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PLATE DXXIL
PROTEA ABROTANIFOLIA HIRTA.
Hairt/ Southernwood-leaved Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.'
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheras li- BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips lineares,
petalis infra apices insertse. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
near, inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary'.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PROTEA foliis bipinnatis, filiformibus, pilosis:
floribus ranios terminantibus in umbellis
confertis : pedunculis brevissimis : bracteis
erectis : corollis pallide carneis. Stigmata
nigra.
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei.
PROTEA with doubly-winged leaves, threadshaped,
and hairy. Flowers terminate the
branches in crowded umbels. Footstalks
very short. Floral leaves upright. Blossoms
of a pale flesh-colour. Summit of the
pointal black.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope;;
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower-prop.
2. The chives spread open.
3 . A chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
THIS hairy-leaved Protea resembles the P. abrotanifolia, PI. 512, but is upon examination very distinct.
The flowers are of a pale rose colour, but have a lively appearance from the contrasted blackness of
the stigma. It is a round bushy plant, flowering early in the autumn, requiring the same treatment as
the generality of those species wi th small divided leaves.
Our figure was made from a plant in the Hibberfian collection.
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