40 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
Hab. Milanji. No. 30. 
Nearly allied to Protea madiensis, Oliver (Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. I. xxix. p. 143), the 
glabrous capitulum being about the same size in each and having a similar arrangement of 
bracts; but the leaves differ very markedly, those of P. madiensis being larger, oval, and 
more pointed, 7 in. long by 23-23 broad, while the perianth-tube is densely villose. 
They are both allied to P. abyssinica, Hochst., which, however, is at once distinguished 
by the white sericeous bracts, hairy perianth, and differently shaped leaves. 
ARTHROSOLEN FLAVUS, Rendle, sp. n. Frutex ramis sesquipedalibus, teretibus, striatis, 
glabratis, viridibus ; foliis sparsis, adscendentibus, inferioribus lineari-lanceolatis, basi 
longe attenuatis, superioribus lineari-subulatis, uninerviis, glabris, rugulosis ; invo- 
lucris squamis, multiseriatis, imbricatis, quam flores minoribus, glabris, exterioribus 
lanceolatis acuminatis, interioribus ovatis acutis vel subacuminatis; capitulo semi- 
globoso, multifloro; perianthio flavo, tubo gracili minute pubescente, limbi lobis 
patentibus obovatis. 
Flowering branches of the present year only, 14 ft. long, terete, striate, glabrous, green. 
Leaves scattered, ascending, linear-lanceolate, below with a long attenuate base, 
becoming linear-subulate above, apex subacute, one-nerved, glabrous, rugulose, 8-10 lines 
long, 4-1 line broad.  Involucral bracts multiseriate, imbricate, outer lanceolate, 
acuminate, inner ovate, acute or subacuminate, shorter than the flowers, glabrous, 
green, except the innermost, which are yellowish. Capitula hemispherical, many- 
flowered, ¿ in. long by i in. broad. Pedicels i-i line long; a tuft, 1 line long, of stiff 
eolourless persistent hairs surrounds the base of the perianth.  Perianth yellow ; tube 
minutely pubescent, 43 lines long, j line in diameter; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 
apiculate, minutely pubescent below, minutely papillose above, 2 lines long, more than 
1 line broad at the base. No scales on the perianth. Stamens sessile, in two whorls 
of four; anthers of upper row linear-oblong, acute, slightly exserted, $ line long, of 
lower row oblong, with a rounder apex. Style short, filiform, about 1 line long. 
Stigma capitate, hairy. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft. (4. Whyte, no. 99; Herb. Mus. Brit); Blantyre (L. Scott; 
Herb. Kew). 
Near A. glaucescens, Oliver (Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 96), but the latter is a very 
glaucous plant, smaller, and has red flowers ; the perianth-limb, moreover, is lanceolate, 
13 lines long, and less than 1 line at the broadest part, while that of 4. flavus is obovate, 
2 lines long, and more than 1 line broad. 
GNIDIA MICROCEPHALA, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 589. 
Hab. Milanji and Zomba, Sept. and Oct. 1891 (4. Whyte); Zomba and east end of 
Lake Shirwa, Oct. 1861, Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition (C. T. Meller; Herb. 
Kew); Namuli, Makua Country (J. T. Last; Herb. Kew); Biggarsberg, 4000 ft. 
(J. M. Wood; Natal Govt. Herb. no. 846); Macalisberg, Transvaal (Burke, no. 96); 
Kitui in Ukamba (Hildebrandt, no. 2807). 
