Zeitcaidendron] cxi. proteace^. 921 



above 5600 ft. of elevation ; fl. April 1860. No. 1597. Forming 

 little woods between Huilla and the Monino ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1869 and 

 Jan. 1860. Coll. Carp. 890. 



2. FAUEEA Harv. (1847) ; Welw. in Trans. Linn. See. xsvii. 

 p. 62 (1869) : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 170. 



Trichostachys Welw. Synopse ExpUc. p. 19. n. 46 (1862). 



1. F. saligna Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. p. 373. 

 -t. 15 (1847) ; Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 65 (1869) ; 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 195 (1892). 



HtriLLA. — A robust shrub, resembling a willow in habit, about 8 ft. 

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

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

 10 times as long as broad, acute, apiculate, attenuate at the base into 

 ihe petiole, coriaceous, somewhat hard and shining ; inflorescence 

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

 on a broad concave obtuse bract ; 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, distantly 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 the mixed Monino 

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

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

 E. guineensis, var. huillensis ; Welw. herb. no. 4403) and willows (cf. 

 Salix subserrata Willd. ; Welw. herb. nos. 6332, 6333), about Lopollo ; 

 fl. from Nov. to Feb. and again in April and May ; fr. May 1860 ; in 

 several places but nowhere abundant ; often mutilated by the flood 

 waters. No. 1592. A willow-like tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, with glaucous 

 foliage. Huilla ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. Coll. Carp. 891. 



Var. platyphylla Welw. ms. in herb. 



Leaves broader, 1 to 1|- in. broad; petioles shorter, j3j- to ^ in. long. 



Htjilla. — A small tree, 8 to 26 ft. high with rambling branches and 

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

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

 resembling those of a Loranthus. 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. 64 ; Engl., I.e. 



Huilla. — A shrub 6 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 ; hypogynous scales ovate-deltoid, acute. In mixed sandy 

 woods, composed chiefly of Gasalpiniem (of. Peltophorum africanum 

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



