PLATE CCXCIV. 
PROTEA CANDICANS. 
Hoary-leaved Protea. 
7 eLAce 13. OR DER fT 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotxa 4-fida, feu 4-petala. Anthere li- Buiossom 4-cleft, or 4 petals. Tips linear, in- 
neares, inferte petalis infra apicem. Ca- ferted into the petals below the point. 
lyx proprius, nullus. Semina folitaria. Cup, proper, none. Seeds solitary 
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See Protea Formosa, Pl. XVII. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Protea foliis apicibus tridentatis, eliptico-lance- Protea. with leaves three-toothed at the ends, 
olatis, obliquis, candidiffimis ; capitulis eliptically-lance-fhaped, oblique and very 
_terminalibus; calyx imbricatus, fquamis hoary; heads of flowers terminal; cup tiled, 
acutis; corollis luteis. fcales pointed, bloffoms yellow. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
. A Floret, the petals feparated, natural fize. — 
. One of the Petals magnified. 
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, natural fize, the Summit detached, magnified. 
4. The Empalement, natural fize. 
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Our prefent plant is one of the rareft Proteas at this time in England ; as, we believe, there has never 
been but one importation of the feeds from the Cape, and no one species of this numerous genus is 
with more difficulty propagated by cuttings. Its lower leaves are apt to fuffer much from damps in 
winter; in confequence, the ftem becomes bare till near the top; the plant grows about three feet 
high, and flowers in Auguft, or September. Our figure was taken from the Hibbertian colleétion, 
where it flowered, in 1802, for the firft time in Britain. We owe its introdu@tion to Mefirs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammerfmith, about the year 17900. We have our doubts of this plant being the P. to- 
mentofa of Thunberg; for although he, in his defcription of that fpecies, comes nigh many of the 
characters of P. candicans, yet his determining the leaves to be linear, and downy, and our having 
drawings, taken from two other fpecies, approaching this in habit, yet nigher affined to P. tomentofa, 
we have retained his fpecific title for one of them, the other yet unnamed; which will both be given 
‘in due courfe. 
