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P L A T E DXVIL
PROTEA IMBRICATA.
Imhricated'leaved Pro tea.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-ficlíi, seu 4-petala. Antherse lineares,
petalis intra ápices insertae. Calyx
proprius, nuUus. Semina solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitaiy.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
PROTEA foliis imbricatis, lanceolatis, nervosis,
pilosis : iloribus terminalibus, confertim capitatis,
villosis.
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei.
Thunl. Diss. 45. t. 5. f . 2.
PKOTEA with imbricated leaves, lance-shaped,
nerved, and hairy : flowers terminal, in
crowded heads, and hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope,
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A leaf magnified.
2. An umbel of flowers.
3. A chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
THIS Cape species is described and figured by Thnnberg in his Dissertation on the genus Protea. It is
rather a tender plant, and flowers at first very sparingly ; which is the case with ahnost all this tribe
for the first year or two : after they are more familiarized to our climate they become much
more prolific. We have seen native specimens of this species abundant in flowers terminating every
branch. '
Our figure was made from a plant in the conservatory of G, Hibbert, esq. whose collection still contains
unrivalled the greatest number of new and beautiful species of Trotea.
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