Faurea.| PROTEACE# (Phillips & Stapf). 643 
arranged, almost contiguous with their bases or slightly distant, 
sometimes almost verticillate, with the whorls close, bracts very 
broadly-ovate, acute, } lin. long, tomentose; adult flower-bud 
curved upwards, with a cylindric tube, widened at the base, and 
an obovoid-oblong subobtuse limb, much wider than the tube, 9-10 
lin. long, greyish-tomentose ; perianth at length splitting down to 
the base with the abaxial segment long or permanently adhering 
to the lower third ; sheath spreading and -flattened out from below 
the middle ; limbs. linear-oblong, subacute, to over 3 lin. long, those 
of the sheath at length more or less separating and opening out, or 
permanently conniving ; anthers subsessile, linear, 2-24 lin. long ; 
apical gland ovoid, subobtuse ; hypogynous scales triangular, acute, 
1 lin. long ; ovary ovoid, covered when dry with fulvous hairs, at 
length up to 5 lin. long ; style 9-11 lin. long, more or less curved, 
glabrous ; stigma linear in outline, obtuse, quadrangular, 14-2 lin. 
long, very slightly wider than the style and set off from it by a 
minute bend ; fruit subglobose, 3 lin. long, long-villous with a very 
thick shell. Engl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 195; Glied. Veg. 
Usambara, 60, 63; Pf. Ost-Afr. C, 164; Jahrb. xxx. 301; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 922; Engl. d& Gilg in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 227; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. 211. 
Trichostachys speciosa, Welw. Syn. Eaxplic. 19. 
KarLaHart Recion: Transvaal; Woodbush Mountains, Mrs. Barber, 2! 
Hutchins! Barberton, Galpin, 402! Bolus, 9756! Elands Hoek, Rogers, 391! 
and without precise locality, Burtt-Davy, 333! 356! ; 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
VII. MIMETES, Salish. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth-tube very short 
or wanting ; segments 4, filiform or linear-filiform, often villous ; 
limb linear or oblong-linear, usually villous, rarely glabrescent. 
Stamens 4 ; filament short and fleshy, often fused with the perianth ; 
anthers linear; connective produced into an acute or rounded 
apical appendage. Hypogynous scales 4, free, usually filiform or 
linear, rarely ovate-lanceolate. Ovary sessile, pubescent ; style 
exserted, erect, terete, mostly glabrous, usually terminal, rarely 
oblique ; stigma smooth, terete or linear, rarely subquadrangular, 
acute or obtuse, sometimes swollen at the apex, more or less kneed 
or sinuate at the junction with the style; ovule solitary. Fruits 
ovoid, glabrescent, with a slightly hardened pericarp. 
Erect or subdecumbent undershrubs with simple tomentose or villous stems 2 
leaves mostly oblong-elliptic or ovate, with a callous entire or 3-dentate apex, 
mostly densely adpressed silky-tomentose or villous ; flower-heads sessile, solitary 
in the upper leaf-axils, 3-12-flowered ; involucral bracts usually shorter than the 
flowers, membranous or coriaceous, often villous or tomentose, frequently coloured ; 
receptacle densely setose. 
Distris. Species about 9, confined to the South-western part of Cape Colony. 
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