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P L A T E CCCCIX.
PROTEA SCOLYMÜS.
Smooth-leaved Profea.
C L A S S IV. 0 R D E R I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA quadrifida sive quadripetala. Antherae
lineares insertae petaJis infra apicem.
Calyx proprius nullus. Nux unisperma
supera.
BLOSSOM four-deft or four-petaled. Tips
linear, inserted on the petals below the
apex. Empalement proper, none. Nut
one-seeded above.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
PROTEA, with lance-shaped acute smooth
leaves and a round terminal smooth head
of flowers.
PROTEA, foliis lanceolatis acutis capitvJoque
terminali rotundo glabris.
Protea Scolymus. IVilld. Sp. PI. 1. 522.—
Schrad. Serf. Hann. tal. 20.—Ait. Hort.
Kew. 1. 127.
LEUCODENDRON {Scolymocephalum) foliis lanceolatis, floribus subrotundis, caule fruticoso ramoso.
Linn. Sp. PL 2. 153.
LEPIDOCAKPODENDKON acaulon, ramis numerosis e terra excrescens, calyce floris immaturo extus e
rubro et flavo variegato, intus flavo. Boerh. Lugl. 1. p. 102. tal. 192.
SCOLYMOCEPHALUS africanus, fruticis aethiopici coniferi Breynii foliis, capite major! squamato.
Raj. H. 3. 10.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A floret detached.
2. A petal with its tip magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal.
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THE Protea Scolymus grows spontaneously on the Tiger mountain at the Cape of Good Hope ; but has
long been an inhabitant of European conservatories, although a rare one. It was well known to
several of the old botanists, who appear to have diflered much concerning the generical appellations which
they thought proper to bestow upon it ; as will appear on consulting the synonyms above. They made
.several genera of Proteae ; but the botanists of later times have melted them all down (we fear injudiciously)
into one great genus : and Schräder has even added Lambertia to Protea ; and figured it in his
Sertum Hannoverianum, under the name of Protea nectarina ; thereby alluding to the sweet juice
which abounds in the tubes of its flowers :—melliflua would have been a still more expressive term.
The smooth-leaved Protea requires the same treatment as the rest of the genus, and is a very fine species,
producing its flowers in May and June. Our figure was taken at tlie Claphara collection.
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