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PLATS COCEER. 
PR OTEA SCOLYMUS. 
Smooth-leaved Protea. 
CLASS IV. ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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Cororia quadrifida sive quadripetala. An- Biossom four-cleft or four-petaled. Tips 
ther lineares inserte petalis infra apicem. linear, inserted on the petals below the 
Calyx proprius nullus. Nux unisperma apex. Empalement proper, none. Nut 
supera. one-seeded above. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Prorza, foliis lanceolatis acutis capituloque Protea, with lance-shaped acute smooth 
terminali rotundo glabris, leaves and around terminal smooth head 
Protea Scolymus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 522.— of flowers, 
Schrad. Sert. Hann. tab, 20.—Ait. Hort. 
Kew. 1, 127. 
LevcopenpRon (Scolymocephalum) foliis lanceolatis, floribus subrotundis, caule fruticoso ramoso. 
i ome 153. 
LEPIDOCARPODENDRON acaulon, ramis numerosis e terra excrescens, calyce floris immaturo extus e 
rubro et flavo variegato, intus flavo. Boerh. Lugh. 2. p. 192. tab. 192. 
ScotymMocernatus africanus, fruticis zthiopici coniferi Breynii foliis, capite majori squamato, 
Raj. H. 3. 10. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, A floret detached. 
2. A petal with its tip magnified. 
3. The seed-bud and pointal. 
Tue Protea Scolymus grows spontaneously on the Tiger mountain at the Cape of Good Hope ; but has 
long been an inhabitant of European conservatories, although a rare one. It was well known to 
several of the old botanists, who appear to have differed 1 ; - 
] appellations which 
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~ they thought proper to bestow upon it ; as will appear on consulting the synonyms above. They made 
several genera of Protex ; but the botanists of later times have melted them all down (we fear injudi- 
ciously) into one great genus: and Schrader has even added Lambertia to Protea; and figured it in his 
Sertum Hannoverianum, under the name of Protea nectarina ; thereby alluding to the sweet juice 
which abounds in the tubes of its fowers :—moelliflua would have been a still more expressive term. 
The smooth-leaved Protea requires the same treatment as the rest of the genus, and is a very fine species, 
producing its flowers in May and June, Our figure was taken at the Clapham collection. 
