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P L A T E CCCVII.
P R O T E A GLOBOSA.
Glohe-flowered Protea.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA iMONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTEK.
C O R O L L A 4 fida, feu 4-petala. Anthera lineares,
infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx
proprius nullus. Semina iblitaria.
BLOSSOM 4-cleft, or 4 petals. Tips linear, inferted
into the petals below the end. Cup
proper, none. Seeds folitary.
See PROT E A FORMOSA, PI . XVII. Vol.1.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Protea foliis eliptico-lanceolatis, apicibus callo-
1ÌS ; capitulo globofo, terminali j foliolis
calj-cinis ovatis, reflexis; floribus luteis.
Protea with eliptically-lance-lLaped leaves, callous
at the ends; head of flowers globular
and terminal; leaflets of the cup egg-fliaped,
turned back; flowers yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower complete, natural fize.
2. One of the Petals of a bloflfom, with its chive, magnified.
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, natural fize.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. The common Empalement.
T H I S fpecies of Protea, though it does not ftand among the foremoft of its congeners in competition
for beauty; yet, has its merits, and thofe of no fmall moment, as a hardy green-houfe plant; for it
rarely mifles flowering, in the month of May, annually, and its bloflbms continue in perfeftion at
leafl: two months. It is feldom hurt by cold or wet, if not expofed to either in the extreme. Is ealily
propagated from cuttings, made in the month of May, or June; by the fame mode as has been defcribed
for the increafing the preceding fpecies of the Genus, already figured in this work. We owe
the firft introduaion of this plant to Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who raifed it from
feeds, in the year 1/86, received from the Cape of Good Hope. Our figure was made from a plant
in the Hibbertian colleftion.
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