PLATE CCXXXIV. 



PROTEA SPICATA. 



Spike-flowered Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CoKOLLA 4-fida feu 4-petala. Antherae lineares, 

 infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro- 

 prius nullus. Semina folitaria. 



Blossom 4-cleft or 4-petalled. Tips linear, in- 

 ferted into the petals below the point. Pro- 

 per cup none. Seeds folitary. 

 See Protea Formosa, Plate XVII. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis bipinnatis, fubfiliformibus, pinnulse 

 canaliculatae, apice glaudulofae; capitula fpi- 

 cata, quadriflora. 



Protea with twice-divided leaves nearly thread- 

 fbaped, fmall divifions channelled and glan- 

 dular at the end J fmall heads in fpikes and 

 four-flowered. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. The Empalement. 



2. One of the fmall heads of flowers, not yet expanded. 



3. The fame, with the flowers open. 



4. A flower taken from the general cup, with one of the petals detached, magnified. 



5. The Poinlal, the Summit detached, magnified. 



From a plant now in flower. May 1S02, in the Hibbertian colledlion, our figure was taken. It is one 

 of thofe defcribed by Thunberg in his Dilfertatio de Protea, n. II, and in his Prodromas 25, under 

 the title we have given it; and which is, certainly, very appropriate; although many have the flowers 

 growing in fpikes. We believe this is the firft: time it has flowered in Britain, and that, at prefent, 

 it is very fcarce; having been introduced by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy in the year 1790. It is a hardy 

 greenhoufe plant, is increafed by cuttings, and thrives in a fandy loam with a fmall portion of fandy 

 peat earth. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



