210 cxvii. proteacetE (baker and WRIGHT). [Faurea, 



incl. var. platyphylla, Welw. ; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 220. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria, Dalziel, 393 ! 



Wile Z.and. Ugandii: Aukole Hills 4500 ft., Dawe, 411 ! Ruwenzori, 6000- 

 8000 ft., Daive, 564! Eldama Ravine, 8000 ft., Hutchins ! British East Africa: 

 Mount Kcnia, 9000-10,000 ft., Battiscombe, 79 ! 



Aower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, in the mixed Monino forests, frequent by 

 clear streams and at cataracts about Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1592 ! damp foi ests at 

 the base of Morro de Monino, near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1593 ! on the Longa near 

 Minnesera, 3900 ft., Baum, 647 ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. British Central Africa: Zomba, 3000 ft., TJlii/fe <^ 

 McCluunie ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 13! 2-14! 422! Mount Malosa, 4000- 

 6000 ft., Whyte! Stevenson Koad, 4000-4500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8224! Ntondwe, 

 Cameron, 148 ! Namasi, Cameron, 55 ! Moramballa, 3000 ft.. Kirk ! 



Also in South Africa. 



6. P. us^mbarensis, Engl. Jahrh. xix. Beihl. 47, 29. A much- 

 branched tree about 60 ft. high ; branchlets short, densely leafy, thinly 

 adpressed-pilose. Leaves 2-3 in. long, about 9 lin. wide; lateral nerves 

 8-9 on each side, patent ; petiole 2J lin. long. Spike densely flowered, 

 very shortly pilose, nearly 5 in. long ; bracts deltoid. Perianth 6 lin. 

 long, dirty pale yellow. Ovary ovoid, 2 lin. long, \\ lin. thick, clothed 

 with long dirty white hairs, — Engl. Glied. Veg. IJsambara, GO, and 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 104. 



HCozamb. 3>lstr. German Rast Africa: Usambara ; Mbaluland, between 

 Heboma aiid Mbalu in clearings, Hoist, 2602. 



Distini>:ui-;licd from F. saliqua, Haiv., hy the shurter and sonxcwhat thicker 

 leaves, as well as by larger and denser inflorescence. 



7. F. arborea, Engl. Jahrh. xix. Beihl 47, 20. A tree ;^.0-60 ft. 

 high ; branchlets densely clothed with short hairs, grey when young, 

 brown in age. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2-3^ in. long, 1-1 1^ in. wide, 

 acute, cuneately narrowed to the base, subcoriaceous, slightly grey-silky 

 when young, glabrous on both surfaces when mature ; lateral veins 

 erecto-patent, 10-12 on each side of the midrib, prominent on both 

 surfaces, connected by loops near the margin. Spikes 5-6 in. long ; 

 rhachis and perianth coated with adpressed drab tomentum ; bracts 

 minute, ovate, acute, from a very wide base. Perianth 6 lin. long ; 

 lobes of the lower lip oblong, 1 J lin. long. Hypogynous scales J lin. 

 long, deltoid, acute. Anthers bluntly mucronate, cells thickened at the 

 base on the inner side. Ovary densely clothed with long erect hairs ; 

 style finally 6 lin. long.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164. 



Mozamb. Slstr. Gern)an East Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro, on the eastern 

 slope of the Mue ravine, behind the mission station of Kilema, 4930 ft., Volkens, 

 1690 ! Usambara, Buchivald ! 



8. F. decipiens, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1900, 328. A 

 small tree. Branches pubescent when young, rimose in age. Leaves 

 from ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 7 in. long, 2-2f in. wide, glabrous and 



