Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, petalis infra apices insertæ. Calyx proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Protea foliis lanceolatis, mucronatis, glaucis: involucro imbricato, ad basin parvo, cuneato, virescente; superis lanceolatis, patentibus, acutis, albis: floribus terminalibus, capitatis, carneis, petalis cohærentibus.
Protea with lance-shaped, mucronate leaves of a glaucous green: the involucrum tiled, small at the base, wedge-shaped, and greenish: those on the upper part are lance-shaped, spreading, pointed, and white: flowers are terminal and headed, flesh-coloured, with the petals adhering together.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
Amongst the smaller species of this extensive genus the Protea mucronifolia may be placed, but by no means ranked among the least in beauty. It has been figured in the Paradisus Londinensis, and also in the Botanical Magazine, and therefore in the botanical world may be no longer considered as new or rare: but having already figured so many of the most beautiful, we cannot think of excluding any attractive or distinct species of this fine tribe of plants.
Our figure was taken from a plant in the garden of G. Hibbert, esq.[Pg 17]
