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PROTEA LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWERED 
CREAM-COLOURED PRrRoOTEA. 
Class and Order. | 
- Terranpria Monoeyrnia. 
Cal. bipartibilis ineequalis, labii latioris laminis stamini- 
feris coherentibus. Stylus subulatus. Stigma angustius 
cylindraceum. Nux undique barbata, stylo_ persistenti 
caudata. Receptaculum commune, paleis abbreviatis per- 
sistentibus. Involucrum imbricatum, persistens. Br. 
Protea longiflora ; foliis ovato-oblongis sessilibus basi 
subcordatis simplicibusve, ramis tomentosis, invo- 
lucro sericeo-ciliatis, calycis aristis brevissimis, stylo 
glabro involucro longiore. Br. 
Prorea longiflora. Lam. Encycl. v. 5. p. 650. Br. in 
mee Tome, v. 10. p. 76. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. 
Pp. . Boks} 
Prorna lacticolor. _ Salish. Parad. 27.” 
Protea ochroleuca. Smith Exot. Bot. v.2. p. 43. t.81.? 
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Descr. The plant from which the annexed figure was 
en forms a small tree, seven to eight feet high, with rather 
few, downy branches, and numerous spreading, broadly- 
ovate, obtuse, slightly concave, waved, sessile leaves, some- 
times cordate at the base: scarcely veined, midrib strong at 
the base, slightly sericeo-pubescent, the margin tomentoso- 
Sericeous, reddish : the substance, especially of the older 
ones, thick and rigid : the colowr somewhat of a glabrous 
‘Sreen. Involucrum much longer than any of the ope oe 
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