PLATE 



cm. 



PE 



A 



f 



7Ugra 



Black-Lowered Protea. 



CLASS 



IV. 



ORDER 



I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNU. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida, feu 4-petala, Antherae line- 

 ares, infertae petalis infra aplcera. Calyx 

 proprius, nullus. Sem. folitaria. 



I 



BlosSOM 4-cleft, or of 4 petals. Tips linear, 

 inferted into the petals below the points. 

 Cup proper, none. Seeds foHtary. 

 See Protea Formosa, VoLL Plate XVII. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea folus longis, Imeari-lanceolatis; fquamae If Protea with long leaves, between linear and 



calycinae interiores apice incurvatae^ bar- 

 batse, nigrae. 



lance-lhaped} the inner fcales of the em- 

 palement are turned inward at the end^ 

 bearded, and black. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 



1. A Bloflbm coniplete, as it flands in the Erapalement. 



2. The four Petals of the Flower thrown open, to Ihew the fituation and charaAer of the tips. 



canons and beautiful ftrufture of the 



-- «^ Lu LUC i-unuus ana oeauiiiui itmcture ot the empalement, (the flowers being nearly coulcch^^ 

 within it,) that this fpecles of Protea owes its fpecific title, and for which it is fo much admired. There 

 are different varieties of it, which are confideredby Thunberg, in hisDilT. de Prot. of 1781, as diftina 

 fpecies5 hnt which are certainly only varieties of one fiock : we have drawings of two of thefe, the one 

 flelh-coloured, the other white 5 and hope to be able to demonftrate as juft, our poftulatum, when the 



This nlant was firft introduced 



noyai i^ardens at Kew, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1 786, by Mr. F. MafTon : it flowers at a very 

 early age, and when the ftem is not more than two feet high, moftly from the centre or leading 

 branch of the plant. It is propagated by cuttings, which fhould be nut in about the end of May, 



three or fpur, at moft, in a 



good 



When 



and 



fn tL u '° '". '"^ f '''^ ^"^ P""^ ""^ '^^ greenhoufe. Thefe direftions 

 J«V 17P9, from a plant m the Hibbertian colleaion, Clapham-common. 



be 



month 



