Cisscnia.} THE NATURAf. ORDER OF PROTEEiE. « . G. foUis adultis sericeis : niasculorum spatulato-Unccolatis, Scricen, jwtalis ultra antheras barbatis. Silky Giasonia. I have only seen a male plant of this species, which flowered at Clapham, in June 1806, and was then supposed to be Proiea Cinerea of Solandeb, but it is totally different. Stem very slen- der, silky. Leaves y a line broad, 2 to 3 long, erect-spreading, spatulated-lauceolate, silky when old, and very like those of G«i- dia Sericea. Bractea of the Involucrum not so silky aj the Leaves. Petals bearded beyond the anthers. Stigroa broadly club-shaped. . G. foliis adultis IjEvibus: masculorum angustespatulatis; foe- Riparia, roineorum linearibus et anguste spatulatis : petalis ultra antheras barbatis. Beck-side Gissonia. A slender shrub, discovered by Mr. F. Masson on the banks of rivulets, in Hottentots Holland. Leaves quite smooth whca old ; in males ■^ a line brnad, 2 to 3 long, narrowly spatulated; in females differing in shape on the same branch ; lower ones even narrower and a great deal longer than those of the males, quite linear ; upper ones much broader, narrowly spatulated. Male Heads on little hairy branches which resemble peduncles, hav- ing scarcely any other leaves upon them than gemmaceous scales. Petals bearded beyond the anthers. Cones about -j of an inch in diameter. . G. foliis adultis plus minus sericeis ; masculoruin spatulato-lan- CoUintu ceolatis ; fcemineoruni ligularibus : petalis ultra antheras Isevibus. Mas. Protea plumosa. Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kexo. v. I. p. 127. Protca parviflora. Tkunb, Diss. n. 40. /. 4./. I. Protea parviflora. Linn. Mant. p. gs Fcem. Protea obliqua, Linn. Sttppl.p. 117. Protea obliqua. Tkunb. Diss. n. 39. Scolymocephalus Africanws, &c. Rai/. Htfft. V. 3. lib. 25. p. 10_Hillock Gissoaia.
