an ine | in length, the lamina smooth, spreading, entire, roundish, or 
PRO'TEA CYNAROIDES. 
ARTICHOKE-LIKE FLOWERED PROTEA. 
EXOGENZ OR DICOTYLEDONER, 
} ae Ba ose EY, 
this Plant ve} ; 
NATURAL ORDER, PROTEACA, 
MONOCHLAMYDA, AYA 9 eye: divisions 
OF . SNe which 
DECANDOLLE. —¥ this Plast belongs. 
i No, 166. > 
GE NUS. PROTEA: is nzus. Invotucrum imbricatum pol 2, 
N 
persistens, receptaculum multiflorum, paleis abbreviatis persisten tentibus- owns 
sum cingesn. Penicons0a bipartibile, inequale, labii latioris laminis tribus 
s. 
TETRANDRIA, 
" MONOGYNIA, 
OF LINNEUS, 
heer ren MIN qu a 
SquaMuLz quatuo 2 aie “Ovarium ese uniovulatum. Srrics 
subulatus; stigma augustius cylindraceum. Nux mo: mee undiq 
bata, stylo persistente caudata. ee 6 Samet etiam in inia 
‘ modo subacaules ; foliis integer 
itulis t termsinalibus vel rariu sla teralibus, rept Janiusculo ve 
conyexo, sepius glabro, nesbunanen paleis mnatis alveelato; invoh ( 
colorato, turbinato vel h ae sont Pp 
Enpuicuer: Genera Plantarum, p- 337. 
- $PECI ES. Protea CYNAROIDES Liwn. £US. Korps subrotandi petolt 
ned. SPRENG GEL. ‘ : es 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Protea. saavonsens indica 
many-leaved, persistent, surrounding th ceptacle, w h is 3 
flowered, and beset with aati Sonaied p aleze. ts =! 
ible into two portions, unequal, the three segments of the broader 
TAMEN : 
OVARY one-celled, 
: subulate ; stigma narrower, cylindrical. 
Not one-seeded, clothed dhGaghdert with beard-like hairs, and termi- 
nated by the persistent style, resembling a tail. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ‘Protea CYNAROIDES. A low 
shrub, ane stem being rarely two feet, erect, simple, wrinkled. Leaves 
., te, petiolate, petioles roundish, wrinkled, devoid of hairs, about — 
obscurely mucronate, shining. FLOweEr a terminal capitula, very large, 
of an ovate form, the numerous scales of the involucre progressively be- 
coming larger from the base to the summit, oblong, acute, all of them 
covered witha silky down, those near the base brownish, the upper ones - 
of a delicate pink, deeper on the inner side especially at the margins. 
ReEcEpPTACLE flattish. PeR1coN with a long tube, separable at the top 
into two lips, unequal, entirely clothed with a white down. STAMENS 
