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Protea Anemonifolia. Fork-Leaved 



Protea. 



C/<//> and Order. 



TeTRANDRIA MoNOCYNlA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo cohgerentibus). 

 rAnther<e inferte petalis infra apicem. San. 1. fuperum nudum. 



Specific Char after and Synonyms. 



PROTEA anemonifolia; foliis linearibus elongatis fupernefur- 

 cato-pinnatifidis : pinnis imis longioribus furcatis, 

 capitulo globofo terminali. 



Desc. Stem fhrubby, three feet high, villous. Leaves 

 fcattered, rigid, nerved, fmooth, ere£t, lengthened downwards 

 fo as to refemble a long footftalk, branched at the upper part 

 into about three pair ofpinnas, the lowermoft of which are 

 longeft and varioufly forked at the end : points all armed with. 

 a callous reddifh mucro or gland. Common Flower folitary, 

 globofe, feffile. Calycine Scales ovate-acuminate, very woolly 

 except the margin, compaclly imbricate, forming a globofe 

 cone fluffed with a fine white cottony fubftance. Corolla one- 

 petaled, tubed: tube longer than limb, which is four-cleft, 

 hairy, tortuofe. Anthers linear, 2-lobed feffile. Style ex- 

 ferted, club-fliaped. Stigma conical, acute ; the {tyleand ftigma 

 have a (ingular appearance in this fpecies fomething like two 

 cones with their bales applied together, but when the flower firft 

 opens, thefe parts are fo entirely covered with the pollen as to 

 appear four-fided. 



Correfponds 



