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PLATE DLXXII. 



PROTEA SALIGNA 



Willow-leaved Pro tea. 





CLASS IV. ORDER I 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. 



One Pointaf. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherx li- 

 Deares, petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx 

 proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria. 



Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- 

 near, inserted into the petals below the 

 points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Pkotea foliis obliquis, lanceolatis, pubescenti- 

 bus: capitulis oblongis, involucratis, ter- 



minalibus. 



magnitud 

 cumdato. 



terminant cum cono ovat< 

 i, involucro bicolori cir 



Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 





Protea with oblique, lance-shaped, hairy leaves : 

 heads of flowers oblong, involucrated, and 

 terminal. 



Female flowers terminate the branches with an 

 ovate cone about the size of a pea, sur- 

 rounded by a two-coloured involucrum. 



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Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A flower, one tip magnified. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



3. Section of a head of flowers from the female plant. 



4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. 



igna, in the Species Plantarum 



^r wTiT' 7 T ifiC! "! y diStiDCt iD " S f ° liage ' h0WeVer resembli "8 in °">" Particular! Finding, soon 

 Lmel, 2 , ma , 7 !' a fema ' e P ' ant '" fi " e b,oom < we ■■»• »»»ed a branch of it on .he 



describes the female specimen 



Willdenow. we have no 



troduced 



pea 



The 



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ade from plants 



