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Protea Cynaroides. Artichoke- 

 Flowered Protea. 

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Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



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



Anthera infertae petalis infra apicem. Sem. 1, fuperum, nudum. 



Specif c Character and Synonyms. 

 PROTEA cynaroides; foliis fubrotundis petiolatis g^bris. 



Thunb. Dtjf. 59. /W. 28. 

 PROTEA cynaroides ; flonbus folitariis radio calycino lan- 

 ceolato itricto, foliis fuborbiculatis petiolatis. 

 Linn, Mant. 190. Reich. 1. p. 263. 

 PROTEA cynaroides. Mant. 190. Bot. Repof. 288. 

 LEUCADENDRON cynaroides. Spec. PL 135. 

 LEUCADENDRON foliis fubrotundis patentiflimis petiolatis, 



foliolis calycinis carinatis. IVach. ult. 204. 

 LEPIDOCARPODENDRON folio fubrotundo rigido, in 

 pedunculo longo craflb, flore maximo purpureo. 

 Boerb. Lugd. 2. 184. (/. 189. vero ad hanc nequa- 

 quam pertinet. 



This is a very low fhrub, but in the fize of its flowers hardly 

 yields to any. Few if any of the Proteas are remarkable for 

 brilliancy of colouring, the beauty of the flowers arifing more 

 from their curious ftrufture and the variety of their parts 

 than from colour. 



We have feldom fo far deviated from our ufual plan as to 

 give double plates, but for the lake of fuch a representation of 

 fo magnificent a flower as the prefent we run no rifk of in- 

 curring blame. We have only to regret that the very low 

 price of the work will not admit of our giving the ufual number 

 of figures. The expence and trouble of this number are fully 

 equal to thqfe which contain eight ; and, were the labour of our 

 artifts adequately rewarded, would be confiderably greater. 



Our drawing was taken from a very fine fpecimen which 

 flowered laft Spring in the colle&ion of E. J. A. Woodford, 

 Efq. at Vauxhall. Another is at this time coming into flower 

 at Mr. Barr's, Ball's- Pond ( Iflington, which though of fmaller 

 fize promifes a greater intenfity of colour, which is probably 

 owing to the time of year admitting of a more free expoiure 

 to air, a circumftance generally known to heighten the colour 

 of flowers. Requires the protection of a greenhoule and the 

 fame culture as the reft of the genus. 



