Faurea.] cxvii. proteace^ (baker and wright). 209 



3. P. intermedia, Ungl. d: Gilg m Baum, Kunene-Samh. Exped, 

 227. A tree 10-26 ft. high, with a rounded or pyramidal crown ; bark 

 with longitudinal clefts; young branches rather densely but shortly 

 grey-silky. Leaves lanceolate, acute, up to 4 in. long and 1 in. wide, 

 tapering downwards, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, greyish 

 and glabrous beneath except near the densely pilose base ; lateral 

 nerves many, subparallel, connected by intramarginal loops, prominent 

 on both surfaces; petiole 3 lin. long, grey-pilose. Spikes terminal on 

 the branches, about 3 in. long, very dense; rhachis densely grey- 

 tomeiitose ; peduncle 1 in. long. Perianth pubescent outside ; tube 

 3 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, acute, cucullate. Anthers apiculate. 

 Ovary clothed with "snow-white" hairs thrice as long as itself; style 

 as long as the perianth, faintly ribbed, narrowly clavate at the apex. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: on the Kubango above Kohi, 3400 ft., Baum, 912 I 

 Tiutch namQ " waterhogenhout." 



4. F. wentzeliana, Engl, Jahrb. xxx. 300. A tree 50-65 ft. high ; 

 ultimate branchlets up to 8 in. long with internodes 5 lin. long, rusty- 

 pilose when young, at length brown and glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, 

 cuneate at the base, nearly 5 in. long and IJ in. wide, coriaceous, 

 shining, the same colour on both surfaces ; lateral nerves many, slender, 

 slightly prominent ; petiole 5 lin. long, semiterete. Spikes 3 J in. long, 

 dense-flowered, in the axils of the upper leaves and at the apex of the 

 branches; rhachis and bracts densely and shortly pilose, the latter 

 ovate, concave, very small. Perianth about 6 lin. long, yellowish- 

 green, clavate below, tapering upwards and then expanding into a 

 clavate ashy- pilose limb, at first curved upwards, the upper part at 

 length reflexed. Anthers linear, 1 lin. long. Ov^ary small, with white 

 hairs 2\ lin. long; style slender, curved, 6 lin. long. 



IMEozaznb. I>lstr. German East Africa : Kinjra Mountains, Ussangu, in woody 

 ravines of Pikurugwe Mountain, 8175 ft., Ooetze, 992. 



5. F. saligna, Haw, in Hook, Lond. Jowni, Bot, vi. (1847), 373, 

 t, \b. A shrub or a tree up to 60 ft. high ; wood mottled (Dawe) ; 

 branches minutely adpressed-pubescent when young, glabrous in age. 

 Leaves lanceolate, sometimes slightly falcate, acute, up to 5 in. long 

 and 1 in. wide, tapering towards the base, glabrous, shining; lateral 

 nerves many, subparallel, uniting by loops just within the margin, 

 equally prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 6-9 lin. long, usually 

 glabrous, flat above. Spikes terminal on the branches, 3 in. long; 

 bracteoles J lin. long, concave, acute. Perianth pubescent outside; 

 tube 3 lin. long ; lobes 1 lin. long, acute, concave. Filaments com- 

 pressed, channelled down the inner face; anthers mucronate. Hypogy- 

 nous scales nearly 1 lin. long, acuminate from a broad deltoid base. 

 Ovary ovoid, clothed with hairs nearly four times its length ; style 

 about as long as the perianth, ribbed. — Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 344 ; 

 Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 65; Engl. Hoch^ebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 195, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. i. 921, 



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