A dwarf shrub, bushy, with branches nearly whorled.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The involucrum of the flowers.
2. A flower with its bractea.
3. A chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
This plant has been long known in the gardens by the title of Protea purpurea, but never flowered in this country till last summer, at the nursery of Mr. Williams of Turnham Green; when, instead of purple flowers, (as was expected from its specific title,) they proved to be yellow. It bears so great a resemblance to the P. teretifolia, that when we figured that species (by comparing it with a dried native specimen,) we were almost inclined to think a small variety of that plant was the P. corymbosa altered in its manner of growth in this climate by a different mode of culture. But comparison with the living plants has now determined them to be distinct species, and left no doubt remaining of this being the P. corymbosa figured by Thunberg in his Dissertation on the genus Protea.[Pg 7]
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PLATE CCCCXCVI.
JASMINUM MULTIFLORUM.
Many-flowered Jasmine.
CLASS II. ORDER I.