Protea. | CXVII. PROTEACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 201 
Lower Guinea. Angola: by the River Kubango above Chirumbu, 3900 ft., 
Baum, 272! 
Native name “ zuikerbosch.”’ 
17. P. Welwitschii, LHngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 196. A 
tree 12-25 ft. high. Trunk nearly 1 ft. in diam. at the base; branches 
spreading, naked below, leafy towards the apex, pilose when young. 
Leaves dense, linear-oblong, tapering downwards, obtuse, 5 in. long, 1 in. 
wide, pilose, slightly glabrescent. Heads solitary, terminal, 2-3 in. 
in diam. ; bracts with rusty silky hairs outside, becoming glabrous at 
the margins ; outer ovate, 1 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; inner oblong, 1-14 
in. long, 6 lin. wide. Perianth 1? in. long, pilose with white hairs 
throughout, rusty when dried. Anthers linear, 4 lin. long, apiculate. 
Style about 2 in. long, glabrous, slightly furrowed ; stigma slender, 
clavate at the apex.— Leucadendron Welwitschii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 918. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in the more open mixed forests at No 
Monino, near Lopollo, and at Quilengues, Welwitsch, 1600! 1602! between Lopollo 
and Monino, Welwitsch, 1604! Benguella; Bailundo District, 5000 ft., Wellman! 
18. P. congensis, Lngl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 129. Branchlets and leaves 
densely ashy-pilose. Leaves close together, erect, sessile, coriaceous, 
linear-oblong, tapering towards both ends, subacute, 2? in. long, 9 lin. 
wide. Heads subglobose, about 3 in. in diam. ; bracts densely brownish 
silky, outer ovate, in about 4 series, 4-12 lin. long, innermost in 2 
series, linear-oblong, 14 in. long, 4 lin. wide. Perianth rather longer 
than the bracts, densely clothed with rusty hairs; tube compressed, 
oblong; upper lobe of limb boat-shaped, 3-toothed, lower lobe narrow. 
Filament narrowly cuneate; anther narrowly linear, 23 lin. long, } lin. 
wide; connective produced into a small cone. Ovary oblong, densely 
clothed with long rusty hairs; style longer than the perianth, thickened 
below, tapering upwards. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Upper Congo, Marungu, Descamps. 
19. P. micans, Welw. Apont. 586. A cespitose undershrub 1-2 ft. 
high; rootstock hard and woody. Stems simple, rarely forked at the 
apex, villous when young. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, up to 4 in. 
long and 1 in. wide, rounded at the apex, tapering towards the base, 
coriaceous, villous, ‘‘ silky-hoary in the living state with long adpressed 
whitish remarkably glistening hairs” (Welwitsch) ; lateral nerves ascend- 
ing at an acute angle. Heads terminal. Perianth 24 in. long, shaggy 
outside, “apparently white-rosy ” (Welwitsch). Ovary densely covered 
with rusty hairs 4 lin. long. Style after flowering 2} in. long.—Leuca- 
dendron micans, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 918. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in hilly places among low bushes 
near Bumba, between Quisonde and Condo, Welwitsch, 1589! 
20. P. melliodora, Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
224, fig. 96. A shrub up to about 2} ft. high. Younger branches very 
