642 PROTEACEA (Phillips & Stapf). | Fawrea. 
rangular, obtuse, up to 2 lin. long, passing with a sudden bend 
into the style. ) 
Eastern Recion: Natal, Gerrard, 1505! 
4. F. Macnaughtonii (Phillips); a tall forest tree, up to 60 ft. 
high, with a trunk 30 in. in diam. ; branchlets glabrous with a. 
greyish-brown bark ; leaves petioled, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceo- 
late, acute at both ends, 3-6 in. long, }—1 in. wide, coriaceous, 
drying olive-green, glossy above, glabrous ; lateral nerves numerous, 
very oblique, joining in short faint loops near the margin, like the 
veins raised on both sides ; petiole up to 1-1 in. long, glabrous ; 
inflorescence spicate, shortly peduncled, very dense, cylindrical, 
stout, 4-6 in. long; rhachis very minutely reddish-pubescent ;. 
bracts very broadly ovate, acute, }—? lin. long, reddish-pubescent ; 
adult flower-bud gently curved upwards, with a somewhat stout 
tube and a clavate subobtuse limb, not much wider than the tube, 
9-10 lin. long, very finely reddish-tomentellous ; perianth-sheath 
abruptly spreading and flattened out from below the middle ; 
limbs linear-oblong, subacute, over 3 lin. long, those of the sheath 
permanently united, except at the tips, and conniving; anthers 
subsessile, linear, 2? lin. long; apical gland ovoid, subacute 3. 
hypogynous scales subulate-lanceolate, 1 lin. long; ovary ovoid, 
covered with whitish hairs, up to 4 lin. long; style 8 lin. long, 
slightly curved, glabrous ; stigma linear in outline, quadrangular, 
to over 2 lin. long, passing with an obscure bend into the style. 
F. saligna, MacOwan in Agric. Journ. Cape of Good Hope, xii. 714, not 
of Harv. F. arborea, Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 297, t. 130, not of Engl. 
_Coast Recion: Knysna Div.; Gouna Forest at Klipkop near Knysna, 
McNaughton in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1948 ! and in Herb, MacOwan, 3312 ! 
According to MacOwan this tree is very rare in the locality cited above and 
flowers very rarely. Sim also records it on the authority of Mr. McNaughton 
from Blaauwkrantz and Zitzikamma, adding that there are only about 60 trees 
known in all, apart from some seedlings. He remarks on its absence from the 
Kaffrarian forests and the Transkei, but says that it is not very rare in the 
Egossa Forests and has been seen in the St. John’s and Pondoland forests. 
There are no specimens at hand from any of those forests, and it may be that 
the Eastern Faurea referred to by him under his F. arborea is really F. natalensis, 
Phillips, which resembles the former very much. 
5. F. speciosa (Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 63, t. 20); 
a bush or tree, 10-20 ft. high; branchlets greyish-tomentose or 
pubescent, after the peeling of the bark reddish ; leaves shortly 
petioled, broad-lanceolate to oblong, acute at both ends, 5-6 in. 
long, 14-3 in. broad, coriaceous, concolorous, densely greyish- 
tomentose when quite young, then more or less glabrescent and at 
length almost entirely glabrous, very coriaceous ; lateral nerves 
numerous, joining into a conspicuous submarginal nerve, like the 
veins much raised; petiole stout, 2-7 lin. long; inflorescence 
spicate, very shortly peduncled, very dense, cylindrical, very 
stout, 5-7 in. long; rhachis stout, tomentose; flowers spirally 
