REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
This fine fringed Protea in the foliage is very nearly allied to the P. speciosa, but the flower is more spread open than any of that section we have as yet seen. It is naturally so averse to grow upright, that it is with difficulty prevented from bending downwards, which the branches always do till they are tied up. In this particular it very much resembles the P. repens, and, if left at liberty, would no doubt, like that species, creep or spread itself about on the earth. Our figure was made from a plant lately in the conservatory of G. H. Hibbert, esq., but recently consigned to J. Knight, his botanic gardener, who has commenced nurseryman in the King’s Road, Chelsea, with the whole of that well known valuable collection.[Pg 103]
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PLATE DXLIV.
MIMOSA PUDICA.
Bashful Mimosa.
CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.
POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA. Various Dispositions upon one Plant.