200 cxvii. PROTEACELt: (baker and WRIGHT). [I*rotea. 



Var. brevifolia, Kiigl. I*ri. Ost-Afr. C. 165. Leaves sliorter than in the type, 

 slightly narrowed towards the base, softly pilose. 



irile X<and. Uganda : Butumbi, 620U ft., ex Engler. 

 The type also in South Africa. 



14. P. busseana, Enyl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 131. A tall shrub or a 

 tree. Branches pale rusty-pilose when young. Leaves erect, approxi- 

 mate, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, G in. 

 long, Ij in. wide; lateral nerves many, ascending at a very acute 

 angle, prominent on both surfaces. Heads turbinate below, dilated 

 and globose above ; bracts coriaceous, shortly white-tomentose, outer 

 ovate, 21in. long and wide, innermost linear-oblong, obtuse, IJ in. long, 

 5 lin. wide. Flowers 1| in. long, much longer than the bracts, rusty- 

 pilose below, white-pilose above ; upper perianth-limb boat-shaped, 

 3 -toothed. Anthers 6 lin. long, J lin. wide ; connective produced into 

 a short cone. Style thickened below, tapering above, much exserted 

 from the perianth. 



DSozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Makorro Mountains, near Lake Nyasa, 

 Busse, 788. 



Very closely allied to P. abyssinica, Willd. 



15. P. goetzeana, Enyl. Jahrh. xxx. 298, t. 9. A shrub up 

 to G^ ft. high. Branches rather densely adpressed pilose. Leaves 

 approximate, narrowly oblong from a rather broad sessile or half 

 amplexicaul base, about 4 in. long and 14 lin. wide, adpressed pilose, 

 coriaceous. Heads broadly turbinate, 2 in. in diam. ; bracts densely 

 fulvo-pilose, outer 5-6 -seriate, semiovate or ovate, innermost oblong, 

 \\ in. long, 5 lin. wide. Perianth white, long pilose, 3J in. long ; 

 tube elongate ; limb slightly curved at the apex. Anthers narrowly 

 linear, 3^ lin. long; connective produced into a triangular appendage. 

 Ovary elongate-oblong, clothed with yellowish-brown hairs 4 lin. long ; 

 style thickened at the base, tapering upwards ; stigma filiform. 



nfozamb. X>lstr. German East Africa: Upper Kondeland; Umalila, on the 

 Usanga Mountain, 7500 ft., Qoetze, 1367. 



16. P. chrysolepis, Enyl, d; Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 

 222, Jig. 95. A shrub or tree up to 13 ft. high ; branches very densely 

 grey tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves rather dense, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, rarely slightly rounded, taper- 

 ing to the base, 2J-4| in. long, 9-13 lin. wide, subcoriaceous, sessile 

 by a broad base ; nerves scarcely conspicuous in young leaves, loosely 

 and irregularly reticulate, equally prominent on both surfaces, marginal 

 percurrent. Heads terminal on the branches, up to 3 in. in diam. ; 

 bracts very numerous, densely imbricate, lower 2 lin. long, ovate, 

 acute, uppermost nearly 1 in. long and 5 lin. wide, densely and shortly 

 silvery silky outside, glabrous within, ovate, rounded at the apex. 

 Perianth silvery, very densely long yellowish silky, 1^ in. long. Style 

 much elongated after flowering, 2 in. long, thick and coriaceous. — Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxiii. 129. 



