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P R O T E A MUCRONIFOLIA.
Mucronate-Ieaved Protea.
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. CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Poiatal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
petalis infra ápices insertae. Calyx
propriuSj nullus. Semina solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PROTEA foliis lanceolatis, mucronatis, glaucis :
involucro imbricato, ad basin parvo, cnneato,
virescente ; superis lanceolatis, patentibus,
acutis, albis : floribus terniiualibus,
capitatis, carneis, petalis cohaerentibus.
PROTEA with lance-shaped, mucronate leaves o f ^
a glaucous green : the involucrum tiled,
small at the base, wedge-shaped, and
greenish : those on the upper part are lanceshaped,
spreading, pointed, and white :
flowers are terminal and headed, fleshcoloured,
with the petals adhering together.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open, one tip magnified.
2 . Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
AMONGST the smaller species of this extensive genus tlie Protea mucronifolia may be placed, but by no
means ranked among the least in beauty. It has been figured in the Paradisus Londinensis, and also
in the Botanical Magazine, and therefore in the botanical world may be no longer considered as new or
lare ; but having already figured so many of the most beautiful, we cannot think of excludino- any
-attractive or distinct species of this fine tribe of plants. °
Our figure was taken from a plant in the garden of G. Hibbert, esq.