PLATE CXXXm. 



PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. 



Fermgino4o -purpurea 



o?ig' leaved Pro tea. 



Rusty.purplejlower. 



CLASS 



ly 



ORDER 



I 



TETRANDRI^ MONOGYNIA. 



Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHAKACTER. 



CoKOLLA 4-fida feu 4-petala, Antherae lineares, 

 infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx prc- 

 prius nullus. Semlna folitaria. 



Blossom 4-cleft or four petals. Tips linear in- 

 ferted into the petals below the point. Cup 

 proper none. Seeds folitary. 

 See Photea sfeciosa. PI. XVII. Vol, I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis fub-llnearibus, anguflis, obliquis, 

 rigidisjongiffimisj fquarais interioribus ca. 

 lycis lanceolatis erectisj florum plumis fer- 

 ruginofo-purpureis; conus fubglobofus. 



Protea with nearly linear leaves, narrow, oblique, 

 harih and very longj the inner fcales of the 

 cup are lance-fliaped and upright; the 



cone nearly globe-ihaped. 



tire 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



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



I' I)"^ c^^'?' °^ ^^^ ^°'^'' ^P'^^^ ^P'"' ^° ^^P°^e tlie fituation of the Tips. 

 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 



That the attention of the fcientlfic and other colleftors and cultivators of exotics, in this kingdom, 

 may be brought to a better acquaintance, with this fine, very extended, yet much negleded Genu,; 

 Tl • T r 'I ;^ ""7 '" ^"*'^"' '"°"''' *° "^^^^ ^^^" ^^^^^ty, has been our chief aim, in endea- 



• This variety of Long-leaved Protea, is figured in Boerhaave's Index to the Leyden garden. Part 2. 

 p. 18D, asoneofhisLeDidocarnndpnHrnnc ar,^ i,. .■!,„»_ _•,_ , ,xr.,, , ...„".. ^ 



byWilldenow 



,, -o, y . ^* ^ ' ""^ ■-"->-" s'>''="j "y vvuiuenow m Ills Dp. piani. lora.i. 



p. 531 as a fynonim of P. fpeciofa, quoted from Thunberg's prod. 27. Diff. de Prot. 



Ihe culture and treatment of this plant, is the fame as P. fpeciofa, to which we refer our readers, 

 vear T w "' f T' '? '^^ "^bbertlan coUedion, our drawing was taken in the month of July this 

 fhe fane ^rr Tf^'^f n° "' ''''^ '^'' ^'^'^ ^^^'^^"^ '' Schonbma in Germany, communicated by 



the foUelr fn th V ^"" "^ "^'""'^^^ Hammerfmitl., the feeds having been deceived from 



uie collector ior the Emperor, at the Cane. 



V. 



