Protea.'] cxvii. proteace^ (baker and wright). 



Lateral nerves ascending. 



195 



1. p. Baumii, Engl, d- Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped, 221, 

 fig. 94. A shrub nearly 4 ft. high. Branches glabrous, brown. Leaves 



rather dense, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, long cuneate at the base, 

 3-4 in. long, 4 lin. wide, quite glabrous, coriaceous, opaque ; nerves very 

 slightly raised on both surfaces, marginal inconspicuous. Heads terminal 

 on the branches, 4 in. in diam.; bracts many, much imbricate, loosely 

 and very shortly silky outside, glabrous or nearly so inside, white edged 

 with brownish yellow, lower ovate, acute, 5 lin. long, upper lanceolate 

 or obovate-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, 2 in. long, all about 5 lin. 

 wide. Perianth rosy and silvery, very densely long white- silky, up to 

 nearly 2 in. long. Style very slightly elongating after flowering, 2 in. 

 long. — Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 129. 



Xicrwer Guinea. Angola : in or by swamps on the right bank of the Kubango 

 River, opposite the mouth of the Kueio, 3600 ft., Baum, 375 ! 



2. P. hsemantha, Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped, 220, 

 fig. 93. A prostrate shrub. Branches rising here and there to a height 



