Volume 5 — PLATE CCLXXXIX.

PROTEA CORDATA.

Heart-shape-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 four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the ends. Cup, proper, none. Seeds solitary.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Protea foliis cordatis.

Protea with heart-shaped leaves.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Heart-shape-leaved Protea was introduced to Britain in the year 1792, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy; at whose nursery it is now, this present month of March, 1803, in flower for the first time in this country. The plant is only found on the mountains of that part of the Cape called Hottentots Holland; the stem, in its native state, laying on the ground, seldom more than a foot in length, and the flowers proceeding from it near its base. It is rather delicate, should be kept in a very airy part of the green-house, and planted in a light loamy soil. It is propagated by cuttings, made in the month of April, and kept under a common hand-glass, the pot being plunged in a shady border.

Of this Protea there is a good figure in Thunberg’s Dissertatio de Protea, Upsal, quarto edition, 1781, Plate 5, fig. 1.