Faurea. | CXVII. PROTEACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 209 
3. F. intermedia, Lngl. d: Gilg in Bawm, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
227. A tree 10-26 ft. high, with a rounded or pyramidal crown; bark 
with longitudinal clefts; young branches rather densely but shortly 
grey-silky. Leaves lanceolate, acute, up to 4 in. long and 1 in. wide, 
tapering downwards, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, greyish 
and glabrous beneath except near the densely pilose base; lateral 
nerves many, subparallel, connected by intramarginal loops, prominent 
on both surfaces; petiole 3 lin. long, grey-pilose. Spikes terminal on 
the branches, about 3 in. long, very dense; rhachis densely grey- 
tomentose; peduncle 1 in. long. Perianth pubescent outside; tube 
3 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, acute, cucullate, Anthers apiculate. 
Ovary clothed with “snow-white” hairs thrice as long as itself; style 
as long as the perianth, faintly ribbed, narrowly clavate at the apex. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: on the Kubango above Kohi, 3400 ft., Baum, 912! 
Dutch name “ waterbogenhout.”’ 
4, FP. wentzeliana, Hngl. Jahrb. xxx. 300. A tree 50-65 ft. high ; 
ultimate branchlets up to 8 in. long with internodes 5 lin. long, rusty- 
pilose when young, at length brown and glabrous, Leaves lanceolate, 
cuneate at the base, nearly 5 in. long and 1} in. wide, coriaceous, 
shining, the same colour on both surfaces; lateral nerves many, slender, 
slightly prominent; petiole 5 lin. long, semiterete. Spikes 34 in. long, 
dense-flowered, in the axils of the upper leaves and at the apex of the 
branches; rhachis and bracts densely and shortly pilose, the latter 
ovate, concave, very small. Perianth about 6 lin. long, yellowish- 
green, clavate below, tapering upwards and then expanding into a 
clavate ashy-pilose limb, at first curved upwards, the upper part at 
length reflexed. Anthers linear, 1 lin. long. Ovary small, with white 
hairs 24 lin. long; style slender, curved, 6 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. Germun East Africa: Kinga Mountains, Ussangu, in woody 
ravines of Pikurugwe Mountain, 8175 ft., Goetze, 992. 
5. F. saligna, Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847), 373, 
t. 15. A shrub or a tree up to 60 ft. high; wood mottled (Dawe) ; 
branches minutely adpressed-pubescent when young, glabrous in age. 
Leaves lanceolate, sometimes slightly falcate, acute, up to 5 in. long 
and 1 in. wide, tapering towards the base, glabrous, shining; lateral 
nerves many, subparallel, uniting by loops just within the margin, 
equally prominent on both surfaces; petiole 6—9 lin. long, usually 
glabrous, flat above. Spikes terminal on the branches, 3 in. long; 
bracteoles 4 lin. long, concave, acute. Perianth pubescent outside; 
tube 3 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, acute, concave. Filaments com- 
pressed, channelled down the inner face; anthers mucronate. Hypogy- 
nous scales nearly 1 lin. long, acuminate from a broad deltoid base. 
Ovary ovoid, clothed with hairs nearly four times its length; style 
about as long as the perianth, ribbed.—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 344; 
Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 65; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
195, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 921, 
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