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PROTEA acerosa. 
Pine-leaved Protea. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Protex. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus 
monospermus. 
Proreacexz. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10, 15, seqg. Div. I. 
Fructus clausus. 
PROTEA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 208. 
Div. Flores laterales. 
P. acerosa, floribus lateralibus, foliis subulatis, receptaculo convexiusculo: 
paleis obtusis. Brown loc. cit. 95. a 
’ Protea acerosa. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1.1944 
Caulis brevis. Rami erecti, glabri. Folia levia. Involucra ramea, sub- 
aggregata, brevitér pedunculata ; bracteis obtusts, interiortbus pube diutirs 
persistentt subsericets. Calyx muticus, apice barbatvu. Receptaculi palee 
connate. Squamule hypogyne subulate. ; 
Oss. Varietas? Froliis longioribus (sesquiuncialibus) semiteretibus in 
Herbario et Hort. D. Hibbert vidi, que secundim D. Niven. 3-4 pedes alta 
in montosis solo fertiliori lecta. Hac Protea virgata. Andrews’s reposit. 
577. Brown loc. cit. 
Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. 
Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, in 1803. 
Requires, like the rest of its congeners, to be cultivated in 
bog-earth, with which a smaller proportion of hazel loam 
has been mixed, and to be guarded from frost and damp in 
an airy greenhouse. Blossoms from March to May. ° 
A low shrub. Séem short. Branches upright, smooth. 
Leaves subulate, smooth. lowers lateral.  Involucres 
growing with the branches, disposed in a kind of cluster, 
shortly peduncled; bractes obtuse, inner ones somewhat 
silkily furred with a pubescence that endures for some 
time, Calyx awnless, bearded at the summit. Receptacle 
somewhat convex: palew (the chaff-like membranes which 
separate the group of florets within the involucre and 
spring from the receptacle) obtuse, connate. Hypogynous - 
squamule (small scales below the florets) subulate (awl- 
shaped). 
Mr. Brown saw in Mr. Hibbert’s Herbarium a plant, 
which he thinks likely to be a variety of the present, and 
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