PLATE CCLXXXVIII. 



PROTEA CYNAROIDES. 



Artichoke-like-Jiowered Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER L 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla quadrifida feu quadripetala. Antherae 

 lineares, infertae petalis infra apicem. Ca- 

 lyx proprius nuUus. 



Semina folitaria. 



Blossom four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, 

 inferted into the petals below the point. 

 Erapalement proper none. 



Seeds folitary. 



See Protea Formosa, PI. XVII. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis fuborbiculatis, glaberrimis ; petiolis 

 longiflimis; fquamulis calycinis lanceolatis, 

 apice carinatis. 



Protea with nearly orbicular leaves, and very 

 fmoath; footftalks very long; fcales of the 

 cup lance-ftiaped, keeled at the point. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Floret fpread open, with the Chives in their places. 



2. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 



To the Ri<^ht Hon. the Earl of Coventry we are indebted for the figure of this fuperb plant; it having 

 flowered in his Lord{hip"s rich, and extenfive colleftion at Croome, Worcefterihire, tliis prefent 

 February, 1803, for the firft time, in England; his Lordlliip did us the favour to order the flower 

 to be cut, and fent to London ; where it arrived, without the leaft injury, and continued in perfeflion 

 many days. 



The magnificence of this fpecies of Protea, can be but poorly expreffed within the limited bounds 

 of our publication; we have, neverthelefs, endeavoured to do it all tlie juftice within our grafp. A 

 confiderable part of the luftre of the flower is loft, from the fmall portion of the leaves which could be 

 introduced; as the contralted beauty of the fine broad fliining leaves, which form, as it were, a nidus, 

 or <'round wood for the bloflbm, contribute, fo much, to heighten the beauty of the whole. 



The Protea cynaroides is a hardy greenhoufe plant, was introduced to Britain, in l"g2, by 

 Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmidi, from the Cape of Good Hope. May be increafed by cuttings, 

 taken off the lower part of the plant; where they Ihoot out in clufters to the length of an inch or 

 more, and muft be treated as has already been diredted for Proteas in general. The plant, even at the 

 Cape, feldom grows higher than 18 inches, or rvvo feet. 



