PROTEA 



PLATE DLXXXII. 



MELLIFERA ALBIFLORA 



White-flowered Honey-bearing Protect 



CLASS IV, ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointed. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 neares, petalis infra apices insert®. 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. 



ids : capituloqi 



magno, albo 



Caput Bonae 



i 



Protea. with elliptic lance-shaped leaves : head 



of flowers terminal, large, and white. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hone. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



I, Seed-bud, chives, and pointal. 



species 



figu 



thumbed 



equivocal 



cific title of mellifera we unawares experienced, as, in bending the plant a little forward to view the 

 interior of its flowers, (the plant being near seven feet high,) it literally poured out a stream of necta- 

 reous juice, the cup being filled with honey as high as the imbrications could possibly contain it. 



