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PLATE DLXXXII.
PROTEA MELLIFERA ALBIFLORA.
White-flowered Honey-bearing Trotea.
CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERI C CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
petalis infra ápices insertae. Calyx
proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear,
inserted into the petals below the
points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitaiy.
PROTEA foliis lanceoktis ellipticis : capituloque
terminali, magno, albo.
Habitat ad Caput Bonee Spei.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
PROTEA with elliptic lance-shaped leaves : head
of flowers terminal, large, and white.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal.
W H E T H E R we consider this Protea as a species, or only a variety, it well deserves a representation.
The only plant we have ever seen of it, and from whence our figure was taken, was in the collection
of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, in the year 18O7. Its unequivocal claim to the specific
title of mellifera we unawares experienced, as, in bending the plant a little forward to view the
interior of its flowers, (tlie plant being near seven feet high,) it literally poured out a siream of nectareous
juice, the cup being filled with honey as high as the imbrications could possibly contain it.
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