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P R O T E A CONIFERA.
Cone-hearing Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C O R O L L A 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
petalis infra ápices insertae. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
B L O S S O M four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER,
P H O T E A foliis acinaciformibus, glabris, callosis :
floribus in capitulis terminalibus, pallide
luteis : involucro patente, late lanceolato,
concolore.
P R O T E A witli scimitar-shaped leaves, smooth and
hard. Flowers grow in terminal heads of a
pale yellow colour: the involucrum is
spreading, broadly lance-shaped, and the
same colour as tlie blossoms.
REFERENCE TO THE PL.^TE.
1. A flower.
2. A chive magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
OUR figure represents part of a plant in the collection of G. Hibbert, esq. in the year 1S03, and the
smaller specimen a branch from the same plant in I8O7. So considerable a latitude of growth is certainly
deserving notice, as, upon a slight examination, they might easily be mistaken for distinct species.
In the first year of its inflorescence its appearance is uninteresting ; but in a year or two afterwards
it displays such an abundance of bloom, that it then becomes a very ornamental little shrub. It
is a Cape species, and requires no particular treatment more than what is common to the generality
of this extensive family.
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