Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A leaf magnified.
2. An umbel of flowers.
3. A chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
This Cape species is described and figured by Thunberg in his Dissertation on the genus Protea. It is rather a tender plant, and flowers at first very sparingly; which is the case with almost all this tribe for the first year or two: after they are more familiarized to our climate they become much more prolific. We have seen native specimens of this species abundant in flowers terminating every branch.
Our figure was made from a plant in the conservatory of G. Hibbert, esq. whose collection still contains unrivalled the greatest number of new and beautiful species of Protea.[Pg 51]
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PLATE DXVIII.
MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA.
Larger-flowered Magnolia.