﻿PLATE DXLV. 



PROTEA ABROTANIFOLIA, odorata. 



Sweet-scented Southernwood-leaved Protect. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 >lla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae li- II Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips I 

 neares, petalis infra apices inserts;. Calyx near, inserted into the petals below tl 



proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria. points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary 



SPECIFIC 



Protea foliis multifidis, nliformibus, acutis, II Protea with many-cleft leaves, thread-sha; 



pilosis : floribus in capitulis terminalibus, pointed, and hairy : flowers grow in tei 



lucidis, odoratis. nal heads, shining, and sweet-scented. 



Habitat in Caput Bonae Spei. II Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower, one tip magnified. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal. 



This species of Protea well deserves a place in any collection, as, in addition t 

 appearance, it is possessed of a most agreeable fragrance. There is a variation of 



s light and graceful 

 vith white flowers, 



but exactly the same in every other particular. It remai 



many umbels of flowers are expanded at the same time. We have seen it in several collections. 



Cape species, and appears to be of easy culture. 



