Volume 8 — PLATE DXXXII.

PROTEA HUMIFLORA.

Low-flowering 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 lanceolatis: ramis plurimis adscendentibus: floribus confertis, procumbentibus.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Protea with lance-shaped leaves, with many ascending branches. Flowers crowded together, and lying on the ground.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Of this perfectly new species of Protea we have represented the entire plant, just as we found it growing in the conservatory of G. Hibbert, esq., where it has flowered for the first time in this country. In the flowers it resembles the P. cordata, in its foliage the P. canaliculata, allied to each and yet removed from both. The procumbent situation of its crowded blossoms gives a singularity to its appearance, and altogether it is certainly a very interesting species. It should be planted in a light loamy soil, and kept in an airy part of the green-house.