200 CXVII, PROTEACEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | Protea. 
Var. brevifolia, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 165. Leaves shorter than in the type, 
slightly narrowed towards the base, softly pilose. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Butumbi, 6200 ft., ex Engler. 
The type also in South Africa. 
14. P. busseana, Hngl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 131. A tall shrub or a 
tree. Branches pale rusty-pilose when young. Leaves erect, approxi- 
mate, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, 6 in. 
long, 14 in. wide; lateral nerves many, ascending at a very acute 
angle, prominent on both surfaces. Heads turbinate below, dilated 
and globose above; bracts coriaceous, shortly white-tomentose, outer 
ovate, 2 lin. long and wide, innermost linear-oblong, obtuse, 1} in. long, 
5 lin. wide. Flowers 1? in. long, much longer than the bracts, rusty- 
pilose below, white-pilose above; upper perianth-limb boat-shaped, 
3-toothed. Anthers 6 lin. long, } lin. wide; connective produced into 
a short cone. Style thickened below, tapering above, much exserted 
from the perianth. 
* wozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Makorro Mountains, near Lake Nyasa, 
Busse, 788. 
Very closely allied to P. abyssinica, Willd. 
15. P. goetzeana, Hngl. Jahrb. xxx. 298, t. 9. A sbrub up 
to 64 ft. high. Branches rather densely adpressed pilose. Leaves 
approximate, narrowly oblong from a rather broad sessile or half 
amplexicaul base, about 4 in. long and 14 lin. wide, adpressed pilose, 
coriaceous. Heads broadly turbinate, 2 in. in diam.; bracts densely 
fulvo-pilose, outer 5—6-seriate, semiovate or ovate, innermost oblong, 
1} in. long, 5 lin. wide. Perianth white, long pilose, 34 in. long; 
tube elongate; limb slightly curved at the apex. Anthers narrowly 
linear, 34 lin. long; connective produced into a triangular appendage. 
Ovary elongate-oblong, clothed with yellowish-brown hairs 4 lin. long ; 
style thickened at the base, tapering upwards ; stigma filiform. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Upper Kondeland; Umalila, on the 
Usanga Mountain, 7500 ft., Goetze, 1367. 
16. P. chrysolepis, Lngl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
222, fig. 95. A shrub or tree up to 13 ft. high; branches very densely 
grey tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves rather dense, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, rarely slightly rounded, taper- 
ing to the base, 24-4} in. long, 9-13 lin. wide, subcoriaceous, sessile 
by a broad base; nerves scarcely conspicuous in young leaves, loosely 
and irregularly reticulate, equally prominent on both surfaces, marginal 
percurrent. Heads terminal on the branches, up to 3 in. in diam. ; 
bracts very numerous, densely imbricate, lower 2 lin. long, ovate, 
acute, uppermost nearly 1 in. long and 5 lin. wide, densely and shortly 
silvery silky outside, glabrous within, ovate, rounded at the apex. 
Perianth silvery, very densely long yellowish silky, 14 in. long. Style 
much elongated after flowering, 2 in. long, thick and coriaceous.—Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxili. 129. 
