yet shorter than the flowers, between cup-shaped and 
funnel-shaped, externally beautifully silky ; the lower part 
formed of cordato-ovate, closely imbricated, erect scales ; 
the upper scales, gradually longer, oblong, subspathulate, 
spreading, and beautifully margined, especially towards the 
int, with a delicate silky fringe ; their colour, too, is yel- 
owish white, the tips mostly brownish. Calyx four inches 
long, subulate, opening, from below, upwards, to three- 
fourths of its length, into two, unequal, silky, cream-colour- 
ed, waved, filiform segments, the upper part enclosing the 
stamens, entire, forming a vagina or green sheath around 
the style, tipped with a silky pencil of hairs. The calyces 
(or Perianths), sixty to seventy in number, collectively 
form a cup-shaped ray ofa single series, and exhibit a most 
beautiful appearance. Germen with a brown, silky fringe. 
Style filiform, brownish on one side, quite glabrous. Stigma 
a little inclined, subulate, very slender, obtuse. 
From the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
where it bears its fine blossoms, of that beautiful cream- 
coloured white which we see in the flowers of the Mac- 
noua, in November. If the figure of Sir James Smrru, in 
Exotic Botany, referred to by Mr. Brown, be the same (and 
it differs materially in the relative length of the flowers 
with the involucre, in the radiated tip to the calyces, and 
acute leaves) then it was, probably, introduced to this 
_ country by Mr. Hiszerr. Mr. Brown mentions it as ex- 
isting in the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1809. 
Probably too, it is the species alluded to by Dr. Sims, at 
t. 1717, of the Old Series of this Magazine, under Protea 
latifolia, as “‘ a variety of that species, with greenish-white 
flowers,” which was cultivated in the Hammersmith nur- 
sery. That species, indeed, (P. latifolia) has very much 
the habit of the present plant, scarcely differing but in the 
rose-coloured flowers and the sericeous style. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Upper portion of the Calyx laid open, to shew the 
Stamens. 3. Stigma.—Magnified. a Gey 
