Volume 8 — PLATE DXLV.

PROTEA ABROTANIFOLIA, odorata.

Sweet-scented Southernwood-leaved Protea.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

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 multifidis, filiformibus, acutis, pilosis: floribus in capitulis terminalibus, lucidis, odoratis.

Habitat in Caput Bonæ Spei.

Protea with many-cleft leaves, thread-shaped, pointed, and hairy: flowers grow in terminal heads, shining, and sweet-scented.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A flower, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal.

This species of Protea well deserves a place in any collection, as, in addition to its light and graceful appearance, it is possessed of a most agreeable fragrance. There is a variation of it with white flowers, but exactly the same in every other particular. It remains a considerable time in bloom, but not many umbels of flowers are expanded at the same time. We have seen it in several collections. It is a Cape species, and appears to be of easy culture.