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PLATE 



ex. 



PROTE A 



PE 



A, 



Broad-leaved Jhewy Protea. 



latifolia. 



CLASS 



lY. 



ORDER 



I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida^feu4petaIa. Antherae Imeares, 

 infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- 

 prius, nullus. Semina folitaria. 



Blossom 4-cleft, or of 4 petals. Tips linear, in- 

 ferted into, the petals below the ends. Cup, 

 proper, none. Seeds folitary. 

 See Protea formosa^ PI. XVII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis lanceolato-ovatisj fquamse calycinae 

 interiores barbatoe, apice incurvatae, incar- 

 natae. 



Protea with leaves between oval and lance- 

 fhaped; the inner fcales of the empalement 

 are bearded^, turned inward at the ends, and 

 fleili coloured- 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. x\ Bloflbm cooiplete^ as it ftands in the Empalement. 



2. The fame opened, to fliew the lituation of the Chives 



3. The Seed-bud and Pointal. 



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The drawing of this magnificent plant was made at the narfery of MefTrs. Grimwood and Wykes, 



"Kpnfintrtnn tKin rrpir ao^l.r t„ tU„ *U „r \ a. :„r„- — ^J U„ -\JT^ WTri-ps It was then 



Kenfington, this year, early in the month of Auguft; as we were informed by Mr. .. j-- 

 in flower for the firft time in England. In the year 1786 it was fent, in feeds, to the royal gardens, 

 Kew, by Mr. F. Maflbn, from the Cape of Good Hope; where certainly its beauty muft be great;^ as, 

 even there, amidft that world of beauties, it Ihould be honoured with fuch a fpecific title; in which, 

 confidering it as only a variety of our P. fpeciofa nigra, we entirely agree with Willdenow; where 

 the laft fynonim of that fpecies, copied by him in his Sp. PI. from Ray's Hiftoria Plantarum of 1719' 

 muft have been taken firom a plant of this variety. The treatment, and culture of this, and P. Spe- 

 ciofa nigra, are cxa& in everv thin?. 



