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P L A T E CCCCLXI.
P R O T E A TERETIFOLIA.
Cylindric-leaved Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TErRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
ConoLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala, Antherse UneareSj
petalis infra apices inscrtae. Calyx
propriusj nullus. Sem. solitaria.
B L O S S OM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into tlie petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
P R O T E A teretifolia, foliis obtusis : junioribus
adscendentibus, senioribus patentibus : floribus
luteis, capitatis, terminalibus, foliis
circumsessis : post florescentiam conus forma
tur.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
P R O T E A with cylindrical leaves blunt-ended : tlie
younger ascending, and the older ones
spreading: flowers yellow, headed, terminal,
and surrounded by tlie leaves; and after
flowering a cone is formed.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
] . A flower.
3. A chive magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
4. Flower-branch of a small variety.
T H I S little Protea is more desirable, by way of contrast to those splendid imbricated species, tlian for
any beauty it possesses, and exhibits powerfully the great diversity of character annexed to this numerous
genus. Attached to the dissections is part of the branch of a minor variety, and which is by
some considered as specifically distinct : and were extension our object, it certainly might be made a
separate species, from the difference of its character after flowering, the larger one forming a cone the
size of an egg ; which the lesser one does not. Jt also differs in tlie manner of its growth ; but only
in the dried specimens which we have seen that have been collected from old plants at the Cape j
and in them the small variety forms its branches after the manner of a corymbus, and the plant has
thence received the appellation of corymbosa. But had we given a separate figure of it, we could
not (without making an awkward apology ) have adopted a specific title whose characteristic'appearance
It might never acquire in this climate, and which our figure would not have possessed. By placing it
amongst the variations these objections are obviated, and the appearance of repetition avoided : a desirable
object in a genus so extended as Protea ; and we shall take every opportunity of abbreviating as
much as possible the number of slight varieties, particularly when their attractions are not considerable.
Our drawing was made from plants in the Hibbertian collection.
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