210 CXVII. PROTEACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | Faurea. 
incl. var. platyphylla, Welw.; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. 
Exped. 226. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria, Dalziel, 393! 
Wile Land. Uganda: Ankole Hills, 4500 ft., Dawe, 411! Ruwenzori, 6000— 
8000 ft., Dawe, 564! Eldama Ravine, 8000 ft., Hutchins! British East Africa: 
Mount Kenia, 9000-10,000 ft., Battiscombe, 79! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, in the mixed Monino forests, frequent by 
clear streams and at cataracts about Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1592! damp forests at 
the base of Morro de Monino, near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1593! on the Longa near 
Minnesera, 3900 ft., Baum, 647! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Zomba, 3000 ft., Whyte & 
MecClounie! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 13! 244! 422! Mount Malosa, 4000— 
6000 ft., Whyte! Stevenson Road, 4000-4500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8224! Ntondwe, 
Cameron, 148! Namasi, Cameron, 55! Moramballa, 3000 ft., Kirk / 
Also in South Africa. 
6. F. usambarensis, /ngl. Jahrb. xix. Beibl. 47, 29. A much- 
branched tree about 60 ft. high ; branchlets short, densely leafy, thinly 
adpressed-pilose. Leaves 2-3 in. long, about 9 lin. wide; lateral nerves 
8-9 on each side, patent ; petiole 24 lin. long. Spike densely flowered, 
very shortly pilose, nearly 5 in. long; bracts deltoid. Perianth 6 lin. 
long, dirty pale yellow. Ovary ovoid, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. thick, clothed 
with long dirty white hairs.—Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 69, and 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Mbaluland, between 
Heboma and Mbalu in clearings, Holst, 2602. 
Distinguished from F. saligna, Harv., by the shorter and somewhat thicker 
leaves, as well as by larger and denser inflorescence. 
7. F. arborea, Engl. Jahrb. xix. Beibl. 47,29. A tree 30-60 ft. 
high ; branchlets densely clothed with short hairs, grey when young, 
brown in age. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2-34 in. long, 1-14 in. wide, 
acute, cuneately narrowed to the base, subcoriaceous, slightly grey-silky 
when young, glabrous on both surfaces when mature; lateral veins 
erecto-patent, 10-12 on each side of the midrib, prominent on both 
surfaces, connected by loops near the margin. Spikes 5-6 in. long; 
rhachis and perianth coated with adpressed drab tomentum ; bracts 
minute, ovate, acute, from a very wide base. Perianth 6 lin. long; 
lobes of the lower lip oblong, 14 lin. long. Hypogynous scales } lin. 
long, deltoid, acute. Anthers bluntly mucronate, cells thickened at the 
base on the inner side. Ovary densely clothed with long erect hairs ; 
style finally 6 lin. long.—Eng]. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro, on the eastern 
slope of the Mue ravine, behind the mission station of Kilema, 4930 ft., Volkens, 
1690! Usambara, Buchwald ! 
8. F. decipiens, (. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 328. A 
small tree. Branches pubescent when young, rimose in age. Leaves 
from ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 7 in. long, 2-23 in. wide, glabrous and 
