TEATS CCOCKAAVHI. 
| PROTEA SPECIOSA. 
. eo. a Showy Protea. 
e - . “CLASS IV... ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
at . ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
: — ~e Conotta 4-fida, seu 4 petala. Anthere li- Biossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- 
ae Meares, petalis infra apices insertee. Calyx near, inserted into the petals below the 
x proprius, nullus. Sem. solitaria. points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
. ~~ Protea, foliis lanceolatis, obliquis, pilosis, un- Protea, with leaves lance-shaped, oblique, hairy, 
> ' dulatis: squamis calycinis superioribus, and waved: the upper scales of the em- 
lanceolatis, barbatis, luteo-albis; squamis palement are lance-shaped, bearded, and of 
infra lato-ovatis, tomentosis, barbatis, apice a yellowish white: the scales beneath are 
discoloratis : caulis erectus, tripedalis. broadly ovate, downy, bearded, and dis- 
coloured towards the ends. Stem erect, 
and three feet high. é 
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= “ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A blossom, the petals spread to show the situation of the chives. 
2. The seed-bud and pointal. 
- ‘Tats fine large Protea we believe is not at present in any other collection in Europe, but that of 
Tia 'G. Hibbert, esq. It is enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis under the name of Protea speciosa, but the 
_ Plant itself has been long lost to those gardens. Thunberg, in his dissertation on Protea, describes our 
plant exactly, under the appellation of speciosa: and, that no doubt might remain with respect to the | 
| Specific adopted, our figure has been compared with a remarkable fine specimen in the herbarium of 
“ A. B. Lambert, esq., sent by Dr. Roxburgh from the Cape of Good Hope under the title of “ Protea 
speciosa of Hottentot Island.” It is undoubtedly one of the grandest of this fine section of Protea ; 
- ae as a section of this numerous family it will always be better understood than it can possibly be asa 
_ discriminative specific. This extended tribe will, we think, admit of at least four or five partitions, but 
‘not Generic divisions, for we can by no means agree with those who think every slight variation of 
sufficient consequence to form new genera; and in this genus think it more objectionable than in any 
other. The title of Protea being derived from the God Proteus of ever-varying form, the more 
removed this tribe of plants are in their externa facie from each other, so much the better do they sup- 
_ port their mythologic title, 
