PLATE CCCCLXIX. 
PROTEA CORONATA. 
Crown-flowered Protea. 
CLASSIV: ORDER I. 
TE TRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotxa 4-fida, seu 4-petala, Anthere li- Biossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- 
neares, petalis infra apices inserte. Calyx near, inserted into the petals below the 
proprius, nullus, Sem. solitaria, points, Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Protea with lance-shaped oblique leaves stand- 
ing sideways in a horizontal direction, with 
downy edges. The upper scales of the 
Protea foliis lanceolatis, obliquis, transverse et 
horizontaliter sitis, marginibus tomentosis : 
squamis calycinis superioribus spathulatis, 
angustis, tomentosis, margine piloso, in- 
carnatis: squamis infra lato-ovatis, to- 
mentosis, intus melliferis: caulis erec- 
empalement are spathula-shaped, narrow, 
downy, with hairy edges, and flesh-coloured. 
The scales beneath are broadly ovate, downy, 
tus, sesquipedalis. and furnished with honey on the inner side. 
Stem upright, a foot and a half high. 
SERENE 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A flower complete. 
2. Seed-bud and pointal. 
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Tuts Protea may be regarded as an intermediate character between the P. mellifera and that fine wees 
of Protea called speciosa ; and certainly, in point of beauty, deserves to be ranked among that poe 
division: but as the leading feature in the Speciosas exists in the powerful feathery ye 
n the edges of the imbrication, and t present one possessing so very slight a characteristic O al 
_ description, we could not with propriety rank it amongst them. Its affinity to the P. mellifera 's me 
in the honey-bearing character of its flowers, which, like that species, contain a quantity of pagent 
ferous juice. The unoccupied term of coronata is adopted, from the resemblance its ae a 
form of a crown, and which is more apparent in this species than in any other as yet In 
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tion with us. Our figure was made from the Clapham collection, 
