Leucadendron] cxi. pkoteace^. 1)21 



above 5G00 ft. of elevution ; tt. April IHOO. No. 1597- Forming 

 little woods between Iluilla and the Monino ; fl. and fr. Nov. IHf/.tand 

 Jan. ISGO. Coi.i.. C.MU>. HUG. 



2. FAUREA llaiv. (1<S17) ; \\'ehv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 

 p. 62 (ISG'.I): Benth. Sc ILook. f. Gon. PI. iii. p. 170. 



Trichustaclnis Welw. Synopsu Explic. p. 19. n. 40 (18G2). 



1. F. saligna llarv. in Hook. Lend. Journ. Bot. vi. p. 373. 

 t. 15 (1S17); Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. G5 (18G9); 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsllora, p. 195 (1892). 



Hrii.L.v. — A robust shrub, resembling a willow in habit, about 8 ft. 

 high ; branches sparse and rambling, as well as the liraiichlets red- 

 purplish or blood-red ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, subfalcate, 4 to 

 10 times as long as broad, acute, apiculate, attenuate at the ba.se into 

 the petiole, coriaceous, somewhat hard and shining : inflorescence 

 terminal, flowers in long spikes, pale yellowish, marcescent, each borne 

 on a broad concave obtuse l)ract ; perianth thinly coriaceous, somewhat 

 rigid, tubular, cleft down to a little above the base, the tube flattened 

 and curved inwards, the limb with 3 spathulate cohering lobes and 

 with one lobe free and spreading ; stamens 4, inserted a little below 

 the apical concavity of the perianth-lobes ; filaments dilated, distinct ; 

 anthers quasi-impressed on the apical concavity of the perianth-lobes, 

 all equal and fertile : hypogynous scales 4, ovate-triangular, pale 

 yellowish, distantlj" free, adnate to the base of the perianth-tube 

 inside : ovary free, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style filiform, moderately curved 

 upwards ; stigma thicker than the style, cylindrical-clavate. rather 

 obtuse ; fruit bearded ; the beard white, turning yellow-dusky or 

 tawny after drying, sometimes remaining white. In tJie mi.xed Monino 

 forests, by the stream and in the Monino river itself ; frequent by 

 clear streams and at cataracts, usually associated with Ewienia (cf. 

 E. guineensix, var. liuHhnds ; Welw. herb. no. 4403) and willows (cf. 

 Salix suUcrrata Willd. ; Welw. herb. nos. G332, 13333), about Lopollo ; 

 fl. from Nov. to Feb. and again in April and May ; fr. May IBGO ; in 

 several places but nowhere abundant ; often mutilated by the flood 

 waters. No. 1592. A willow-like tree, 12 to 1,0 ft. high, with glaucous 

 foliage. Iluilla ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. Cull. Caki-. 891. 



Var. platyphylla Welw. ms. in herb. 



Leaves broader, 1 to 1 \ in. broad ; petioles shorter, yV to \ in. long. 



HuiLLA. — A small tree, 8 to 25 ft. high with rambling branches and 

 a very lax crown, or oftener lower shrubby and barren ; leaves some- 

 what rigid and on both faces glossy ; flowers yellowish, sometimes 

 resembling those of a Lm-anthioi. In the denser and more elevated 

 damp forests at the base of Morro de Monino, near Lopollo ; sparingly : 

 fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 1593. 



2. F. discolor Welw., I.e., p. G4 ; Engl., I.e. 



HriLLA. — A shrub G to 8 ft. high or occasionally tree-like ; leaves 

 constantly discolorous, more or less lanceolate, acute, apiculate, 

 delicately tomentose-hoary on both faces ; the young ones less 

 tomentose on both faces, hoary-pubescent above, afterwards glabrescent 

 above ; the adult ones shortly but densely hoary-tomentose also 

 beneath ; hypogj'nous scales ovate-deltoid, acute. In mixed sandy 

 woods, composed chiefly of Cifsidpinieii; (cf. Peltoph<n'iiiii (ifricdnum 

 Sond. ; Welw. Coll. Carp. 41), Parhiari (cf. P. Mobola Oliv. ; Welw. 



