﻿PLATE CCCCXCV. 



PRO TEA CORYMBOSA. 



Corymbose-flowering Protect, 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 



TETRANDRL4 MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One PointaL 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 4-petala. Anther* li- ,| Biossom 4 -deft, or of 4 petals: tips ]ir 



Corolla 4-fida 



proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria 



C,!y 



SPECIFIC 

 Protea foliis teretibus, brevibus, obtusis, H- 

 scendentibus, glaucis : floribus capitat 



spygmaeus, dumosus: 



serted into the petals below ihe points. Cup- 

 proper, none. Seeds solitary. 



ith round short leaves, blunt ended, 



ing, and glaucous: flowers headed, 



-How, and growing in the manner of a 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The involucrum of the flowers. 



2. A flower with its bractea. 



3 . A chive magnified. 



4. Seed-bud and pointal,. summit magnified.. 



Tax. plant has been long known in the gardens by the title of Protea purpurea, but never flowered in 

 th, country tdl last sunuuer, at the nursery of Mr. Wil,i ams of T JJ m G een Xn 1st ,d 



. r. leretuolia, that when we figured that species (by comparine it with a dried 



na.,ves F c, ra en,) we were almost indined to think a sn.aU variety of h , plant wa, the P roZ- 

 bosaatered.nusnrannerof growth in this climate by adherent mode ofi coltnre Bu, co m Z« 

 with the living plants has now determined them to be distirct sneriP, «,,, \ a f, a u • • 



or ,,s being theP.corymhosa figured by T^^^^^^^tSZ^""* 



