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Protea Speciosa. Splendid Protea* 



C/^/j- fl»(f Order. 

 Tetrandria Monocynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. 5*fida 3 feu 4-petala. Anthers lineares, infertae petalis 

 infra apicem. Cal. proprius o. Nux i-fperma, fupera. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



PROTEA fpeciofa ; capitulo oblongo, fquamis calycinis om- 

 nibus erectis obtufis : radii fpathulatis barbatis 

 apice incurvis, foliis ovatis* marginatis glabris. 



PROTEA fpeciofa ; floribus folitariis, radio calycino fpa- 

 thulato ferrugineo - barbato, foliis lanceolatis. 

 Mant. 191. 



PROT y£ A fpeciofa latifolia. Bat. Repof. 110. 



PROTEA fpeciofa. Gawler Recenf. 3 1 . 



This beautiful fpecies of Protea is very diftinft in every 

 part from Protea Lepidocarpon (No. 674) with which it has 

 been confounded by Willdenow as well as Thunberg. 

 *^e cannot venture to infert any of their fynonyms but that 

 of the Mantifla, all of them either belonging to Lepidocarpon 

 or being uncertain. 



The brilliancy of the flowers depends very much upon the 

 jnrubs being expofed to the air and light; fuch as bloom 

 late in the fummer, when they can be placed entirely in the 

 open air, if the weather prove favourable, are much redder 

 than thofe that open in the greenhoufe, in which the green 

 colour prevails over the red. 



The genus Protea, as it (lands in Willdenow, contains 

 * number of genera belonging to a large natural family, fome 

 of which have been diftinguifhed and accurately defined by 



Mr. 



