Protea.] cxvii. proteace^ (baker and wright). 207 



linear-oblong, 2 in. long, 5 lin. wide. Flowers up to IJ in. long, white, 

 glabrous above except at the densely white pilose apex, rusty-pilose at 

 the middle and lower part. Anthers narrowly linear, about 5 lin. long ; 

 connective produced into a small ovate appendage. Ovary oblong, 1 j 

 lin. long, clothed at the base with brownish hairs 5 lin. long; style 

 tapering from a thickened base, purple at the apex. 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa: Unyikaj Uwurunga Mountains, 7200 

 ft., Goetze, 1455. 



34. P. Bismarckii, Engl. Hochgehirgsfl, Trop. Afr, 196, name 

 ■only. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : near Bismarckburg, Kling. 



85. P. ferruginea, Engl. Hochgehirgsjl. Trop. Afr, 197, naine 

 only. 



Soutb Central. Lunda : Mukenge, in Basliilange district, Pogge, 1415. 



o6. P. Paulina, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. ii. 77, name only. 

 wile Xiand. Nul)ia. 



87. P. Poggei, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop, Afr. 197. A dwarf 

 shrub Leaves smooth, oblong, acute. Heads oblong ; bracts lanceo- 

 late. 



Soutli Central. Lunda : Mukenge, in Basliilange district, Pogge, 1413. 



2. FAUREA, Harv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 170. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth clavate, incurved ; tube cylin- 

 dric, obliquely dilated at the base, finally slit down one side nearly to 

 the base ; lobes 4, 3 united higher than the fourth. Anthers sub- 

 sessile, linear ; connective obtuse, often shortly apiculate. Hypogynous 

 scales 4, usually triangular, acute or obtuse, persistent and spreading 

 at the base of the fruit. Ovary clothed with hairs twice to thrice 

 its length ; ovule solitary, attached to the side of the cell about half- 

 way up ; style long, subulate ; stigma small, terminal. Nut compressed, 

 very hairy. Seed orbicular. — Small or medium-sized trees. Leaves 

 alternate, entire, rigidly coriaceous, shortly petioled. Flowers in dense 

 fipikes or racemes, each in the axil of a small bract ; involucre none. 



Species about 10, extending to Madagascar and the Cape. 



Flowers racemose . . . . , . . 1. F. racemosa. 



Flowers spicate. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. 



Leaves permanently pubescent beneath . . 2. F. discolor. 



Leaves pilose beneath near the base only . . ^. F. intermedia. 



Leaves glabrous beneath (at least when mature). 

 Leaves up to 5 in. long. 



Branchlets rusty-pilose when young . . 4. jP. wentzeliana. 



Branchlets minutely pubescent when young . 5. F. saligna. 



