PLATE DLXXXII.
PROTEA MELLIFERA ALBIFLORA.
White-ßoweied Honey-bearing Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER L
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae lineares,
petalis infra ápices insertse. 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 solitary.
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PROTBA foliis lanceolatis ellipticis : capituloque
terminali, magno, albo.
Habitat ad Caput Bonee Spei.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PROTEA with elliptic lance-shaped leaves : head
of flowers terminal, large, and white.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal.
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WHETHER 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 I8O7. 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, (the plant being near seven feet high,) it literally poured out a stream of nectareous
juice, the cup being filled with honey as high as the imbrications could possibly contain it.
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