﻿PLATE DXLIII. 

 PROTEA SPECIOSA PATENS. 



Spreading Show?/ Protect. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-perala. Antheras li- || Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips Ii- 

 neares, petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx near, inserted into the petals below the 



proprius, nullus. Sernina solitaria. 1 1 points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 





lanceolatis, undulatis, pilosis : 

 squamis calycinis rotundato-ovatis, margi- 

 nibus fimbriatis nigricautibus. Caulis pa- 

 Habitat in Caput Bonae Spei. 



Protea with lance- shaped leaves, waved and 

 hairy. Scales of the empaleraent roundedly 

 oval, with fringed margins of a black brown 

 colour. Stem spreading. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower, one tip magnified. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



This fine fringed Protea in the foliage is very nearly allied to the P. speciosa, but the flower is more 

 spread open that, any of that section we have as yet seen. It is naturally so averse to grow upright, that 

 it is with difficulty prevented from bending downwards, which the branches always do till they are tied 

 up. In this particular it very much resembles the P. repens, and, if left at liberty, would no doubt, 

 like that species, creep or spread itself about on the earth. Our figure was made from a plant lately in 

 the conservatory of G. H. Hibbert, esq., but recently consigned to J. Knight, his botanic gardener, 

 I nurseryman in the King's Road, Chelsea, with the whole of that well known 



