnatifid ; the uppermoft 

 longer than the head, and fmooth like the branches. Stem 

 decumbent. — Difcovered by Mr. James Niven, on Swart- 

 berg, a rocky mountain at the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 fent by him to Mr. G. Hibbert in 1800. It blooms in the 

 fummer, and is of a Imall ilature, and decumbent habit. 

 The Jlowers are of a dull red, clothed externally with white 

 filky hair.-; ; and each fohtary head, fmaller than a hazel-nut, 

 is encompafled with numerous, crowded, radiating leaves. 

 Each leaf of the general foliage is about an inch long. 

 Stigma hardly thicker than the llyle. Mr. Andrews's plate 

 reprefents the branches as fomewhat downy. 



S. phylicoides. Phylica-flowered Serruria. Brown, n. 24, 

 Ait. n. 5. (Leucadendron phylicoides; Berg. Cap. 29. 

 Protea fphcerocephala ; Linn. Mant. 18S. P. abrotani- 

 folia ; Andr. Repof. t. 507.) — Heads terminal or axillary, 

 on fcaly flialks. Bracteas half as long again as the head, 

 lanceolate, fmooth ; the outer ones narrowell. Tips of the 

 corolla bearded. Leaves twice compound, longer than the 

 floiver-ftalks. — -Native of the Cape, from whence it was fent 

 to Kew, by Mr. Maflbn, in 1788 ; flowering there in July 

 and Auguft. This is a fmooth upright Jhrub, with reddifli 

 leafy branches. Leaves generally bipinnatifid, an inch or 

 two long, moderately fpreading. Thejlower-Jlalks, clothed 

 with feveral lanceolate fcales, and either folitary, or aggre- 

 gate in a corymbofe manner, are longer than the heads, but 

 ufually fliorter than the foliage. Heads above half an inch 

 in diameter, fubtended by many longifli, deflexed, green, 

 red-pointed bradeas. Corolla whitifii and fmooth, except 

 the ends of the fegments, which are red, and deiifely bearded. 

 Stigma red, cylindrical. 



S. Jlorida. Large-flowered Serruria. Brown, n. 26. 

 (Protea florida ; Thunb. Dilf. n. 2. t. I. Prodr. 25. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 506.) — Brafteas longer than the 

 ftalked heads ; the outer ones elliptic-oblong, pointed, 

 fmooth ; inner concealed, linear-lanceolate, fringed. Leaves 

 once or twice pinnatifid — Thunberg and Matlon gathered 

 this fpecies on the mountains of Franche Hoek at the Cape- 

 It has not as yet found its way into our green-houfcs, which 

 is much to be regretted, no other Serruria being comparable 

 to it in beauty. The leaves are three or four inches long, 

 fmooth, as well as the branches, which are of a purple hue. 

 Flowers many together, on corj-mbofe fcaly ftalks at the 

 ends of the branches, large, remarkable for their beautiful 

 red external braSeas, which are each an inch or inch and 

 half long, attended by fmaller ones, of the fame kind, feat- 

 tered down the llalk, while the innermoft braSeas, coming 

 into view by the fpreading of the former, are luic^.r, fringed 



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