PLATE CXXXir. 



PROTEA LONGIFOLIA.- Mgra 



Long4eaved Protea. 



BlacTiJloiver. 



CLASSiy. ORDER 



I. 



TETRANDRTJ MONOGYNIJl. 



Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla ^-fidafeu -1-petala. Antherae lineares, 

 infertse pelal'is Infra apicem. Calyx pro- 

 prius nullus. Semina folitaria. 



BlossoxM 4-cleft or 4 petals. Tips linear, in- 

 ferted into the petals below the point. Cup 

 . proper^ none. Seeds folitaiy. 



See Pkotea FORMOSA, PI. :LY11. Vol I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis fublincarlbus, anguftiSj obliquis, ri- 

 gidis, longiliimis; fquamis interioribus, ca- 

 lycis lanceolatis, eredtis ; florum plumis 

 atro-purpureis. 



Protea with leaves nearly linear, narrow, oblique, 

 harfh and very long; the inner fcales of 

 the cup are lance-fliaped and upright; the 

 plume of flowers of a black-purple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Bloflbm complete, with the feed-bud attached. 



2. The Petals of the flower opened, to fhew the fituation of the Tips. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 



drawings 



^ i > " -^"v- ^a^K^ ui vjuuu nope, or wnicn we nave drawings oi luicc rani- 



ties, IS as yet, veiy fcarce in this kingdom. The variety here figured, as well as the others of this 

 fpecies, have been hitherto confidered as varieties of P. fpeciofa; with which, however, they have 

 lefs connexion, tlian with P. mellifera; but from both they ftand quite diftina. Wherefore, we 

 have given them the fpecific title of longifolia, from the extreme length of their leaves, which are 

 confiderably longer, than could be exprefTed in the figure. We believe this is the firtt year it has 



colle6Uon 



was made m November. It is fnoft difficult, or indeed almoft impraaicable, to increafe it, as it 

 puts^out no fide llioots, and certainly damps off, if laid down, where it touches the earth. 



""""^ "^""-''aave's having arranged this fpecies of Protea, (See his Itrdex to the Leyden Garden 



From Boerl 



after fg 



our P. mellifera ; 



C7J/ "x". ijid *^t^iuu(.di puuenarons, aiierjig. is/, wnicii is uui x, i"v" / 



Willdcnow has been led into an error; fince he has given this plant, the 188 Fig. of Boerhaave, as 

 a fynonira to P. fpeciofa, which ought not to be fo taken, unlefs we under ftand, that he meant all 

 his Lepidocarpodcndrons as only varieties of each other^ the principal difl:inguifliing feature, in P. 

 Ipecioia, being the incurved and fringed charader, of the inner fcales of the erapalement. ' 



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