198 CXVII. PROTEACE^ (bAKER AND WRIGHT). [Pvotea, 



nerves numerous and slender, finely reticulated, equally conspicuous on 

 both surfaces, none truly marginal ; petiole about 1 J in. long. Heads 

 numerous, more or less oblique at the ends of branchlets, globose, 

 almost hidden by the leaves; bracts glabrous or silky, ciliate, outer 

 ovate or semicircular, 2 lin. long, inner up to 2 J in. long, oblong. 

 Perianth up to 2J in. long, pilose or sometimes glabrous above. Ovary 

 densely clothed with rusty hairs ; style nearly 2 in, long. — Leucadendron 

 petiolare, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 920. 



jMO^rer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in open forests in Morro de Lopollo, above 

 5600 ft., Welwitsch, 1597 ! slopes leading down to Lubai.go, 6200 ft., Pearson, 

 2648! 



9. P. pratico^la, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 297. An undershrub 1 ft. 

 high. Stems 2 lin. in diam., densely leafy, pilose when young. Leaves 

 linear-oblong or oblong-subspathulate, obtuse, 3 in. long, 9 lin. wide, 

 pilose when young, scarcely petioled, shining above ; nerves somewhat 

 prominent below, dichotomously branching a short distance above the 

 base. Bracts densely ciliate, outer in about 8 rows, ovate, 5 lin. long, 

 innermost oblong, l| in. long, 5 lin. wide. Perianth about as long as 

 the innermost bracts, white, glabrous at the base, densely and shortly 

 white-pilose above. Anthers 3J lin. long, linear ; connective produced 

 into a short subtriangular appendage. Ovary clothed with rusty hairs 

 4 lin. long; style thickened at the base, 9 lin. long, geniculate below, 

 attenuate above. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Unyika, Uwurungu Mountain, near 

 Umalila, 7200 ft.. Goetze, 1460. 



10. P. kilimandscharicay Engl. Hochgehirgsji. Trop. Afr. 195. 

 A shrub. Branches glabrous, terete. Leaves oblanceolate, subacute, 

 4 in. long, 1 in. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, with a distinct cartilaginous 

 sometimes undulate border ; veins loosely reticulate, obvious on both 

 surfaces. Heads about 2 in. in diam.; outer bracts ovate, 3 lin, long, 

 ciliate on the margin, otherwise glabrous, uppermost linear-oblong, 2 J in. 

 long, 4 lin. wide, rusty pilose at the apex. Perianth about as long as 

 the innermost bracts, densely silky above. Anthers linear. Style 

 about as long as the perianth, angular below, subulate above. — Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxx. 299; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 135, 138, C. 165. 



Mozamb. Sistr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, Kiiinika Volcano, 



9000 ft., Volkens, 929 ! 9000 to 13,000 ft., Johnston, 156 ! last zone of vegetation 



below perpetual snow, New J Meyer, 121, 264, Hohnel, 170; Rungwe Stock, 

 9480 ft., Goette, 1152. 



Native name " segera " ( Ooetze). 



11. P. Nyasse, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 39. 

 Caulescent. Leaves oblong, rounded and emarginate at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, 2-2| in. long, 6-7 lin. wide, sessile, 1-nerved, 

 glabrous, coriaceous. Head terminal, turbinate, 3J in. in diam. ; bracts 

 m many rows, smooth, outer broadly ovate, ciliolate, innermost spathu- 

 late oblong, glabrous. Perianth IJ in. long, glabrous or very slightly 



