Protea. | CXVII, PROTEACE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 207 
linear-oblong, 2 in. long, 5 lin. wide. Flowers up to 14 in. long, white, 
glabrous above except at the densely white pilose apex, rusty-pilose at 
the middle and lower part. Anthers narrowly linear, about 5 lin. long ; 
connective produced into a small ovate appendage. Ovary oblong, 14 
lin. long, clothed at the base with brownish hairs 5 lin. long; style 
tapering from a thickened base, purple at the apex. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Unyika; Uwurunga Mountains, 7200 
ft., Goetze, 1455. 
34, P. Bismarckii, Hngl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 196, name 
only. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: near Bismarckburg, Kling. 
35. P. ferruginea, Hngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 197, name 
only. 
South Central. Lunda: Mukenge, in Bashilange district, Pogge, 1415. 
36. P. Paulina, Hndl. Gen. Suppl. iv, ii. 77, name only. 
Nile Land. Nubia. 
37. P. Poggei, Hngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 197. A dwarf 
shrub Leaves smooth, oblong, acute. Heads oblong; bracts lanceo- 
late. 
South Central. Lunda: Mukenge, in Bashilange district, Pogge, 1413. 
2. FAUREA, Harv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 170. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth clavate, incurved; tube cylin- 
dric, obliquely dilated at the base, finally slit down one side nearly to 
the base; lobes 4, 3 united higher than the fourth. Anthers sub- 
sessile, linear ; connective obtuse, often shortly apiculate. Hypogynous 
scales 4, usually triangular, acute or obtuse, persistent and spreading 
at the base of the fruit. Ovary clothed with hairs twice to thrice 
its length ; ovule solitary, attached to the side of the cell about half- 
way up; style long, subulate; stigma small, terminal. Nut compressed, 
very hairy. Seed orbicular.—Small or medium-sized trees. Leaves 
alternate, entire, rigidly coriaceous, shortly petioled. Flowers in dense 
spikes or racemes, each in the axil of a small bract; involucre none. 
Species about 10, extending to Madagascar and the Cape. 
Flowers racemose. ‘ : ; E - . 1. F racemosa. 
Flowers spicate. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. 
Leaves permanently pubescent beneath : . 2. F. discolor. 
Leaves pilose beneath near the base only. . 38. F. intermedia. 
Leaves glabrous beneath (at least when mature). 
Leaves up to 5 in. long. 
Branchlets rusty-pilose when young... . 4 F. wentzeliana. 
Branchlets minutely pubescent when young . 5. F. saligna. 
