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PLATE CCLXXXIX. “ 
Heart-/hape-leaved Protea. 
CLASS IV. ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
_Corotia 4- fida, feu 4-petala. Anthere line- Brossom four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, 
ares, infertz petalis infra apicem. Calyx, inferted into the petals below the ends. 
proprius, nullus. Semina folitaria. Cup, proper, none. Seeds folitary. 
See Prorza rormosa, Pl. XVII.’ Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Protea foliis cordatis. || Protea with heart-fhaped leaves. 
Sateen. cancel 
+ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. : 
1, A Floret before the petals have feparated, natural fize. 
2. The fame, magnified, after the burfting of the petals. 
2. The Pointal and Seed-bud, natural fize. 
Tue Heart-fhape-leaved Protea was introduced to Britain in the year 1792, from the Cape of Good . 
Hope, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy; at whofe nurfery it is now, this prefent month of March, 1803, 
in flower for the firft time in this country. The plant is only found on the mountains of that part of 
the Cape called Hottentots Holland; the flem, in its native ftate, laying on the ground, feldom more 
_ than a foot in length, and the flowers proceeding from it near its bafe. It is rather delicate, fhould 
- be kept in a very airy part of the green-houfe, and planted in a light loamy foil. It is propagated by 
cuttings, made in the month of April, and kept under 2 a common hand-glafs, the pot being plunged 
in a fhady border. 
cae Of this Protea there is a good figure in Thunberg’s Differtatio de Protea, Upsal, quarto edition, 
1781, Plate 5, fig. 1. 
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