LeiMMdendron] cxi. proteacea . 919 



branchlets distant ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, greenish, glancesoent, 

 glabrous on both faces. In an elevated forest, about 3600 ft. eleva- 

 tion, near Pedras de Gruinga, very rare ; fl. March 1857. No. 1591. 



This is the third species of the genus mentioned by Welwitsoh, 

 Apontam. p. 579, Note 9, and p. 548, n. 80. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high, erect, sparingly branched ; 

 branches erect-spreading ; probably a young tree. In a hot mixed 

 forest from Catumba towards Hay ; March 1860. No. 1603. 



4. L. leucoblepharum, Hiem, sp. n. 



A small tree, 12 to 15ft. high; crown very lax; branches 

 rambling, ascending, dusky, glabrate ; branchlets pubescent and 

 densely leafy at the tip ; leaves oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 more or less obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subSessile 

 base, straight or subfalcate, pilose or both faces with sparse 

 hyaline gUstening rather long adpressed hairs, membranous- 

 herbaceous, somewhat rigid, not coriaceous, spreading, ciliate on 

 the white sub-membranous entire margin, 4 to 6 in. long by f to 

 1 in. broad ; midrib whitish-rosy or yellowish, evanescent toward 

 the apex of the leaf ; flower-heads solitary at the apex of the 

 branches of the previous year or accompanied by one or two 

 lateral heads, obovoid-turbinate, about 2 in. long and broad; 

 flowers rosy ; involucral scales rosy, adpressed ; the outer ones 

 broadly ovate, silky-tomentose on the back, very obtuse, densely 

 ciliate with a whitish cottony margin ; the inner ones elongated, 

 spathulate, about as long as the flowers, partly glabrate, bearded 

 at the apex with rather long white hairs; perianth 1^ to Ifin. 

 long, densely shaggy nearly throughout with spreading or some- 

 what adpressed hairs ; the lobes ^^'to |- in. long, linear, not aristate, 

 in a hooded manner shortly comiculate with the little horns con- 

 cealed by hairs, the intermediate one of the 3-lobed lip not shaggy 

 but slightly pubescent or nearly bald on the back, rosy and 

 without a nerve ; anthers about ^ in. long, shorter than the 

 perianth ; style naked, l^ Ito If in. long, white, but little com- 

 pressed-dilated in the middle, unisulcate especially toward the 

 base, slightly curved under the stigma ; stigma |- to ^ in. long, 

 obtuse and subclavate at the tip, somewhat furrowed, sometimes 

 gibbous at the base. 



Htjilla. — In the more open of the Monino forests, sporadic ; fl. end 

 of Feb. 1860. No. 1599. In the open mixed forests between LopoUo 

 and the Monino, in company with other forms of this or allied species ; 

 fl. Feb. 1860. A form with broader and glabrate leaves, probably of 

 this species. No. 1601. 



Nearly related to L. Welwitschii, but differs by the cottony margins 

 of the involucral scales and the less hirsute character of the intermediate 

 lobe of the perianth-lip. 



Welwitsoh thought that this tree might be Protea abyssinica Willd. , 

 the Abyssinian name of which is " Gunguedi " ; he noted that the 

 species, which is not rare in the mountainous part of the highland 

 plateau of Huilla, is not there known by this name. 



5. L. paludosuiu. 



Protea pc^Mdosa Welw. ex Engl., I.e., p. 196, name only. 



