P L A T E CCCCXCV.
P R O T E A CORYMBOSA.
Conjmbose-flowering Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNU. Four Chives. One Polntal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-pefala. Antherce linearesj
petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx
propriusj nullus. Semina solitarin.
BLOSSOM 4-clefr, or of 4 petals: tips linear, inserted
into the petals below the points. Cup
proper, none. Seeds solitary.
PBOTEA foliis teretibus, brevibus, obtusis, adscendentibus,
glaucis : floribus capitatis,
luteis, corymbosis.
Frutex pygmaeus, dumosus : ramis sub-verticillatis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PROTEA with round short leaves, blunt ended,
ascending, and glaucous: flowers headedyellow,
and growing in the manner of a
corymbus.
A dwarf shrub, bushy, with brandies nearly
whorled.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The involucrum of the flowers.
2. A flower with its bractea.
3. A chive magnified.
-1. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
THIS plant has been long known in the gardens by the title of Protea purpurea, but never flowered in
this country till last summer, at die nursery of Mr. Williams of Turn ham Green - when instead of
puri^le flowers, (as was expected fi-om its specific title,) they proved to be yellow. It bears so .rea
a resen^blance to the P. teretifolia, that when we figured that species (by comparing it with a L e d
native specimen,) we were almost inclined to think a sm.,11 variety of that plant was the P corym
bosa a tered m its manner of growth in this climate by a different mode of culture. But compaLn
with the hvinplants has now determined them to be distinct species, and left no doubt rcnLning
of this being the P. corymbosa figured by Thunberg in his Dissertation on the genus Protea