PLATE CCCCXLII. 
PROTEA PULCHELLA, Var. speciosa. 
Waved-leaved Protea, Speciosa Ve ariety. 
CLASS IV. ORDER I. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotia 4-fida, seu 4 petala. Anthere lineares, 
petalis infra apices inserte. Calyx pro- 
prius, nullus. Sem, solitaria, 
Btassom four-cleft, or four petals. Tips linear, 
inserted into the petals below the points. 
Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Protea, foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, rabro Protea, with lance-shaped leaves, waved, mar- 
marginatis, pilosis ; squamis calycis tricolo- gined with red, and hairy; scales of the 
ratis; capitulo-erecto, terminali: caule ra- cup three-coloured: flower-head upright, 
moso, bipedali, ; PS ~ and terminal: stem branching, and two feet 
high, 
AR 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
i, The empalement and chives. 
2, Seed-bud and pointal. 
A — 
Our figure represents so evident a variation of the Protea pulchella, that it probably should be only 
regarded as a fine large flowering variety ; but as it exhibits a strong affinity in the flowers to that fine 
section of Protea called Speciosa, it is certainly better to denominate it a variety of that species, than 
to adhere too closely to the appellation of its original, whose specific is of too indiscriminative a cha- 
racter to be adopted any further than the acceptation of it already may have rendered necessary. The 
only method to avoid confusion in this extended varying tribe in future, will be to make as few species 
as possible in addition to those already made, unless they can be founded upon somé apparent leading 
feature in the plant. Our drawing was made from the Hibbertian collection, 
