Leucadendron] cxi. proteace^. 917 



however constant, and indeed in one species, namely Faurea 

 saligna Harv., the beard on the pistil sometimes remains white, 

 while in other cases it turns tawny or rufous. The marginate 

 condition of the leaves or otherwise is frequently a bad character 

 and difficult to distinguish. The limb of the perianth in some 

 species is circumscissile and deciduous. 



See Welw. Apontam. p. 548. n. 80, and p. 579. nota 9 (1859). 



In Huilla the Proteacese are held in high esteem for firewood, 

 and Welwitsch from his own experience confirmed their reputation. 



1. LEUCADENDRON L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 91 (1753), partly ; 

 non P. Br. (1810) ; nee Salisb. (1807). 



Lepidocarpiis Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 284 (1763). Protea Pv. Br. ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. p. 169 ; non L. (1753). 



1. L. angolense. 



Protea Angolensis Welw. Apontam. p. 586. n. 30 (1859) 

 {Protcea); Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 196 (1892). 



PuNGO Andongo.— An undershrub, 1| ft. high ; stems numerous 

 from the polycephalous rootstock, straight or oblique, simple, one- 

 headed, glabrous, greenish, sub-glaucescent , leaves glabrous, greenish, 

 sub-glaucescent, acutely hyaline on the margin ; head shortly turbinate 

 at the base ; the scales at first more or less silky-pubescent, soon 

 glabrate, dusky reddish, the inner ones elongated, rather longer than 

 the calyx, spathulate, densely silky-tomentellous from the base to the 

 middle • calyx 2^ in. long, the laminoe an inch long and bearded ; style 

 a little longer than the calyx ; stigma almost i in. long, sigmoid at the 

 base, gibbous. In wooded places among low bushes, near Banza de 

 Bumba and Condo, at an elevation of 3500 feet, plentiful ; ft. and 

 younc^ fr. end of March 1857. No. 1590. Leaves pale green ; flowers 

 from whitish to rosy. At the outskirts of Legummosai forests (cf. 

 Pterocarjms), the soil having a substratum of sandy schist, near the 

 Condo cataract, at an elevation of 3400 feet, sporadic ; fl. March 18o7. 

 A broad-leaved form. No. 1590&. An undershrub, 2 ft. high ; stems 

 csespitose ; flowers white, the involucres purplish. In thickets near 

 Bumba (Songo Condo), at 4000 feet altitude ; fr. March 18o7. Coll. 

 Carp. 887. At Condo ; fr March 1857. Coll. Carp. 888. 



Huilla.— A small tree, 6 to 8 or rarely 10 ft. high ; trunk 3 to 4 m. 

 in diameter, erect, loosely branched at the apex ; leaves hard coriaceous, 

 rigid, glaucous-green ; scales of the involucre velvety or silky-hoary or 

 silky-pubescent, at length sometimes glabrate on the back and margin 

 the lower ones greenish, the upper ones white at the base and rosy at 

 the apex, very rigid ; flowers whitish ; perianth-segments white, woolly, 

 f to I in. long or rarely longer ; style whitish, 2^ in. long, but httle 

 thickened at the base ; stigma ^ in. long, sigmoidly curved at the base ; 

 coma of the fruit rufous-ferruginous, softly silky. At the outskirts ot 

 rather open forests, on sandy mould, at the river Monino ; fl. and tr. 

 Feb. 1860. No. 1598. A tree, 7 to 9 ft. high ; trunk straight ; flowers 

 white, woolly ; involucral scales whitish-rosy. In light forests close 

 to the river Monino; fl. beginning of March 18b0 ;fr May 1860. 

 Coll. Carp. 18. In the Monino forests; fr. April 18bO. Coll. 



Carp. 892. . ^ n j^ ^ 



The specimens from Pungo Andongo appear to be dwart torms ot 

 the species. The Fungus n. 154 grew on the leaves at Bumba in 

 March 1857. 



