The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]

Comprising Colour’d Engravings of New and Rare Plants ONLY With Botanical Descriptions &c. —— in —— Latin and English , after the Linnæan System. by H. Andrews Botanical Painter Engraver, &c.
PROTEA CORDATA.
Heart-shape-leaved Protea.
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, insertæ petalis infra apicem. Calyx, proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
Blossom four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the ends. Cup, proper, none. Seeds solitary.
See Protea formosa, Pl. XVII. Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis cordatis.
Protea with heart-shaped leaves.