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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]

Name: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]
Author: Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Plants -- Pictorial works; Plants, Cultivated -- Pictorial works; Rare plants -- Pictorial works

[Illustration:

                               _Vol. V._

                               _of the_

                         Botanists Repository

                             _Comprising,
                         Colour’d Engravings_

                                  of

                         _New and Rare Plants_

                                 ONLY

                    With Botanical Descriptions &c.

                                 _in_

                         _Latin and English_,

                              _after the_

                            Linnæan System.

                                 _by_

                             _H. Andrews_

                   _Botanical Printer Engraver &c._

                               Mo. Bot.

                                 1904.
                                   ]

PLATE CCLXXXIX.

PROTEA CORDATA.

_Heart-shape-leaved Protea._

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

_TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

BLOSSOM four-cleft or four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals
below the ends. Cup, proper, none. Seeds solitary.

See PROTEA FORMOSA, Pl. XVII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Protea foliis cordatis.

Protea with heart-shaped leaves.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Floret before the petals have separated, natural
size.
2. The same, magnified, after the bursting of the petals.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, natural size.

The Heart-shape-leaved Protea was introduced to Britain in the year
1792, from the Cape of Good Hope, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy; at whose
nursery it is now, this present month of March, 1803, in flower for the
first time in this country. The plant is only found on the mountains of
that part of the Cape called Hottentots Holland; the stem, in its native
state, laying on the ground, seldom more than a foot in length, and the
flowers proceeding from it near its base. It is rather delicate, should
be kept in a very airy part of the green-house, and planted in a light
loamy soil. It is propagated by cuttings, made in the month of April,
and kept under a common hand-glass, the pot being plunged in a shady
border.

Of this Protea there is a good figure in Thunberg’s _Dissertatio de
Protea_, Upsal, quarto edition, 1781, Plate 5, fig. 1.

[Illustration]

PLATE CCXC.

APONOGETON DISTACHYON.

_Broad-leaved Aponogeton._

CLASS XI. ORDER IV.

_DODECANDRIA TETRAGYNIA._ Twelve Chives. Four Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

CALYX nullus, nisi squama spathacea externum latus floris cingens,
simplex, sessilis, ovata, obtusa, integra, erecta, glabra, colorata.

COROLLA nulla.

STAMINA. Filamenta undecim ad novemdecim, superioribus floribus
pauciora, intra spatham et capsulas inserta, subulata, glabra, alba,
spatha multoties breviora. Antheræ erectæ, bifidæ.

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