PLATE DCXLVL 

 PROTEA RADIATA. 



Radiated Protea. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-fida sen 4-petala. Antherae linea- 

 resj petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx pro- 

 prius nullus. Semina solitaria. 



Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- 

 near, inserted into the petals below the points. 

 Cup proper none. Seeds solitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Protea foliis obtuse lanceolatis, obliquis, hori- 

 zontaliter sitis: squamis calycinis spathu- 

 latis, rubris, tomentosis, marginibus pilo- 

 sis : caule erecto, bipedali. 



Protea with leaves obtusely lance-shaped, stand- 

 ing sideways in an horizontal direction : 

 scales of the empalement spathula-shaped, 

 red, and downy, with hairy margins. Stem 

 upright, and about two feet high. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower complete. 



2. The empalement and flowers of a green variety. 



This Protea is nearest allied to the P. coronata published in the Seventh Volume ofthis Work, PI. 469, 

 but differs essentially from it (and also from every other species of Protea at present known to us) in having 

 so few flowers, that the centre looks like an empty cup, the flowers being spread out towards the im- 

 bricated scales of the empalement in a circular manner; whence its specific title of radiata. In the 

 bud state it does not promise that splendid appearance which it exhi its when expanded. Our figure 

 represents a plant from the nursery of Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, Chelsea. At the base we have 

 added the head of flowers of a green variety, communicated to us from the Hainmersmith Nursery, 

 raised from Cape seed, at the same time as the red, about the year 1 8O9, and which flowered for the 

 first time in this country last autumn (1811). 



In our last Number we forgot to mention that the figure of the Lobelia Speculum was taken from a plant in the 

 Rursery of Messrs. Colville, and the Epidendrum fragraus from the collection of J. Vere, esq. 



