Faurea. | CXVII. PROTEACE& (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 211 
shining above, laxly pubescent beneath; margins recurved; lateral 
nerves numerous, slender but conspicuous on both surfaces, connected 
by intramarginal loops and many slender veinlets ; petiole 6 lin. long, 
plano-convex, pubescent. Spikes solitary or clustered at the end of the 
branches, up to 9 in. long, dense-flowered ; bracts minute, deltoid, acute, 
tomentose. Perianth slender, 8 lin. long, pubescent outside; tube 4 lin, 
in diam. in bud ; lobes oblong, acute. Hypogynous scales shortly tri 
angular, acute, sometimes bifid. Anthers linear, bluntly mucronate 
Ovary ovoid, clothed with hairs thrice as long as itself; style rather 
shorter than the perianth. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Adamson, 75! Buchanan, 1! Tshinmuzo, 3500 ft., Kirk / 
9. F. speciosa, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 63, t. 20. A shrub 
6-8 ft. high or a tree up to 15 ft. high with a trunk 8 in. in diam. at 
the base; bark deeply furrowed ; branchlets rather stout, at first 
densely villous, finally more or less pubescent through the falling off of 
the longer hairs. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, shortly cuneate 
at the base, up to 6 in. Jong and 3 in. wide, densely villous or woolly 
on both surfaces or at length subglabrous above; midrib prominent 
beneath ; lateral nerves spreading, sometimes forking, main branches 
connected by slender intramarginal loops. Spikes in the axils of the 
uppermost leaves of the branches; rhachis villous; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, villous. Perianth 1 in. long, slightly curved, densely 
tomentose outside, yellow or orange ; tube subcylindrical ; lobes 2 lin. 
long, navicular, acute, rather thick. Anthers oblong, sessile or sub- 
sessile, thickly apiculate. Hypogynous scales shortly oval or semi- 
orbicular. Ovary ovoid, clothed with white silky hairs at least twice as 
long as itself; style filiform, rather shorter than the perianth ; stigma 
obscurely 4-sulcate. Nut subglobose, the size of a small pea.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 195, Glied. Veg. Usambara, 60, 63, Pfl. Ost- 
Afr. C. 164, and Jahrb. xxx. 301 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 922, 
incl. vars. lanuginosa, Hiern, acutifolia, Welw., and lucidula, Welw. ; 
Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 227. T'richostachys 
speciosa, Welw. Syn. Explic. 19. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in the more elevated woody rocky places 
between Lopollo and Humpata, Welwitsch, 1622! between Limekiln and Humpata, 
6200 ft., Pearson, 2622! near Nene, Welwitsch, 16228! in the drier mixed forests 
between Eme and Lake Ivantala, Welwitsch, 1623! between Mumpulla and Cume de 
Xella, Welwitsch, 1624! Malange, Gossweiler, 1016! on the Kutsi and Kubango 
Rivers, Baum, 897! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshusa, Holst, 
9116! Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, Goetze, 996. British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 180! Fort Hill, Tanganyika 
Plateau, Whyte! 
Also in South Africa. 
Baum states that this is called “ bogenhout” by the Boers and “ mujunge” by 
the Kaffirs. 
