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Plate 34. 



A. Faurea Galpinii Phillips [Tribe Proteeae] I. Flowering twig. 2. Diagram of 

 flower. 3. Achene. From the Zoutpansberg. 



B. Brabeium stellatifolium L. [Tribe Persoonieae] 1. Piece of flowering twig 

 with visiting beetle (Lycus spec). 2. Diagram, indicating the two pendulous ovules. 

 3. Bud, just opening. 7/1. 4. Flower, open, showing the free stamens, the upper part 

 of the style being cut away. 5. Stamens and pistil with nectariferous cup, the perianth cut 

 away, the disc shining through the filament of the anterior stamen. 7/1. 6. Ovary and 

 disc, long, section, the ovules entire. 15/1. 7. Bunch of ripe fruits. 8. Transverse 

 section of fruit. 9. Embryo. 



Faurea. 



This genus includes the only really large trees of the family in South 

 Africa, and it is the only genus of African Proteaceae which has its head- 

 quarters outside the Cape region, viz. Trop. Africa. Of the 14 species known 

 up to the present, one only occurs in the Cape Colony and even there not in 

 the Cape region as such, but in the forests of the Knysna. This species, 

 described as F. arborea* in Sim's Forest Flora, and now called F. Macnaughtonii, 

 is restricted to one district (Gouna), where the total number of trees has been 

 estimated by Mr Collin McNaughton to be about 30,000. 



Three other species occur in the Transvaal, viz. Faurea Galpinii (in the 

 Zoutpansberg district), F. saligna, a fine tree with a wide range from Warmbad 

 right on to the Matopos and perhaps beyond, and F. speciosa, a tropical species. 

 (Fig. 76, E.) For illustration of F. saligna see Vol. 11, Fig. of Parinarium 

 Mo bo la. 



The wood of several species of Faurea is beautifully grained and known 

 among the colonists as terblanz or Transvaal beukenhout. The flowers are 

 ornithophilous. 



In naming this genus from specimens collected by Burke and Zeyher 

 near the Magaliesbergen Harvey writes : 



" I bestow the generic name as an affectionate tribute to the memory of 

 my lamented friend W. C. Faure Esq., son of the Rev. A. Faure, senior 

 minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Capetown, a young man of much 

 promise, and a most ardent botanist, whose death occurred under peculiarly 

 trying circumstances. He was an officer and fell ill with cholera shortly after 

 coming to India, but recovered. When trying to join his regiment and passing 

 through a difficult part of the country, he was shot by some unknown person 

 concealed in the bush. 1844." 



Brabeium. 

 This genus, with its solitary species, is the only member of the family 

 in Africa which does not belong to the tribe Proteeae, being the only African 

 representative of the tribe Persoonieae, which, on the other hand, are 

 numerous in Australia. 



* The name F. arborea had been previously given by Engler to an East African 

 species. 



