Protea saligna, in the Species Plantarum of Linnæus, is considered as only a variety of P. conifera, but is certainly specifically distinct in its foliage, however resembling in other particulars. Finding, soon after we had made our drawing, a female plant in fine bloom, we have annexed a branch of it on the same plate, to elucidate as much as possible the apparent confusion that at present seems to pervade this section of the Genus Protea. The P. saligna of Thunberg, enumerated by Willdenow, we have no doubt, describes the female specimen we have represented, the cone being there mentioned as about the size of a pea, and which exactly accords with our figure. The drawings were made from plants introduced to this country from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1806, by G. Hibbert, esq. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXIII. MAGNOLIA AURICULATA. _Ear-leaved Magnolia._ CLASS XIII. ORDER VII. _POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA._ Many Chives. Many Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 3-phyllus. Petala 6-12. Capsulæ 2-valves, imbricatæ. Semina baccata, pendula. CUP 3-leaved. Petals 6-12. Capsules 2-valved, tiled. Seeds berried, pendulous. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. MAGNOLIA foliis obovato-lanceolatis, basi attenuatis, auritis, glabris, subtus glaucis. Habitat in America boreali. MAGNOLIA with obovate lance-shaped leaves, attenuated towards the base, eared, smooth, and glaucous beneath. Native of North America. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A chive. 2. Seed-bud and pointals. * * * * * Amongst the finest hardy exotics that ornament the gardens, the Magnolias are eminently conspicuous. A fine species of that description our figure represents, drawn from a plant seven feet high in the nursery-ground of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, who inform me that it was sent to them from Maryland in North America, by Mr. Bartram, about the year 1793. It does not seed with us, as very few of the genus do; and when any of them appear to have ripened their seed perfectly, we understand they have very rarely if ever vegetated. This species is perfectly hardy, but is with difficulty raised by layers; which accounts for its being (after a period of sixteen years since its first introduction to this country) not so generally known as it deserves to be. It flowers in the month of May. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXIV. PULTENÆA OBCORDATA. _Inversely Heart-leaved Pultenæa._ CLASS X. ORDER I. _DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Ten Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX quinque-dentatus, utrinque appendiculatus. Corolla papilionacea, alis vexillo brevioribus. Legumen uniloculare, dispermum. CUP five-toothed, with an appendage on each side. Blossom butterfly-shaped, with the wings shorter than the standard. Pod of one cell, with two seeds. See Pultenæa Daphnoides, Pl. XCVIII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.