PLATE CX. 



PROTEA SPECIOSA, latifolia. 



Broad-leaved JJiewy Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-lida, leu 4 petala. Antheroe lineares, 

 infertse petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- 

 prius, nullus. Semina lblitaria. 



Blossom 4-cleft, or of 4 petals. Tips linear, in- 

 ferted into the petals below the ends. Cup,, 

 proper, none. Seeds folitary. 

 See Protea Formosa, PI. XVII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis lanceolato-ovatis; fquamae calycinx- 

 interiores barbatoe, apice incurvatoe, incar- 

 natae. 



Protea with leaves between oval and lance- 

 fhaped; the inner fcales of the ernpalement 

 are bearded, turned inward at the aids., and 

 flelh coloured. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Bloffom complete, as it (lands in the Ernpalement. 



2. The fame opened, to fliew the fituation of the Chives. 



3. The Seed-bud and Pointal. 





The drawing of this magnificent plant was made at the nurfery of Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes, 

 Kenfington, this year, early in the month of Auguftj as we were informed by Mr. Wykes it was then 

 in flower for the firit time in England. In the year 1/86 it was fent, in feeds, to the royal gardens, 

 Kew, by Mr. F. Maffon, from the Cape of Good Hope; where certainly its beauty muft be great; as, 

 even there, amidft that world of beauties, it fhould be honoured with fuch a fpecific title; in which, 

 confidering it as only a variety of our P. fpeciofa nigra, we entirely agree with Willdenow; where 

 the laft fynonim of that fpecies, copied by him in his Sp. PI. from Ray's Hiftoria Plantarum of \~\Q, 

 muft have been taken from a plant of this variety. The treatment, and culture of this, and P. Spe- 

 ciofa nigra, are exaft in every thing. 



