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PROTEA GLAUCOPHYLLA. 
Glaucous-leaved Protea. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis, vide sub, No. 2. 
# Folia simplicia, integerrima. 
P: caule decumbente; foliis 3-5 pollices longis, spatulato-lanceolatis, mucronulatis, utrinque 
glaucis, lateribus recurvis: fasciculis nutantibus; bracteis involucri grandibus, brevissime 
ciliatis. 
-P. Acaulis. Thunb. Diss.n.49. Leucadendron Acaulon. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 135. Lepido- 
carpodendron acaulon, &c. Boerh. Hort, Lugd. v, 2. p. 191. cum Ie. 
Sponte nascentem infra montem Taffelberg, legit C. P. Thunberg. 
Floret apud nos, a Junio in Septembrem, 
Though so different in the leaves, this shrub is undoubtedly of the same genus with that 
Protea figured in the first number of this Work, and was likewise communicated by Messrs. 
Lee and Kennedy. As it always has a stem, though a very short one, I very willingly 
adopt their name. It reaches to about a foot in height in our gardens, sending out short de- 
cumbent lateral branches, and not growing very rapidly. The leaves are often tinged with a 
bright red near their base. Flowers without any smell ; the whole fasciculus of which is about 
two inches and a half in diameter when fully expanded, but not so shewy as in many others. 
 ——_s~ Printed by D, N. Sawa, Berwick-ftreet, Soho. 
