sented from the cultivated plant. It was originally intro- 
duced by Mr. Masson, in 1787, from the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
The sample of the present variety flowered last August in 
the greenhouse of Messrs. Colvill in the King’s Road, 
where it had been raised from Cape seed. 
Mr. Brown observes that the variety with linear oblong 
leaves is not to be distinguished from the figure of the Abys- 
sinian Protea (ProrEa abyssinica) to be seen in Bruce’s Tra- 
vels under the vernacular name Gaguedi. 
It comes the nearest to Prorea Scolymus, and seems to 
have received the specific title of grandiflora in reference to 
that species, which is small-flowered for the genus, as several 
others with much larger flowers are familiar in our collec- 
tions. 
