i 4 + PROTEACEAE 



x x Leaves small, entire, flat. Heads small, with inconspicuous 

 bracts. (Plate 32.) 



Endemic. Ca. 5 species. 7. Diastella Knight 



Flor. Cap. 650. 



xxx Leaves large, expanded. Heads large, with large showy 

 bracts. (Plate 32.) 



1 endemic species, Caledon mountains. 



8. Orothamnus Pappe 

 Flor. Cap. 650. 



2. Heads axillary and few-flowered, each head surrounded by 



a large foliage bract. Nut sessile. Leaves flat. 



Endemic. Ca. 9 species, middle-sized trees or shrubs. 

 (Plate 32.) 9. Mimetes Salisb. 



Flor. Cap. 643. 



3. Heads 1 — 6-flowered, involucred, congested into a terminal 



spike or rarely forming a terminal glomerule. Nut shortly 

 pedicillate. 



x Leaves either all pinnately divided or dimorphic, the lower 

 ones being multifid and the upper ones flat. Heads 

 4-flowered. Nut sessile. (Plate }}.) 

 Endemic. Ca. 13 species. 



10. Paranomus Salisb. & Knig/u 

 Flor. Cap. 708. Under Nivenia R. Br. 



x x Leaves either all linear or some of the lower decompound. 



o Inflorescence globose. Stigma oblong. 

 Endemic. Ca. 1 3 species. 



1 1. Sorocephalus R. Br. 

 Flor. Cap. 701. 



00 Inflorescence cylindric. Stigma obliquely capitate. 

 Endemic. Ca. 5 species. 



12. Spatall6psis Phillips 

 Flor. Cap. 698. 



II. The upper perianth-segment larger. Stigma obliquely discoid. 

 Endemic. Ca. 21 species. (Plate 33.) 



13. Spatalla Salisb. 

 Flor. Cap. 686. 



Tribe II. Persoonieae. 



Perianth-segments free ; stamens with filaments, the filaments free or 

 shortly adhering to the claws of the perianth-lobes. (Fig- 79 \ Plate 34.) 



1 endemic species. Ca. 14. Brabeium L. 



Flor. Cap. 504. 



