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Lateral nerves ascending. 
Heads turbinate . : : . . 13. P. abyssinica. 
Heads globose : 3 . 14, P. busseana. 
Leaves hairy, at least when young. 
Leaves conspicuously broader above the 
middle. 
Innermost bracts shorter than the 
perianth. 
Leaves amplexicaul . : A . 15. P. getzeana. 
Leaves not amplexicaul. 
. Leaves usually acute. : . 16. P. chrysolepis. 
Leaves obtuse, . : 17. P. Welwitschir. 
Leaves subacute . : : . 18. P. congensis. 
Innermost bracts at least as long as 
the perianth. 
Perianth 24 in. long, shaggy out- 
side: : : : : . 19. P. micans. 
Perianth 1} in. long, silky outside . 20. P. melliodora. 
Leaves not conspicuously broader above 
the middle. 
Leaves white-arachnoid : ; . 21. P. uhehensis. 
Leaves not arachnoid. 
Marginal nerve distinct. 
A shrub 20 in. high . : ne a 
A tree 12-15 ft. high . : 123% 
Marginal nerve absent. : . 24. 
Leaves ovate or oblong, more than 2 in. wide. 
P. rubrobracteata. 
ae 
foe 
Lateral nerves patent. Leaves densely hairy beneath 25. P. trichanthera. 
-. 
P. 
E ¢ 
leucoblepharis. 
myrsinifolia, 
Lateral nerves ascending. 
Perianth glabrous or nearly so above . : 520; 
Perianth hairy above. 
Leaves obovate. : ; : : a Bs 
Leaves ovate or elliptic. 
Perianth-tube glabrous or nearly so... . 28. angolensis. 
Perianth-tube shaggy . : : . . 29. P. Elliottii. 
madiensis. 
chionantha, 
1. P. Baumii, Lng. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 221, 
Jig. 94. A shrub nearly 4 ft. high. Branches glabrous, brown. Leaves 
rather dense, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, long cuneate at the base, 
3-4 in. long, 4 lin. wide, quite glabrous, coriaceous, opaque; nerves very 
slightly raised on both surfaces, marginal inconspicuous. Heads terminal 
on the branches, 4 in. in diam.; bracts many, much imbricate, loosely 
and very shortly silky outside, glabrous or nearly so inside, white edged 
with brownish yellow, lower ovate, acute, 5 lin. long, upper lanceolate 
or obovate-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, 2 in. long, all about 5 lin. 
wide. Perianth rosy and silvery, very densely long white-silky, up to 
nearly 2in. long. Style very slightly elongating after flowering, 2 in. 
long.—Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 129. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in or by swamps on the right bank of the Kubango 
River, opposite the mouth of the Kueio, 3600 ft., Baum, 375 ! 
2. P. hemantha, Lngl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped, 220, 
Jig. 93. A-prostrate shrub. Branches rising here and there to a height 
