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 tri-furcatis, filiformibus, acutis: floribus parvis, ramos terminantibus in umbellis confertis.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Protea with leaves three-forked, thread-shaped, and pointed. Flowers small, and terminate the branches in crowded umbels.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A leaf.
2. A bract.
3. A flower, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
Throughout this small divided-leaved section of the genus Protea there is a similarity of appearance in the foliage, that makes the specific differences appear less distinct than they really are. The small-flowered species is a compact bushy little shrub, about fourteen inches high, and nearly the same in width, requiring a light sandy loam, free access of air, and a little attention to preserve it from the partial humidity of the atmosphere.[Pg 89]
