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glabra. Capitula turbinata, sessilia, solitaria v. pauca ag- gregata, piso vix duplo majora, multiflora. Bractece invo- lucri pubescentes, ciliatae ; exteriores ovato-lanceolatse, acu- mine brevi ; interiores oblongo-ellipticae, obtusiusculae. Calyx tetraphyllus, plumoso-villosus. Pistillum calyce Ion- gius. Stigma crassitie styli. Squamulce hypogynae subulatae, persistentes. Nux elliptica, vix compressa, tenuissime pubescens, basi styli terminata : cortex membranaceus, tenuis, albus, separabilis apice rugoso, putamen crustaceum, nigro-fuscum. Nucleus integumento simplici, tenuissimo. Chalaza apicis lata, venis radiantibus. Receptaculum pla- num, villosum, epaleatum.

10. M. divaricata, caule procumbente, foliis ovalibus [in obtusis pubescentibus, stylo glabro.

a. bracteis oblongo-linearibus obtusis semifoliaceis, lami- nis calycis sericeis.

Scolymocephalos africanus argenteus, foliis brevioribus, myrtiformibus, capitulis rarioribus. Herm. Afr. 20.

Leucadendron divaricatum. Berg. Act. Stockh. 1766, p. 324.* Berg. Cap. p. 19*

Protea divaricata. Linn. Mant. 194.* Thunb. Diss. n. 57.* Prod. 27. Lam. Illust. Gen. 1, p. 235, n. 1221. Poiret, Encyc. Botan. h,p. 643. Willd. Sp. PL I, p. 533.

£$. bracteis lanceolatis acutiusculis subscariosis.

Hab. In Africse Australis campis et collibus, ubique prope Promont. B. Spei. (v. v. ad latera montium, juxta Simon's Bay.)

Obs. Calyx tetraphyllus. Receptaculum epaleatum.

11. M. purpurea, caule procumbenti, ramis adscendenti- bus, foliis lineari-subulatis canaliculatis, laminis calycis glabris.

Protea foliis linearibus simplicissimis ramis determinatis floribus terminatricibus. Boy. Ludg. Bat. 186.

Leucadendron proteoides. Linn. Sp. PL ed. i, p. 91.* (fid. spec, tunc in Herb.) ed. ii, p. 134.* Berg. Act. Stockh. 1766, p. 326.* Berg. Cap. 24.*

Protea purpurea. Linn. Mant. 195.* Thunb. Diss.

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