640 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). [ Fawrea. 
Adult flower-buds 9-10 lin. long, slender, with a 
limb to over 3 lin. long ... ee (4) Macnaughtonii. 
Indumentum of branchlets and spikes densely greyish- 
tomentose, that of the branchlets coarse. Leaves 
tomentose, subglabrous only when quite old... (5) speciosa. 
1. F. Galpinii (Phillips) ; a tree or shrub, 8 ft. high ; branchlets 
glabrous or minutely pubescent when young, with a dark brown or 
blackish bark; leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, acute at both 
ends, 2-4 in. long, #-1 in. broad, coriaceous, drying blackish or 
dark brown on the upper and reddish-brown on the under surface, 
glabrous or minutely pubescent when quite young ; lateral nerves 
numerous, very oblique, not joining into a submarginal nerve, like 
the veins raised, particularly above ; petiole rarely over 2 lin. long, 
glabrous or obscurely pubescent; inflorescence racemose, shortly 
peduncled, cylindrical, usually 2 (rarely up to 34) in. long; rhachis 
greyish- or whitish-tomentose ; bracts broad-ovate, } lin. long, 
tomentose ; pedicels up to 14 lin. long; adult flower-bud slightly 
curved, with a slender tube gradually tapering upwards and an 
oblong subacute or obtuse limb, minutely and adpressedly pubescent, 
4151 lin, long; perianth-sheath flattened out, spreading, recurved 
in the upper part; limbs oblong, subacuminate, 1} lin. long, those 
of the sheath separating only at the tips; anthers subsessile, linear- 
oblong, 1-1} lin. long; apical glands ovoid, subacute ; hypogynous 
scales subulate from a triangular base ; ovary ovoid, }— lin. long, 
covered with whitish or (when dry) fulvous hairs up to 3 lin. long ; 
style 4 lin. long, curved upwards, particularly in the mature state ; 
stigma cylindric, slightly wider than the style and gradually or 
with a slight bend passing into it, 1 lin. long ; fruit subglobose, up 
to 14 lin. in diam. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal ; Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, Galpin, — 
944! Zoutpansberg Range, at Potato Bosch, Hastwood, 2435! Shilovane, Junod, 
5539! near Pilgrims Rest, Burtt-Davy, 5650! Macamac Falls, Burtt-Davy, 5651! 
2. F. saligna (Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 373, t. 15) ; 
a shrub or a tree, 8-20 ft. high ; branchlets glabrous or pubescent 
when young, with a greyish or pale brown bark ; leaves petioled, 
lanceolate, sometimes subfalcate, long and gradually tapering and 
acute at both ends, 3-6 in. long, }-1 (rarely to 14) in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, concolorous, densely pubescent in bud, very soon 
becoming glabrous and shining above; lateral nerves numerous, 
joining into a more or less distinct submarginal nerve, like the 
veins slightly raised ; petiole up to $ in. long, glabrous or pubescent ; 
inflorescence spicate, shortly peduncled, cylindric, 3-6 (rarely 2) 
in. long; rhachis greyish-pubescent ; bracts concave, broad-ovate, 
acute or obtuse, } lin. long; adult flower-bud slightly curved, with 
a tube gradually tapering upwards and an oblong or oblong-obovoid 
obtuse limb, minutely and adpressedly pubescent, 44—54 lin. long ; 
flower pale yellowish ; perianth splitting to or almost to the base, 
