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P L A T E DLXXII.
P R O T E A SALIGNA.
Willow-leaved Protea.
C L A S S IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointai.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-ficla, seu 4-petal3. Anthera linearesj
petalis infra apices inserta;. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li.
near, inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PKOTEA foliis obliquis, lanceolatis, pubescentibus
: capitulis oblongis, involucratis, terminalibus.
Feminei flores ramos terminant cum cono ovato
magnitudine pisi, involucro bicolori circumdato.
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spai.
PKOTEA with oblique, lance-shaped, hairy leaves:
heads of flowers oblong, involucrated, and
terminal.
Female flowers terminate the branches with an
ovate cone about the size of a pea, surrounded
by a two-coloured invojucrum.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope,
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
3. Section of a head of flowers from the female plant.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified.
PKOTEA saligna, in the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, is considered as only a variety of P. conifers
but is certainly specifically distinct in its foliage, however resembling in other particulars. Finding, soon
after we had made our drawing, a female plant in fine bloom, we have annexed a branch of it on the
same plate, to elucidate as much as possible the apparent confusion that at present seems to pervade this
section of the Genus Protea. The P. saligna of Thunberg, enumerated by WiUdenow, we have no
doubt, describes the female specimen we have represented, the cone being there mentioned as about
the size of a pea, and which exactly accords wi th our figure. The drawings were made from plants
introduced to this country from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1806, by G. Hibbert, esq.