204 cxvii. PROTEACE^ (baker AND wright). [Protea. 



26. p. madiensiSy Oliv. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxix. 143, ^ 92. A 

 small tree. Branches terete, smooth, with a reddish-brown deciduous 

 epidermis. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, tapering downwards, 6-8 

 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, finely short adpressed-hairy on both surfaces, 

 ■coriaceous ; nerves finely reticulate, equally prominent on both surfaces, 

 marginal faint. Heads up to 4 in. in diam., turbinate ; bracts glabres- 

 cent, outer broadly ovate, obtuse, 3 lin. long, 5 lin. wide, innermost 

 pink, linear, 3 in. long, 6 lin. wide. Perianth nearly 2 in. long, yellow, 

 " like a silvery sunflower " (Grant), or reddish, densely villous below, 

 glabrous or sparingly pilose above. Anthers linear, 3J lin. long ; con- 

 nective produced into a short triangular appendage. Ovary densely 

 clothed with rusty hairs.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 103, 115, B. 150, 0. 

 165; var. latifolia, Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 130. P. sp., T. Thoms. in 

 Speke, Nile, Append. 645. 



Kile ILand. Sudan : on high ground above the river Hiri near Dein Zubeit, 

 Balir-el-Ghazel, Broun! Bongo: Sabbi, Schweinfurth, 2669! Niamniam: Tu- 

 hami's Seriba, Schweinfurth, 3803 ! Nganje, Schweinfurth, 3940 ! Uganda : Madi 

 woods, Speke ^ Grant, 673 ! Ankole and Koki, Dawe, 420 ! British East Africa, 

 Powell, 28 ! 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa : Karagwe, 4000-5000 It., Scott -Elliott 

 8114! British Central Africa: Nyasuland ; Zomba, Kerr Cross, 15! Manganja 

 Hills, Metier! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! Namasi, Cameron, 44! 

 South-west slope of hills opposite Shibisa, Kirk ! Portu;j:iiese East Africa : between 

 Unangu and Lalie Shire, 3000-4500 ft., Johnson ! 



¥ orms. pilosa, Engl. Jalirb. xxxiii. 130. A tree about 8 ft. high. Branches and 

 leaves rather densely ashy -pilose. 



Mozamb. DlBtr. German East Africa: Ugoni, on the Makorro Mountains, 

 between Njuga and the Likonde River, Busse^ 741. 



The variety latifolia is stilted by Engler to differ from the type in having 

 broader leaves and the perianth almost glabrous above. The specimen of the typ« 

 at Kew has the perianth very sparingly pilose above, not densely so as shown in the 

 figure of it (I.e.). 



Native names " mzaza " and " king-geezee'* 



27. P. chionanthay var. tjrpica, Engl, d: Gilg in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samh. Exped. 225. A small shrub. Branches glabrous. Leaves 

 obovate to oblong, rounded (very rarely subacute) at the apex, long 

 <;uneate at the base, 5 in. long, 2 in. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, shining 

 on both surfaces ; nerves very numerous, closely reticulate, equally 

 prominent on both surfaces ; marginal nerves 2, thick. Heads 5 in. 

 in diam., solitary at the ends of branches ; bracts numerous, strongly 

 imbricate, outer ovate, subacute, 7 lin. long and wide, densely white 

 irilky but becoming glabrous near the apex outside, glabrous and white 

 within, innermost oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, 2\ in. long, 

 about 9 lin. wide. Perianth 2J in. long, very densely white-tomentose. 

 Style after flowering almost woody, pungent. — Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 

 130. 



X.ower Guinea. Angola : between the Chimpungu and Kulei Rivers, 4580 ft., 

 Baum, 863 ! 



Var. divaricata, Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kuuene-Samb. Exped. 226. A divaricate 



