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 ON THE PKOTEACEiE OF JUSS1EU. 185

From the very short and unsatisfactory description of Thunberg, the genus of this plant cannot be determined, or even with much probability guessed at.

Isopogon.

Protea divaricata. And. Repos. 465.

Can this be a variety of Isopogon anemonifolim ? The yellow flowers satisfy me that it is not a species of [219 Serruria, and prevent me at the same time from referring it to Isopogon anethifolius, whose leaves are not unlike, but whose flowers are of a very different colour.

Protea.

Protea venosa. Lam. Illust. Gen. 1, p. 234, n. 121.2. Poiret, Encyc. Botan. 5, j». 640.

Said by Poiret to resemble in most respects Protea longiflora ; it must therefore be a genuine Protea.

Protea.

Scolymodendros Africanus ex Monte Tabulari. Pluk. Mant. 168, t. 442,/. 4.

This is manifestly a Protea, which it appears Plukenet had seen only in the possession of Woodward. The head, especially in the form of the bractese, bears a great resem- blance to that of Protea cynaroides ; but the leaves are so very different, that, unless we suppose they were drawn from memory and disproportionately reduced, it cannot be referred to this species. It is probably however one of the more common kinds, and I know not what else to suppose it may be, except Protea grandiflora. The figure itself has never, so far as I know, been noticed by any author.

Leucospermum.

Scolymocephalus Africanus, foliis in summitate profundius crenatis, intercreniis majoribus, florum staminulis longis re- curvis. Raj. Hist. 3, Bendr.p. 10.

This is probably a Leucospermum, and perhaps L. ellipticum.

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