PLATE CCCXXXVII. 
“PREOTEA TRITERNATA. 
Clufier-headed Protea. 
CLASS. AVA ORDER -L 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
‘ _ ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
CoroLia quadrifida feu quadripetala, An- Bossom four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, 
therz lineares, inferte petalis infra apicem. inferted into the petals below the point. 
Calyx proprius nullus. Empalement proper, none. 
Semina folitaria, Szeps folitary, ts akg 
See Prorga Formosa, Pl. XVII. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. | Bets 
Protea foliis bipinnatis, brevibus, filiformibus, Protea with doubly winged leaves, fhort, thread- 
‘ confertis, glabris; floribus terminalibus, fhaped, crowded and fmooth; flowers ter- 
umbellatis; pedunculis bracteis, capitulis _© minate the branches in umbels; fruit-flalks 
Jongioribus; fquamis calycinis fubulatis, — with floral Jeaves, and longer than the fmall _ 
hirtis. = heads; fcales of the cup awl-fhaped and AS 
hairy. Ot ae ep. s 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. i 
1. A Leaf. 1% 
2. A Flower. — 
3. One of the Petals of the flower, magnified. . on 
4. The Seedbud, Shaft and Summit, the Summit detached, magnified. 
5. The common Cup of one of the {mall heads of flowers. 
Tuts beautiful divided leaved Protea has been named, as above, by Thunberg, in his pice 2 = 
Protea, n.7, and in bis Prodromus plantarum capenfium 25, It is rather a delicate plant, and fhe ye 
jet to lofe the lower leaves from the ftem, which takes fomething from the beauty of it’s babit. Pik, a 
young leaves, when they firft appear, have a downy character, which difappears ab they on nits 
The ftem has likewife, in its young ftate, a tendency to downinefs, which is not difcovered of than” : 
old wood; and is, where the leaves are extant, quite covered by them. It grows to the height 2 plant ha 4 
feet, is propagated by cuttings, and flowers in the month of July. Our figure was taken from @ P w  | 
___ in the Hibbertian Colleétion, which was raifed from Cape feeds in 1800, fent from thence by 
