CALYX simplex. Stylus multipartitus. Capsulæ plures, mono-seu tri-spermæ. CALYX simple. Pointal many-parted. Seed-vessels many, one-or three-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. SIDA foliis cordatis, dentatis, longè acuminatis, leviter pubescentibus; pedunculis solitariis petiolis longioribus; corollis patentibus; stylis quinquepartitis; capsulis quinque, birostratis. SIDA with heart-shaped, toothed, long-pointed, and slightly woolly leaves; solitary flower-stalks longer than the footstalks; spreading corollas, five-parted styles, and five two-beaked capsules. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. * * * * * Another African novelty introduced by Viscount Valentia in 1806 from Abyssinia; and from specimens obligingly communicated by him from his gardens at Arly the drawing is taken. From the seeds already introduced by his Lordship from that yet unexplored, and hitherto almost inaccessible country, and from the connexions he is now endeavouring to establish there, Mr. Salt, who travelled in his Lordship’s suite, being now dispatched on an embassy to the King of that country at Gondar, we may soon hope to have a few more specimens of its vegetable productions; at present as imperfectly known as the sources of the Nile, which have eluded the researches of philosophers above two thousand years. Sida patens, in the natural arrangement of the genus, should be placed next to _Sida reflexa_ of Cavanilles and Willdenow. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXII. PROTEA SALIGNA. _Willow-leaved Protea._ CLASS IV. ORDER I. _TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, petalis infra apices insertæ. Calyx proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria. BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PROTEA foliis obliquis, lanceolatis, pubescentibus: capitulis oblongis, involucratis, terminalibus. Feminei flores ramos terminant cum cono ovato magnitudine pisi, involucro bicolori circumdato. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. PROTEA with oblique, lance-shaped, hairy leaves: heads of flowers oblong, involucrated, and terminal. Female flowers terminate the branches with an ovate cone about the size of a pea, surrounded by a two-coloured involucrum. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Section of a head of flowers from the female plant. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. * * * * *