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Protea Corpiroutia. HeEART-LEAVED 
} PROTEA.. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
TreTranpria Monocynia. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cor. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo cohzrentibus). 
Anthere inferte petalis infra apicem. Sem. 1, fuperum, — 
nudum, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
PROTEA cordata; foliis cordatis. Thunb. Diff. n. 60. ft. oe 
J. 1. Willd. Sp. Pl. t. 535. Murr. Syft. Veg. 142. 
Gmelin, Syft. Nat. 225. Bot. Repof. t.'289. 
This beautiful dwarf fpecies of Protea flowered the beginning 
of Jaft March at Mr. Wooprorp’s, Vauxhall, as we fuppofed, 
for the firft time in Europe; but, fince our engraving was pre- 
pared for publication, we learn from a figure in the Botanical 
Repofitory, that a fimilar plant has alfo flowered this feafon - 
at Mefirs. Lez and Kennepy’s Nurfery at Hammerfmith. 
Stalks always of a bright red colour, not branched except 
very near the root, flexuofe, from a {pan to a foot long. 
Leaves alternate, heart-fhaped, of a pale glaucous green colour, 
quite entire, with a red cartilaginous margin. Stipula three 
or four, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Flower feffile, very near 
the root: fcales of the calyx or involucrum imbricate, oblong- 
ovate, obtufe, of a purplifh red colour, very bright in the fun- 
fhine, with a feariofe margin. Florets crowded on a flat re- 
- Ceptacle: claws of the petal chaffy, diaphanous, three of them 
_ united and one diftin@. The three concave fegments of the 
limb of the coalefced petals enclofe three of the linear anthers 
in fuch a manner as exaétly to reprefent a large -bilocular 
anther; fo that to a fuperficial obferver the floret would appear 
to be diandrous, having one large and one flender anther, the 
latter ftanding confiderably above the former from the greater 
length of the folitary petal. The germ is furrounded by a dull- | 
purple coloured pappus. * . 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, firft difcovered by 
Tuunsere in the mountains of Hottentot’s Holland and near 
the river Zonder-End. Should be kept in a very airy partof 
the greenhoufe and planted in a loamty foil. May be propagated 
