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P L A T E CCCCLXIX.
P R O T E A CORONATA.
Crown-Jlowered Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COEOLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Sem. solitaria.
SPECIFIC.
P R O T E A foliis lanceolatis, obliquis, transverse et
horizontaliter sitis, marginibus tomeutosis :
squamis calycinis superioribus spathulatis,
angustis, tomentosis, margine piloso^ incarnatis
: squarais infra lato-ovatis, tomentosis,
intus melliferis : caulis erectuSj
sesquipedalis.
B L O S S O M four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into tlie petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
C H A R A C T E R .
PEOTEA with lance-shaped oblique leaves standing
sideways in a horizontal direction, with
downy edges. The upper scales of the
empalement are spathula-shaped, narrow,
downy, with hairy edges, and flesh-coloured.
T h e scales b ene a t h are broadly ovate, downy,
and furnished witli honey on the inner side.
Stem upright, a foot and a half high.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1, A flower complete.
2. Seed-bnd and pointal.
T H I S Protea may be regarded as an intermediate character between the P. mellifera and that fine section
of Prolea called speciosa ; and certainly, in point of beauty, deserves to be ranked among that showy
division • but as the principal leading feature in the Speciosas exists in the powerflil feathery fringe
upon the edffes of the imbrication, and the present one possessing so very slight a characteristic of that
description we could not with propriety rank it amongst them. Its affinity to the P. mellifera is only
in the honey-beanng character of its flowers, which, like that species, contain a quantity of nectariferous
iuice The unoccupied term of coronata is adopted, from the resemblance Us imbrication bears
to the form of a crown, and which is more apparent in this species than in any other as )-et in cultivation
with us. Our figure was made from the Clapham collection.
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