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PROTEA ACUIFOLIA. 
Needle-leaved Protea. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Proteze. Juss. Gen. p. 78. 
Bractea 1 sub singulis floribus, involucro aliarum majorum sepe cinctis. Corolla varie 4-fida, 
laciniis apice liberis vel coherentibus, persistens. Pericarpium crustaceum, 1-loculare, 
1-spermum, deciduum, usque in germinationem clausum. Genus procul dubio dividendum ; 
Folia simplicia decompositaque, flores diclines hermaphroditosque, ut taceam differentias bractearum, 
nunc conjungens. ; 
* Folia simplicia, integerrima. 
P. foliis sublinearibus, teretiusculis, mucronatis, punctatis; fasciculis cernuis; bracteis inyolucri 
exquisite ciliatis, 
P. nana. Thunb. Diss.n. 29. P, rosacea. Linn. Mant. p- 189, Leucadendron nanum. Berg. Pi. 
Cap. p. 22. Conophoros capensis Pini folio. Pet, Gaz. p. 40. f. 25. f. 7. 
Sponte nascentem in Roodesand, montibus, legit C. P. Thunberg. 
Floret a Septembri, in Decembrem. 
There is no figure of this species but Petiver’s imperfect engraving ; it was communicated by 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, whose liberality in giving specimens of their rarest plants to Botanists 
does them so much honour, The outer bractes are disposed into a very regular rose, and con- 
stitute the chief beauty of the flower, which has no smell; their margin is ciliated with very 
short white hairs. Corolla towards the top covered with brown hairs. Style long, and standing 
out from the centre towards the bractes. It flowers here, asat the Cape of Good Hope, from the 
latter end of Spring to the middle of Summer, and may be propagated by cuttings planted in 
sandy loam, under a bell glass, during the months of May and June. 
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