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PLATE CCCCXLII.
P R 0 T E A P U L C H E L L A, speciosa.
Waved-leaved Protea, Speciosa Variety.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Polntal.
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E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4petala. Antherse lineares,
petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx proprius,
nullus. Sem. solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, or four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the points,
Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
PROTEA, foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, rubro
marginatis, pilosis ; squamis calycis tricoloratis;
capitulo-erecto, terminali: caule ramoso,
bipedali.
PROTEA, with lance-shaped leaves, waved, margined
with red, and hairy; scales of the
cup three-coloured: flower-head upright,
and terminal: stem branching, and two feet
high.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement and chives.
2. Seed-bud and pointal.
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OUR figure represents so evident a variation of the Protea pulchella, that it probably should be only
regarded as a fine large flowering variety; but as it exhibits a strong affinity in the flowers to that fine
section of Protea called Speciosa, it is certainly better to denominate it a variety of that species, than
to adliere too closely to the appellation of its original, whose specific is of too indiscaminative a character
to be adopted any further than the acceptation of it already may have rendered necessary. The
only method to avoid confiision in this extended varying tribe in future, will be to make as few species
as possible in addition to those already made, unless they can be founded upon some apparent leading
feature in tlie plant. Our drawing was made from the Hibbertian collection.
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