Protea. | CXVII. PROTEACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 203. 
slightly tapering towards the base, straight or slightly curved, hairy on 
both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent, parchment-like ; nerves obvious on 
both surfaces, marginal ones distinct; midrib whitish-rosy or yellowish 
(Welwitsch). Heads terminal with one or two lateral, about 2 in. in 
diam.; outer bracts broadly ovate, gradually becoming larger inwards, 
densely white-silky on the back, shaggy on the margins; inner bracts. 
spathulate-oblong, 14 in. long, 4 lin. wide, at first silky on the back, at 
length glabrescent except at the apex. Perianth about 14 in. long, 
rosy, densely shaggy throughout; lobes linear, about 4 in. long. 
Anthers about 4 in. long. Style 14-1? in. long, white, sulcate along 
one side, slightly curved below the stigma; stigma 4 lin. long, sub- 
“clavate at the apex, sometimes gibbous at the base.—ZLeucadendron 
leucoblepharum, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 919. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in the more open of the Monino forests, 
Welwitsch, 1599! in open mixed forests between Lopollo and the Monino, in 
company with other forms of this or allied species, Welwitsch, 1601! 
24. P. myrsinifolia, Lngl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb, Exped. 
223. <A shrub 6-10 ft. high. Branches greyish pilose when young, at 
length quite glabrous. Leaves rather far apart, lanceolate, rounded at 
the apex, 5-7 in. long, about 1 in. wide, loosely silky pilose near the 
base (especially on the under surface) when young, almost glabrous 
when mature, coriaceous, shining on both surfaces; nerves numerous, 
equally prominent and reticulated on both surfaces, marginal none. 
Heads terminal on the branches, 3 in. in diam. ; bracts very numerous, 
outside very densely long yellow or golden silky tomentose, inside 
glabrous; outer ovate, acute, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. wide ; innermost oblong, 
rounded at the apex, 14 in. long, 9 lin. wide. Perianth 14 in. long, 
whitish, long and densely yellowish tomentose. Style after flowering 
about 1? in. long.—Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 129. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; on hills not far from the River Kubango, near 
Menemprenp, 4740 ft., Baum, 903 ! 
Native name “ mujunge wandonga.” 
25. P. trichanthera, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 329. Ashrub, 
with finely hairy branches. Leaves shortly but distinctly petioled, 
oblong, 5-6 in. long, 24-3 in. broad, very obtuse, deltoid or rather 
rounded at the base, rigidly coriaceous, dark green and glabrous on 
the upper surface, paler and densely pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves 
fine, raised, uniting in distinct intramarginal arches. Heads globose, 
3 in. in diam.; inner and central bracts oblong, 6 lin. wide, matted 
with drab tomentum on the back in the lower part, naked towards the 
tip. Perianth 2 in. long, glabrous from the base above the middle, 
densely clothed with soft spreading drab hairs in the upper swollen 
part. Anthers linear, hairy, 9 lin. long. Ovary densely hairy; style 
not exserted. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika Plateau at 
Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte. 
