PROTEA foliis lanceolatis, obliquis, transverse et horizontaliter sitis, marginibus tomentosis: squamis calycinis superioribus spathulatis, angustis, tomentosis, margine piloso, incarnatis: squamis infra lato-ovatis, tomentosis, intus melliferis: caulis erectus, sesquipedalis. PROTEA with lance-shaped oblique leaves standing sideways in a horizontal direction, with downy edges. The upper scales of the empalement are spathula-shaped, narrow, downy, with hairy edges, and flesh-coloured. The scales beneath are broadly ovate, downy, and furnished with honey on the inner side. Stem upright, a foot and a half high. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete. 2. Seed-bud and pointal. This Protea may be regarded as an intermediate character between the P. mellifera and that fine section of Protea speciosa; and certainly, in point of beauty, deserves to be ranked among that showy division: but as the principal leading feature in the Speciosas exists in the powerful feathery fringe upon the edges of the imbrication, and the present one possessing so very slight a characteristic of that description, we could not with propriety rank it amongst them. Its affinity to the P. mellifera is only in the honey-bearing character of its flowers, which, like that species, contain a quantity of nectariferous juice. The unoccupied term of coronata is adopted, from the resemblance its imbrication bears to the form of a crown, and which is more apparent in this species than in any other as yet in cultivation with us. Our figure was made from the Clapham collection. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXX. OPHRYS ARACHNOIDES. _Spider-like Ophrys._ CLASS XX. ORDER I. _GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA._ Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 5 petala, sub-ringens: petalis patentibus: labellum nectarii e basi styli, patens. Antheræ duæ, terminales, adnatæ. BLOSSOM 5 petals, nearly gaping: petals spreading: the lip of the honey-cup comes from the base of the shaft, spreading. Chives two, terminal, and close together. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. OPHRYS arachnoides, caule folioso: foliis lanceolatis, glauco-viridibus, striatis: corollis patentibus, sub-albis; tribus exterioribus obtusis; duabus interioribus acutis, brevissimis: labello nectarii magno, subrotundo, fusco, convexo, villoso: prope basin labelli duæ sunt appendiculæ oppositæ, flavæ: centrum nectarii interlineatum est, maculisque flavis notatum: et in medio marginis tuberculum carnosum.