PLATE CXXXI.
PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. Ferrtigino^o-p^crpzcrea.
Long-leaved Protea. Rusty-purpicjiower.
CLASS IV. 'order L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pomtal.
E S S E N T I A L GENEEIC CHARACTEE. ,
C O R O L L A 4-fida feu 4-petala. Antherse lineares,
infertse petalis infra apicem. Caljx prcprius
nullus. Semina folitaria.
BLOSSOM 4-cleft or four petals. Tips linear inferted
into the petals below tlie point. Cup
proper none. Seeds folitary.
See PKOTEA SPECIOSA. PI. XVII. Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Protea foliis fub-linearibus, " anguffis, obliquis,
rigidis, longiilimis; fquamis interioribus calycis
lanceolatis erectis; floram plumis ferruginofo
purpureis ; conus fubglobofus.
Protea with nearly linear leaves/narrow, oblique,
harili and very long; the inner fcales of the
cup are lance-fliaped and upright; the
plume of flowers are of a rusty-purple; the
cone nearly globe-fliaped.
- REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Bloflbm complete, with the feed-bud attached.
2. The Petals of the flower fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Tips
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit.
T H A T the attention of the fcientific and other colleftors and cultivators of exotics, in this kingdom,
may be brought to a better acquaintance, with tliis fine, very extended, yet much negleaed Genus •
the fpecies of which, now in Britain, amount to more than feventy, has been our chief aim, in endeavouring
to lay before them, figures of fome of the moft rare and beautiful; one of which we deem
the prefent.
This variety of Long-leaved Protea, is figured in Boerhaave's Index to the Leyden garden. Part 2.
p. 186, as one of his Lepidocarpodendrons, and has been given, byWilldenow in his Sp. plant. Tom. I.
p. 531. as a fynonira of P. fpeciofa, quoted from Thunberg's prod. 27. DilT. de Prot.
The culture and treatment of this plant, is the fame as P. fpeciofa, to which we refer our readers.
From a fine plant, in the Hibbertian colleaion, our drawing was taken in the month of July this
year. It was introduced to us from the Royal Gardens at Schonbrun in Germany, communicated by
the fuperintendant to Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, the feeds having been received from
the colledor for the Emperor, at the Cape.
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