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XXVIL. 
PROTEA LACTICOLOR. 
Milk-coloured Protea. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis vide sub No. 2. 
P. foliis parum obliquis, elliptico-lanceolatis, obsolete mucronulatis, basi precipue subtus lana. 
tis: bracteis involucri interioribus pube sericea fimbriatis: stigmatibus angustissimis. 
Sponte nascentem in Promontorio Cap, legit J. Niven. 
Floret apud nos a Januwario in Martium. 
For this Protea Mr. Hooker is indebted to George Hibbert, Esq. of Clapham, a Gentleman 
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who is only rivalled by his Majesty in the number of rare plants he has introduced, which he 
takes all opportunities of communicating to Botanists with the most unbounded liberality. I 
some of these productions are hybrid by n : . 
and the distinguished gardener who has lately collected such a number of Ericas and Pelargoniums 
half broad, from 3 to 4 inches long, scarcely oblique, horizontally recurved o 
lanceolate, very entire, obsoletely mucronate, woolly on the under surface espe ¢ 
often very convex, and hard. Fasciculus of flowers about 3 inches long, and from 13 to Qin 
diameter. Lower Bractes of the Involucrum pale green wit 
longer and of a paler colour, outside sericeous, inside smooth : ; ; 
suddenly enlarged and like Petals, of a milky whiteness, the innermost fringed with a pubescence 
resembling the finest sik. Petals very narrow . eine 
as in the rest of this tribe, bearded with brownish hairs up to their middle, and their points be. 
yond the Anthers spoon-shaped. Stigma narrower than in any Protea Ihave yet examined. 
