Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 19/697

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Class and Order.

Generic Character.

Cor. 4-petala (petalis subinde vario modo cohærentibus). Antheræ inferte petalis infra apicem. Sem. 1. superum nudum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PROTEA Anemonifolia foliis linearibus elongatis superne sur- cato-pinnatifidis: pinnis imis longioribus surcatis, capitulo globoso terminali.

Stem shrubby, three feet high, villous. Leaves scattered, rigid, nerved, smooth, erect, lengthened downwards so as to resemble a long footstalk, branched at the upper part into about three pair of pinnas, the lowermost of which are longest and variously forked at the end: points allarmed with a callous reddish mucro or gland. Common Flower solitary, globose, sessile. Calcine Scales ovate-acuminate, very woolly except the margin, compactly imbricate, forming a globose cone fluffed with a fine white cottony substance. Corolla one- petaled, tubed: tube longer than the limb. which is four-cleft, hairy, tortuose. Anthers linear, 2-lobed sessile. Style ex- serted, club-shaped. Stigma conical, acute; the style and stigma have a singular appearance in this species something like two cones with their bases applied together, but when the flower first opens, these parts are so entirely covered with pollen as to appear four-sided. Corresponds Corresponds very nearly with original descip- tion of spærocephala, and is not unlike figure of a plant; it does not however agree with the descrip- tion of , and being a native of New-Holland, differing from most of the Cape species  in having a long tube to the corolla, and limb divided into four equal segments, is undoutedly distinct. We have adopted the name of anemoni- folia, though certainly not very appropriate, as it has been some time known by that name in several of our nurseries

We were favoured with the specimen from which our draw- ing was made, by, Nurseyman, near Vauxhall, a very successful cultivator of many rare articles, who raised it from seeds received from Port-Jackson.

Is a greenhouse plant, and requires the same treatment as the rest of the genus.