sented from the cultivated plant. It was originally intro- 

 duced by Mr. Masson, in 1787, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



The sample of the present variety flowered last August in 

 the greenhouse of Messi-s. Colvill in the King's Road, 

 where it had been raised from Cape seed. 



Mr. Brown observes that the variety with linear oblong 

 leaves is not to be distinguished from the figure of the Abys- 

 sinian Protea (Protea ahyssinica) to be seen in Bruce's Tra^ 

 vels under the vernacular name Gaguedi. 



It comes the nearest to Protea Scoh/mus, and seems to 

 have received the specific title of grandtpora in reference to 

 that species, which is small-flowered for the genus, as several 

 others with much larger flowers are femiliar in our collec- 

 tions. 



