﻿PLATE DXIJ. 



P ROTE A CONIFERA. 



Cone-bearing Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRU MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida sen 4-petala. Anther* 1i- 11 Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips 



neares, petal, s mfra apices insert*. Calyx near , inserted into the petals below t 



propnus, nullus. Seumu loUtaria. Doints rwj ^ne petals below t 



N points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pbotba foliis acinaciformibus, glabris, callosis • I P BflTBA , - t u • v u j . 



fl •■ • ... 5 -, gnosis. PaoTEA with scinntar-shaped leaves, smooth: 



flonbus ,n cap,tuhs terminalibus, pallide hard. Flowers grow i 



luteis : mvolucro patente, late lanceolaf 



spreading, broadly lance-shaped, 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower. 



2. A chive magnified. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



<*. ngure represent, part of a plant in the collection of G. Hibbert, es q . in the year !303, and the 



ci~ t! A. '? ! tlCe ' **' UP ° n 3 Slight exarrin3tion > they might easily be mistaken for distinct spe- 

 -rds d , " 7 ° f lU infl ° reSCenCe ^ ^^^ » Uni — ing , but in a year or two after- 

 such an abundance of bloom, that itthenbecomesaveryornamentallittleshrub. It 

 treatment more than what is common to the generality 



h ana requires no partic 



