Protea. | CXVII. PROTEACE& (BAKER AND WRIGHT), 205 
shrub up to 8 ft. high. Heads terminating thick old leafless (never leafy) branches. 
Leafy branches lateral, slender.—Leucadendron angolense, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 917, partly. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between the River Kubango and Mundongo and on 
to Kassinga, 4580 ft., Baum, 920! Angola: Pungo Andongo, near the Condo 
Cataract, 3400 ft., Welwitsch, 1590B ! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Blan- 
tyre (only one tree seen), Buchanan! Rhodesia: Broken Hill, Rogers, 8031! 
28. P. angolensis, Welw. Apont. 586. A shrub or rarely small 
tree up to 10 ft. high. Stem erect, upto 4 in. indiam. Leaves elliptic 
or ovate, up to 5 in. long and 2} in. wide, usually obtuse, cuneate at 
the base, glabrous, coriaceous ; main veins pinnate, smaller ones reticu- 
late and obvious on both surfaces; marginal veins thickened. Head 
terminal, 5 in. in diam.; bracts rigid except at the membranous 
margin, obtuse, outermost 3 lin. long, innermost oblanceolate, 23 in. 
long, 7 lin. wide, silky pubescent outside at first, soon glabrous and 
reddish. Perianth 24 lin. long, white to rosy, angular below, filiform 
and almost glabrous in the central part, larger and densely hairy in the 
upper 5lin. Anthers linear, 5lin.long. Ovary subtended by brownish 
silky hairs 8 lin. long; style only slightly longer than the perianth.— 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl.. Trop. Afr. 196; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 165. 
Leucodendron angolense, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 917, partly. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in wooded places near banza de 
Bumba and Condo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 1590! Huilla:; at the outskirts of rather 
open forests near the River Mouino, Welwitsch, 1598! open forest above Huilla, 
5600 ft., Pearson, 2652! Malange district, Gossweiler, 1018! Feira, Buchner, 54, 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland: Fwambo, south of 
Lake Tanganyika, 5250 ft., Nutt / 
Var. albiflora, Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 380, and xxx. 296. Bracts densely white-pilose 
except at the glabrous apex. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uhehe, in pastures on plateaus near 
Funda, 5200 ft.; Goetze, 720. 
Welwitsch’s 1590 bas numerous stems from the rootstock, probably owing to the 
plant having been broken down and dormant buds afterwards stimulated to growth. 
29. P. Elliottii, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 328. A 
shrub. Branches white-pilose when young, glabre-cent. Leaves broadly 
ovate, 54 in. long, 22 in. wide, obtuse, cuneate and almost petioled at 
the base, pilose when young, coriaceous, light green ; secondary nerves 
ascending, prominent on both surfaces; marginal veins thick. Heads 
terminal, globose, 44in. in diam.; bracts adpressed-silky outside, outer 
broadly ovate, inner oblanceolate, obtuse, 2 in. long, 5 lin. wide. 
Perianth 12 in. long, densely shaggy, and with a tuft of hairs 4 lin. 
long at the base ; upper lip boat-shaped, lower narrow. Anthers linear, 
34 lin. long ; connective subulate above. Style a little longer than the 
perianth ; stigma small. : 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Gungeru, Elliott, 9! Dalziel, 69! 
