P L A T E CCLXXXIX.
P R O T E A CORDATA.
Heart-Jìiape-leaved Protea.
K CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA 3I0N0GYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C o r o l l a 4-fida, feu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
infertse petalis infra apicem. Calyx,
proprius, nullus. Semina folitaria.
Blossom four-deft or four petals. Tips linear,
inferted into the petals below the ends.
Cup, proper, none. Seeds folitary.
See P k o t e a fokmosa, PI. XVI I . Vol.1.
Protea foliis cordatis.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
II Protea with heart-iliaped leaves.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Floret before the petals have feparated, natural iize.
2. The fame, magnified, after the burfting of the petals.
2. The Pointal and Seed-bud, natural fize.
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T h e Heart-lhape-leaved Protea was introduced to Britain in the year 1792, from the Cape of Good
Hope, by Meifrs. Lee and Kennedy; at whofe nurfery it is now, this prefent month of March, 1803,
in flower for the firft time in this country. The plant is only found on the mountams of that part of
the Cape called Hottentots Holland; the flem, in its native ftate, laying on the ground, feldom more
than a foot in length, and the flowers proceeding from it near its bafe. It is rather delicate, fliould
be kept in a very airy part of the green-houfe, and planted in a light loamy foil. It is propagated by
cuttings, made in the month of April, and kept under a common hand-glafs, die pot being plunged
in a fhady border.
Of this Protea there is a good figure in Thunberg's Dijertatio de Protea, Upsal, quarto edition,
1781, Plate 5, fig. 1.