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PROTEA acerosa- 

 Pine-leaved Protect 



TETRAXDIUA MONOGYNIA, 



Mat* ord. Protem. Jitssieu gen. 78, Ufa. /. Semen nudum nut fVuetus 



monospermy. 

 Proteaceje. Broivn in trans, linn* soc. 10, 15, seqq* Div* I. 



Fructus clausus. 

 PROTEA. Supri vol. 3.fol. 208* 



Div. Flares Interfiles. 

 P. acerosa, floribus lateralibus, foliis subulatis, receptaeulo convex! usculo: 



paleis obtusis. Brown loc. cit. 95. 

 Protea acerosa. Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 1. I94«. 



CauKs brevis. Rami erectly glahrL Folia Icevuu Involucra rarnca, sub' 

 aggregate* breviter pcdunculata ; bracteis obtusis, interioribus pube diutius 

 pershtenti subsericeis. CaJyx muticus, apice bctrbato* ReceptacuH palecB 

 connata* Squamulte hypogynae subulata. 



Obs. Varietas? Foliis longioribus ( sesquiuncialibus ) scmiteretibus in 

 Herbaria el Hort. Z), Hibbert vidi, qttce secundum D. Niven. 3-4 pedes aha 

 in montosh solo Jertiliori lecta. Hcec Protea virgata. Andrews's reposit. 

 577* Brown loc, cit. 



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Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. 

 Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, in 1803. 

 Requires, like the rest of its congeners, to be cultivated in 

 bog-earth, with which a smaller proportion of hazel loam 

 has been mixed, and to be guarded from frost and damp in 

 an airy greenhouse. Blossoms from March to May. 



A low shrub. Stem short. Branches upright, smooth. 

 Leaves subulate, smooth. Flowers lateral. Involucres 

 growing with the branches, disposed in a kind of cluster, 

 shortly peduncled; bract es obtuse, inner ones somewhat 

 silkily furred with a pubescence that endures for some 

 time. Calyx awnless, bearded at the summit. Receptacle 

 somewhat convex: palece (the chaff-like membranes which 

 separate the group of florets within the involucre and 

 spring from the receptacle) obtuse, connate. Hypogynons 

 aquamulm (small scales below the florets) subulate (awl- 

 shaped). 



Mr. Brown saw in Mr. Hibbert's Herbarium a plant, 

 which he thinks likely to be a variety of the present, and 



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