PLATE CXXXIII. 



PROTEA LONGIFOLIA. Ferruginojo-purpurea. 



hong-leaved P rote a. Rusty-purpkjiouer, 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



Corolla 4-fida feu 4-petala. Anthers; lineares, 

 inlertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx prc- 

 prius nullus. Semina folitaria. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Blossom 4-cleft or four petals. Tips linear in- 

 ferted into the petals below the point. Cup 

 proper none. Seeds folitary. 

 See Pkotba speciosa. PI. XVII. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis fub-linearibus, anguftis, obliquis, 

 rigidis, longifiimis; fquamis interioribus ca- 

 lycis lanceolatis erectis; florum plumis fer- 

 ruginolb-purpureis; conus fubglobofus. 



Protea with nearly linear leaves/narrow, oblique, 

 harfh and very long; the inner fcales of the 

 cup are lance-fhaped and upright; the 

 plume of flowers are of a rusty-purple; the 

 cone nearly globe-fhaped. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Bloflbm complete, with the feed-bud attached. 



2. The Petals of the flower fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Tip:.. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. 



That the attention of the fcientific and other collectors and cultivators of exotics, in this kingdom, 

 may be brought to a better acquaintance, with this fine, very extended, yet much neglected Genus; 

 the fpecies of which, now in Britain, amount to more than feventy, has been our chief aim, in endea- 

 vouring to lay before them, figures of fome of the moft rare and beautiful ; one of which we deem 

 the prefent. * 



This variety of Long-leaved Protea, is figured in Boerhaave's Index to the Leyden garden, Part 2. 

 p. 186, as one of his Lepidocarpodendrons, and has been given, byWilldenow in his Sp. plant. Tom. I. 

 p. 531. as a fynonim of P. fpeciofa, quoted from Thunberg's prod. T] '. Dill", de Prot. 



The culture and treatment of this plant, is the fame as P. fpeciofa, to which we refer our readers. 



From a fine plant, in the Hibbertian collection, our drawing was taken in the month of July this 

 year. It was introduced to us from the Royal Ga r dens at Schonbrun in Germany, communicated by 

 the fuperintendant to Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, the feeds having been received from 

 the collector for the Emperor, at the Cape. 



