P L A T E CCXCIV.
P R O T E A CANDICANS.
Hoary-leaved Protea.
C L A S S lY. ORDER L
l^ETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTEK.
COROLLA 4-fìda, feu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
¡nfertas petalis infra apicem. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Semina Iblitaria.
BLOSSOM 4-cleft, or 4 petals. Tips linear, inferted
into the petals below the point.
Cup, proper, none. Seeds solitary.
S e e PROTEA FORMOSA, PI. X V I I . Vol . I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Protea foliis apicibus tridentatis, eliptlco-lanceolatis,
obliquis, candidiffimis ; capitulis
terminalibus; calyx imbricatus, fquamis
acutis; corollis luteis.
Protea with leaves three-toothed at the ends,
eliptically-lance-ihaped, oblique and very
hoary; heads of flowers terminal ; cup tiled,
fcales pointed, bloffoms yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Floret, the petals feparated, natural iize.
2. One of the Petals magnified.
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, natural fize, the Summit detaehed, magnified.
4 . The Empalement, natural fize.
OuK prefent plant is one of the rarett Proteas at this time in England; as, we believe, there has never
been but one importation of the feeds from the Cape, and no one species of this numerous genus is
w i t h more difficulty propagated by cuttings. Its lower leaves are apt to fuffer much from damps in
winter; in confequence, the item becomes bare till near the top; the plant grows about three feet
high, and flowers in Auguft, or September. Our figure was taken from the Hibbertian colleaion,
where it flowered, in 1802, for the firft t ime in Britain. We owe its introduftion to MeflTrs. Lee and
Kennedy, Hammerfmith, about the year 179O. We have our doubts of this plant being the P. tomentofa
of Thunberg; for although he, in his defcription of that fpecies, comes nigh many of the
charailers of P. candicans, yet his determining the leaves to be linear, and down)', and our having
drawings, taken from two other fpecies, approaching this in habit, yet nigher affined to P. tomentofa,
we have retained his fpecific title for one of them, the other yet unnamed; which will both be given
in due courfe.