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Lon Oba 
PROTEA( longifolia. ) 
Long-leaved Protea. 
' TETRANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
PROTEA. | Supra fol. 20. 
P. longifolia, foliis elongato-linearibus basi attenuatis, involucri turbi- 
nati bracteis glabris acutis imberbibus, corollz aristis lamin’ longiori- 
bus, stylo pubescente apice curvato. Brown in linn. soc. transact. 
10. 83. 
Protea longifolia. Andrews’s reposit. 132, 183, 144. Persoon. syn. 1. 
116. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 190. 
Protea vidua. Recens. pl. in reposit. botan. depict. 39. n. 129. 
Protea Lepidecarpodendron. Herb. Linn. 
Lepidocarpodendron, foliis angustis longis salignis nervo rubro; florum 
plumis violaceo-purpureis. Boerh. lugdb. 2. 1863 cum icone. 
Folia numerosa, patentissima, spathulato-ligulata, angusta, nuda, avenia, 
papillis minutissimis albidis (sub lente) densissimé conspersa, sesuncialia v. - 
ultra, 3-4 lineas lata, acumine obtuso. Bractez exteriores involucri ovato- 
lanceolate, interiores lineari-lanceolate. Corolle involucro @gquales vel 
nonnthil longiores, hirsutits lanate sed non dense, pilis in aristis atropur- 
purascentibus. Stylus biuncialis, albo-villosus, subulato-attenuatus, com= 
presso-teres, flexura brevi infra stigma. Stigma subulatum, acutum, glabrum, 
hinc bast nodo obliquo subsemicirculari protuberans. 
A species that may be known by its long narrow foliage 
from all its nearest akin that are yet recorded. It is 
more rare, and multiplied with greater difficulty, than the 
pulchella of the twentieth article of this work. The bloom 
is less showy than in that, yet of considerable beauty, but. 
not so freely produced. We find no account of the size the 
shrub acquires, and it is needless to speak from the single 
specimen we have seen in a greenhouse, and of which we — 
knew not the age. What we have already said concerning 
the treatment of pulchella in the article we have mentioned, - 
applies equally to the present species, 
Introduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope 
in the year 1790. . : 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Lee and 
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