PASS Lee” 
[ 1717 J ) 
PROTEA LATIFOLIA. RAYED-FLOWERED 
PROTEA. 
ERE AE EEE NO Be ae akele se ok ae ak shee 
Clafs and Order. 
Terranpria Monocyntia. 
Generic Charafter.—Vide No. 1713. 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. 
PROTEA latifolia ; foliis late-ovatis femicordatis feffilibus, in- 
volucro fericeo tomentofo ; bra€teis interioribus anguftatis.’ 
apice dilatato barbato, corolla tomentofa: ariftis hirfutis 
longitudine laminarum, ftylo pubefcenti. Brown in 7; ran/l. 
Linn, Sot. v. 10. p. 75. 
PROTEA radiata. Bot. Repof. 646. 
ERODENDRUM eximium. Salih. et Knight Prot. 41 2 
Our drawing of this beautiful fpecies of Protea was taken: 
at Mr. Knicut’s Exotic Nurfery, in the King’s-Road, Little 
Chelfea, in Auguft 1811. 
A variety, with greenifh white flowers, is cultivated at the 
-Hammerfmith Nurfery, Meffrs. Lrz and Kinnepy. 
The Proteas are much admired for the variety, fingularity, 
and frequently the {plendour of their flowers; the beauty of 
which confifts chiefly in the involucrum. 
Thefe plants have generally been confidered as very difficule 
of propagation, and not lefs fo of prefervation. But our mo- 
dern cultivators have arrived at a better mode of treatment 
than was known in the days of Purt1p Mixer. Mr. Joseru 
Knicut, in an Effay on the Cultivation of the Natural Order 
of Protez, has given very full dire€tions for their management ; 
and ftill more ample details may be found in the fecond edition 
of the Exotic Gardener, by J. Cusuinc, foreman to Mefirs. 
Lez and Kennepy. We are obliged for the following fatis- 
fa&tory 
