P L A T E DXLIIL
P R O T E A SPECIOSA PATENS.
Spreading Showy Protea.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNLt Four Chives. One PoinCal.
ESSENTIAI, GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antliera lineares,
petalis infra ápices insertEe. Caljx
propriusj nullus. Semina solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleftj or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PROTEA foliis lanceoktisj imdulatis, pilosis :
squamis calycinis rotundato-ovatis, ixiarginibus
fimbriatis nigricantibus. Gaulis pa-
- tens.
Habitat in Caput Bonae Spei.
PKOTEA witli lance-shaped leaves, waved and
hairy. Scales of the empalenaent roundedly
oval, with fringed margins of a black brown
colour. Stem spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope,
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
THIS fine fringed Protea in the foliage is very nearly allied to the P. speclosa, but the flower is more
spread open than any of that section we have as yet seen. It is naturally so averse to grow upright, that
it is with difficulty prevented from bending downwards, which the branches always do till they are tied
up. In this particular it very much resembles the P. repens, and, if left at liberty, would no doubt,
like that species, creep or spread itself about on the earth. Our figure was made from a plant lately in
the conservatory of G. H. Hibbert, esq., but recently consigned to J. Knight, his botanic gardener,
who has commenced nurseiyman in the King's Koad, Chelsea, with the whole of that well known
valuable collection.