Volume 4 — PLATE CCXLIII. PROTEA LAGOPUS. Woolly-leaved Protea.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 4-fida seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, insertæ petalis infra apicem. Calyx proprius nullus. Semina solitaria.

Blossom 4-cleft or 4-petalled. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the point. Proper Cup none. Seeds solitary.

See Protea formosa, Pl. XVII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Protea foliis bipinnatis, filiformibus; capitulis spicatis, aggregatis, quadrifloris; corollis intus purpureis.

Protea with doubly winged leaves, thread-shaped; small heads grow in spikes close together, four flowers in each; blossoms purple within.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The scales of the cup of one of the small heads.

2. A small head of flowers, one of the flowers open, the rest not yet expanded.

3. A floret, with the p#tals expanded.

4. A petal, with its chive, magnified.

5. A Pointal, natural size, with the summit detached and magnified.

This handsome Protea we owe to Mr. R. Williams, of Turnham-green, nurseryman, who raised it by seeds received from the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1797. It is one of the handsomest we yet possess of the winged-leaved kind of Proteas; of which division, in this large family, there are now in the Hibbertian collection eighteen distinct species. This plant grows to the height of three feet, makes a very bushy head, and, when in flower, has a handsome appearance; as there are sometimes twenty spikes of flowers on it at one time. It is propagated by cuttings, thrives in sandy loam, and flowers in June; in which month this year, 1802, our drawing was made at Clapham.