Tan, 7095. 
PROTEA: nana. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. ProreacE®.—Tribe Protera. - 
Genus Prorea, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 169.) 
Protea (Acrotephalx) nana; frutex glabra, bipedalis, ramosa, foliis confertis 
erecto-patentibus acicularibus .acutis acuminatisve, capitulis terminalibus 
nutantibus hemisphericis, squamis 3-4-seriatis appressis oblongis 
obtusis, exterioribus virescentibus sericeo-marginatis, intimis coccineis 
glaberrimis flores ciliatos longe super antibus, perianthii hirsutuli labio 
majore inlaminam spathulatam producto, minore filiformi apice cymbi- 
‘formi 3-denticulato, antheris sessilibus obtuse apiculatis, ovario hirsuto, 
stylo exserto glabro curvo, stigmate fusiformi. ; 
Protea nana, Thunb. Diss. Prot. p. 30; Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 180; Linn. Syst. 
Veg. Ed. 14, p. 1389; Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, vol. i. p. 192; Brown in 
Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. x. p. 87; Meissn. in DC. Prodr, vol. xiv. pars 1, 
p. 241. : ; 
P. rosacea, Linn. Mant. p. 189; Lamk. Jil. vol: i. p. 238 ; Eneyel. Bot. vol. v. 
p. 653; Smith Exot. Bot. vol. i. p. 85, t. 44. . ‘ ees 
P. acuifolia, Salisb. Parad. p. 2. 
Leycadendron nanum, Berg. in Act. Stockholm, 1766, p. 325; Plant. Cap. 
p. 22 (excel, syn. Petiv.). ; 
L. pinifolium, DC. mss. 
On the authority of Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis, Protea 
nana was introduced into England in 1787 by Francis 
Masson, a collector sent to South Africa from Kew; and 
it seems surprising that so attractive and striking a plant 
should have been lost to cultivation. In this respect it has 
‘shared the fate of a vast number of equally handsome or even 
handsomer species of Protea and its allies, not to mention 
other South African plants that ornamented the green- 
houses of our grandfathers. Of Protea itself, a genus 
containing upwards of sixty known species, about one- 
half have, previous to the first quarter of this century, 
been both: cultivated and figured in Europe, chiefly “im 
England, and thirteen of these in this’ Magazine. The 
dates of publication of the latter give a fair idea 
of the epochs during which their, cultivation was en-— 
couraged : thus, of the first thousand plates there were of 
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