Sept. 
OF GARDEN EN G. 
this he refers the Protea, foliis oblongo ovatis lana 
——— obvolutis of VAN Roven, and BoerHAAVE'S short 
‘ 
Pl. 63. 
Fig. 3. 
and round leaved Conocarpedendron. 
The Root .is woody and fpreading. 
The Plant is a Shrub of three, four, or more 
Feet in Height; and fometimes a little Tree. 
The Stem is tough, and covered with an un- 
even brown Bark. 
The Branches are numerous, they ftand with 
perfect Irregularity, and they are of a paler 
Hue, often covered with a woolly or cottony 
Subftance. 
The Leaves ftand thick upon them, entirely | 
covering ‘all the. young Shoots, and lying one 
upon another like Tiles on Houfes, or the Scales 
of Fifth: they are fmall, and of an oval Figure, 
obtufe, thick, and of a firm Subftance, and are 
more or lefs covered with an irregular cottony 
Matter; and in Proportion to this they appear 
green, brownifh, or white ; plain, or {potted : 
but their moft natural and moft pleafing Colour 
is a deep green tinged with brown, and dotted 
with grey. 
- The Flowers terminate all the Branches in 
round Clufters, not large, but thick fet, and ex- 
treamly -elegant. They are of a moft delicate 
lively green. at firft,; as the Flowers open they 
appear oleae ; and as they decay, brown. 
The Flowers open upon every Head in a Suc- 
ceffion from the Bottom; and, in confequence, 
the three Colours are feen on every Head when 
ft has fome time flowered, and they fet one ano- — 
In this Cafe | 
ther off ina very pleafing mariner. 
the Bottom of the Head is brown ; the Middle, 
where the Flowers are perfect, is yellow; and the 
Top, where they are in Bud, is green. a 
Each Flower is formed. of a fingle Petal, but 
the Cup is common to them all; this is rounded, 
‘and is compofed of oval Scales laid over one ano- 
ther with a fair Regularity. The Flowers exceed 
the Scales of ‘the Cup in Length, and cover its | 
Surface in an uniform manner. BHT 29 
The Flower is tubular at the Bafe, a at the 
Rim divided into four ane Segments, which 
fpread open. 
In the Centre are placed four F — briftly, 
3. 
The Indies {Carce afford us a Shrub of greater 
Elegance than this high coloured Jxora: of one 
more qualified to ftrike the Attention even of the 
‘Incurious; or promote the Love of the Science. 
The old Writers were not acquainted with it; 
but Puvxenet and Burman have fhewn they 
had a due Senfe of its Excellence. 
They have referred it to the Fa/mines, a natu- 
ral Error, from the tufted Growth, and general 
— Afpe& of the Flowers ; 
able in thofe who have confidered the Science of 
but by no: means juftifi- 
Botany. If they had overlooked that Character 
from which Linnaeus deduces the Diftinétions 
of Claffes, or had not feen, or had not regarded 
CRIMSON 
and longer than the Flower, and-thefe are crowned 
with incumbent Buttons. In the Midft of them 
appears a Style of the fame Length, fingle, up- 
right, and crowned with a round Head. 
This takes its Rife from a roundifh Rudiment 
of a Seed, which afterwards ripens, and ftands 
naked in the Cup. The whole Number are 
fixed to a conic Receptacle, and feparated by 
light chaffy Films, 
The four Filaments and fingle Style fhew the 
Plant to be one of the Tetrandria Monogynia of 
Linn4vs. 
Culture of this PROTEA. 
The Shrub is a Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, where it thrives. in deep loofe Soils, and 
fringes the Bottoms of Hills with its innume- 
rable Flowers in a moft pleafing and aftonifhing 
‘manner. a 
With us it requires the Heat of a Stove, and 
the beft Method is to raife it from Seeds. 
Thefe fhould be brought over. in their Heads. 5 
and as foon as received in England they fhould be 
fhook out upon a papered Shelf, and turned every 
Day to harden: after this they are to be tied ue 
in Paper Bags, and fo kept till Spring. | 
In the Beginning of March fill a Pot of fome 
of the light. Compofts, {catter the Seeds upon 
Inch . of the fame Mould. Set the Pot up to 
the Rim in a Bark-bed, and once’ in three Days 
the Mould muft be very lightly watered. 
this; and fift over them half a Quarter of an 
624 
Sept. 
When the Plants have-a little Strength, they 
muft be taken up, and each planted in a fmall 
Pot. 
Rim in the Bark, and Care mutt be taken to 
take up a Ball of Earth with each, and to water 
it carefully when new planted. 
‘The Glaffes muft be fhaded with a Mat iri the 
Middle of the Day, and from Time to Time a 
little Air muft be admitted, and they muft be 
watered. When they are well rooted, and have 
got fome Strength, they muft be - fhifted into 
larger Pots, and taken 3 into the Stove. | 
IXORA, 
that the ¥a/minés havé only two Filaments, and 
this Plant four; they fhould have ftill feen the 
more obvious Character, ‘that the Ja/mine Flower 
is cut into five Segments, large and diftin& like 
Petals ; and this only into four. | ‘ 
Thefe Pots. muft again be fet up to the 
Overlooking all this natural Diftinction, Piv: Se 
lauri folium indorum umbellatum floribus coccineis : 
Bay leaved Indian Jafmine, with crimfon {cent- 
lefs Flowers in Umbells. : 
Burman has lefs Excufe, he wrote with more 
Obfervance of Nature, and after Linn us; but 
againit all this he preferves the Name a/mine , 
and triumphing in continuing in the Wrong, 
i euncr fal ealled the Shrub Falminum indicum 
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