Faurea.| PROTEACE# (Phillips & Stapf). 641 
sheath flattened out, spreading, recurved in the upper part ; limbs 
oblong, subobtuse, 1} lin. long, those of the sheath usually at 
length separating ; anthers subsessile, linear-oblong, 1-1} lin. long, 
apical gland minute, ovoid-globose ; hypogynous scales triangular, 
usually acute or acuminate, to over } lin. long; ovary ovoid, }—} 
lin. long, covered with whitish or (when dry) yellow hairs up to 3 lin. 
long; style 33-4} lin. long, gently curved upwards; stigma 
subclavate-cylindric, obtuse, up to 1 lin. long, gradually or with 
a faint bend passing into the style; fruit globose-ovoid, 2-2} lin. 
long, long-villous. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 344; Welw. in Trans. — 
Linn. Soc. xxvii. 65; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 195, and Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 164 ; Hiern, in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 921; Engl. & Gilg 
in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 226; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. 
Trop. Afr. vi. 209; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col, 297. 
KaLaHarr Reeion: Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, Burke! Zeyher, 1480! 
1481! Wahlberg, Sanderson! Boshveld, Rehmann! Barberton, Galpin, 868 ! near 
Nylstroom, Nelson, 112! Burtt-Davy, 2059! 2592! Rustenberg, Collins, 137 ! 
Miss Pegler, 1009! Warm Bath, Bolus, 12268! Burtt-Davy, 5648! Potgeiters 
Rust, Rogers, 329! and in Herb. Miss Leendertz, 1266! Tweefontein, Schlechter, 
4259! Marico district, Burtt-Davy, 7574! Zoutpansberg Range, Lastwood, 2433 ! 
Legat, 158! 
Appa Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 6 ! 1189! 
Also in Tropical Africa, although it is doubtful whether all the specimens 
referred to it represent typical F. saligna. 
Rogers in Herb. Leendertz 1266 has very long bracts subtending the flowers, 
longer than in any other specimen we have seen. It may be a distinct species, 
but the material is too young to decide definitely. 
3. F. natalensis (Phillips); branchlets glabrous or finely and 
sparingly pubescent upwards, with a blackish bark ; leaves petioled, 
oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 2—3 in. long, 1-1} 
in. broad, coriaceous, drying olive-green or brown on both sides, 
glabrous, lateral nerves numerous, very oblique, joining in short 
faint loops near the margin, like the veins raised on both sides ; 
petiole 4-1} in. long, glabrous; inflorescence spicate, shortly 
peduncled, cylindrical, stout, very dense, 34-5 in. long ; rhachis 
reddish, minutely pubescent, stout; bracts very broad, acute, 
3-3 lin. long, glabrescent ; adult flower-buds more or less curved 
upwards or the subterminal almost straight, with a somewhat 
stout tube and a wide base and a clavate subobtuse or subacute 
limb, up to 7 lin. long, very finely reddish-tomentellous ; perianth- 
sheath recurved, spreading and flattened out from below the middle ; 
limbs lanceolate-oblong, subacute, 24 lin. long, those of the sheath at 
length separating, but more or less tightly conniving; anthers 
subsessile, linear-oblong, 1}-2 lin. long; apical gland ovoid, 
minute ; hypogynous scales subulate from a triangular base to over 
1 lin. long ; ovary ovoid, 1 lin. long, covered when dry with fulvous 
hairs up to almost 5 lin. long; style 6 lin. long, curved upwards 
from below the middle, giabrous ; stigma linear in outline, quad- 
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