Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. PROTEA with doubly-winged leaves, thread-shaped, and hairy. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded umbels. Footstalks very short. Floral leaves upright. Blossoms of a pale flesh-colour. Summit of the pointal black. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower-prop. 2. The chives spread open. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. This hairy-leaved Protea resembles the P. abrotanifolia, Pl. 507, but is upon examination very distinct. The flowers are of a pale rose colour, but have a lively appearance from the contrasted blackness of the stigma. It is a round bushy plant, flowering early in the autumn, requiring the same treatment as the generality of those species with small divided leaves. Our figure was made from a plant in the Hibbertian collection. [Illustration] PLATE DXXIII. GORTERIA PAVONIA. _Peacock Gorteria._ CLASS XIX. ORDER IV. _SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA._ Tips united. Necessary Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. RECEPTACULUM nudum. Pappus lanatus. Corolla radiata, lingulata. Calyx monophyllus, squamis imbricatis tectus. RECEPTACLE naked. Down woolly. Blossom rayed, tongue-shaped. Empalement one-leafed, covered with imbricated scales. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GORTERIA foliis pinnatis: foliolis æqualibus, ovatis, marginibus revolutis, pilosis, subtus albis: petalis radii magnis, aurantiis, ad basin eleganter notatis. Caulis herbaceus. GORTERIA with winged leaves. The leaflets are equal, ovate, rolled back at the edges, hairy, and white beneath: petals of the ray large, of a gold-colour, and elegantly marked at the base. Stem herbaceous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. One of the radiating petals. 3. The same shown from the under side. 4. A petal as it appears when rolled up. 5. A floret of the disk. 6. The seed-bud and pointal. This new species of Gorteria stands foremost in the ranks of beauty whilst expanded by the solar ray, whose absence is soon visible in the plant by the rolling up of the petals; but on the following morn, when the sun’s beams begin to warm the vegetable world, they again unfold themselves with undiminished lustre, and so continue successively for near a fortnight.