PLATE CCXLVIII. 



PROTEA UMBELLATA. 



Umhellated Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida feu 4-petala. Anthers Hneares, 

 infertae petalis intra apicem. Cal}x pro- 

 prius nullus. Semina folitaria. 



Blossom 4 cleft or4-petals. Tips linear, infert- 

 ed into the petals below the point. Cup 

 proper none. Seeds folitary. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis linearifpathulatis, glabris; capitu- 

 lis terminalibus; brafteis inultifidis; flori- 

 bus luteis. 



Protea with linearly-fpathulate leaves, fniooth; 

 heads of flowers terminate the branches; 

 floral leaves many cleft; flowers yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. One of the floral leaves or fcales of the general empalement, magnifled. 



2. A flower, magnified. 



3. One of the heads of flowers, diverted of the fcales, or floral leaves. 



4. The Pointal and feed bud, of one of the florets, magnified. 



The Protea umbellata has been cultivated in England fince the year 1777> 3t which time it was firrt 

 raifed from feeds; received from the Cape of Good Hope by Mellrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, 

 at whofe nurfery our figure was taken in the month of Auguft 1800. It is a very hardy plant, and 

 not at all fubjeft to the very common fate of its congeners; that is, to damp in the leaves, or rot at 

 the root in winter; is propagated by cuttings, to Le made in the month of April or May, and treated as 

 direfted for the other Proteas. The plant fcldom grows higher than tiiree feet, and does not make 

 majiy branches; but is of a lively green colour, both leaves and fl;em. We have, as ufual, adopted the 

 name this plant is generally known by, it having been fo named by the younger Linnseus in his Suppl. 

 Plant. 118_, and by Thunberg in his DilTertatio de Protea, n. 34, and his Prodromus 26. But why 

 or how a fmall, clofe head of flowers may be denominated an umbel we muft confefs our ignorance 

 in this application of terms. 



