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PROTEA longifolia 

 Long-leaved Pr-otea. 



TETRANDRIA MOXOGYNL4 



PROTEJ. Suprdfol.QO. 



P. longifolia, foliis elongato-linearibus basi attenuatis, involucri turbi- 

 nati bracteis glabris acutis imbei bibus, corolla? aristis lamina longiori- 



bus, stylo pubescente apice curvato. Brown in linn. soc. transact. 

 10. 83. 



Protea longifolia. Andrezcss reposit. 132, 133, 144. Persoon. st/n. 1. 



1 16. Jlort. Kezc. ed. 2. 1. 190. 

 Protea vidua. Recens. pi. in reposit. botan. depict. 39. n. 129. 

 Protea Lepidocarpodendron. Herb. Linn. 

 ■Lepidocarpodendron, foliis angustis longis salignis nervo rubro; florum 



plumis violaceo-purpureis. Boerh. lugdb.2. 186; cum icone. 



Folia numerosa, patentissima, spathulato-ligidata, angusta, nuda, avenia, 

 papuhs minutissimis albidis (sub lentej densissime conspersa, sesuncialia v. 

 intra, 3-4 lineas lata, acumine obtaso. Bractea? exteriores involucri ovato- 

 lanceolatce, interiores lineari-lanceolatce. Corollae involucro cequales vel 

 nonninil longwres, hirsutius lanatce sed non dense, pilis in aristis atropur- 

 purascentibus. Stylus biuncialis, albo-villosus, subulato-attenuatns, com- 

 presso-teres, Jlexura brevi infra stigma. Stigma subulatum> acutum, glabrum, 

 nine basi nodo obliquo subsemicirculari protuberans. 



A species that may be known by its long narrow foliage 

 from all its nearest akin that are yet recorded. It is 

 more rare, and multiplied with greater difficulty, than the 

 pulchella of the twentieth article of "this work. The bloom 

 is less showy than in that, yet of considerable beauty, but 

 not so freely produced. We find no account of the size the 

 shrub acquires, and it is needless to speak from the single 

 specimen we have seen in a greenhouse, and of which we 

 knew not the age. What we have already said concerning 

 the treatment of pulchella in the article we have mentioned, 

 applies equally to the present species. 



Introduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope 

 in the year 1790. 



The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 



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