Faurea.'] cxvii. proteace^ (baker and wrioht). 211 



shining above, laxly pubescent beneath ; margins recurved ; lateral 

 nerves numerous, slender but conspicuous on both surfaces, connected 

 by intramarginal loops and many slender veinlets ; petiole 6 lin. long, 

 plano-convex, pubescent. Spikes solitary or clustered at the end of the 

 branches, up to 9 in. long, dense-flowered ; bracts minute, deltoid, acute, 

 tomentose. Perianth slender, 8 lin. long, pubescent outside; tube J lin, 

 in diam. in bud ; lobes oblong, acute. Hypogynous scales shortly tri 

 angular, acute, sometimes bifid. Anthers linear, bluntly mucronate 

 Ovary ovoid, clothed with hairs thrice as long as itself ; style rather 

 shorter than the perianth. 



Mozamb. Slstr. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Adamson, 75 ! Buchanan, 1 ! Tshinmuzo, 3500 ft., Kirk ! 



9. F. speciosa, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 63, t. 20. A shrub 

 6-8 ft. high or a tree up to 15 ft. high with a trunk 8 in. in diam. at 

 the base ; bark deeply furrowed ; branchlets rather stout, at first 

 densely villous, finally more or less pubescent through the falling ofi" of 

 the longer hairs. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, shortly cuneate 

 at the base, up to 6 in. long and 3 in. wide, densely villous or woolly 

 on both surfaces or at length subglabrous above ; midrib prominent 

 beneath; lateral nerves spreading, sometimes forking, main branches 

 connected by slender intramarginal loops. Spikes in the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves of the branches ; rhachis villous ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, villous. Perianth 1 in. long, slightly curved, densely 

 tomentose outside, yellow or orange ; tube subcylindrical ; lobes 2J lin. 

 long, navicular, acute, rather thick. Anthers oblong, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, thickly apiculate. Hypogynous scales shortly oval or semi- 

 orbicular. Ovary ovoid, clothed with white silky hairs at least twice as 

 long as itself ; style filiform, rather shorter than the perianth ; stigma 

 obscurely 4-sulcate. Nut subglobose, the size of a small pea. — Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 195, Glied. Veg. Usambara, 60, 63, Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. 0. 164, and Jahrb. xxx. 301 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 922, 

 incl. vars. lanuginosa, Hiern, aciitifolia, Welw., and liicidula, Welw. ; 

 Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 227. Trichostachys 

 speciosa, Welw. Syn. Explic. 19. 



l^o^^er Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in the more elevated woody rocky places 

 between Lopollo and Humpata, Welwitsch, 1622 ! between Limekiln and Humpata, 

 6200 ft., Pearson, 2622 ! near Nene, Welwitsch, 1622b ' in the drier mixed forests 

 between Kme and Lake Ivaiitala, Weltoitsch, 1623 ! between Mumpulla and Curae de 

 Xella, Welwitsch, 1624 ! Malange, Gossweiler, 1016 ! on tlie Kutsi and Kubango 

 Rivers, Baum, 897 ! 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Kwa Mshusa, Hoist, 

 9116! Kinga (Livingstcme) Mountains, Goetze, 996. liritisli Central Africa: 

 Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 180! Fort Hill, Tanganyika 

 Pliteau, Whyte! 



Also in South Africa. 



Ranm states that this is called " hogenhoiit " by the IJoers and " mujunge " by 

 the Kaffirs. 



