Volume 8 — PLATE DXXXVI.

PROTEA ABROTANIFOLIA, minor.

Small 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 tri-furcatis, filiformibus, acutis: floribus parvis, ramos terminantibus in umbellis confertis.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Protea with leaves three-forked, thread-shaped, and pointed. Flowers small, and terminate the branches in crowded umbels.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A leaf. 2. A bract. 3. A flower, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal.

Throughout this small divided-leaved section of the genus Protea there is a similarity of appearance in the foliage, that makes the specific differences appear less distinct than they really are. The small-flowered species is a compact bushy little shrub, about fourteen inches high, and nearly the same in width, requiring a light sandy loam, free access of air, and a little attention to preserve it from the partial humidity of the atmosphere.