Whether we consider this Protea as a species, or only a variety, it well deserves a representation. The only plant we have ever seen of it, and from whence our figure was taken, was in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, in the year 1807. Its unequivocal claim to the specific title of mellifera we unawares experienced, as, in bending the plant a little forward to view the interior of its flowers, (the plant being near seven feet high,) it literally poured out a stream of nectareous juice, the cup being filled with honey as high as the imbrications could possibly contain it. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXXIII. LONICERA JAPONICA. _Japanese Woodbine._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca polysperma, bilocularis, infera. BLOSSOM of one petal, irregular. Berry many-seeded, 2-celled, below. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. LONICERA foliis perennantibus petiolatis villosis: caule volubili. Lonicera japonica. _Willd. Sp. Pl._ LONICERA with ever-green downy leaves upon footstalks, and a twining stem. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower spread open. 2. The seed-bud and pointal. * * * * * This far-fetched and yet rare species of “the luscious woodbine” is the Kin-gin-qua, or Gold and Silver Flower, of the Japanese, as we learn from Kæmpfer and Thunberg. The same name is also affixed to a Chinese drawing of the plant, a copy of which we have seen in the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. From the same drawing we learn that the flowers come sometimes more in heads, and much more numerous than in our specimen; which may probably be accounted for from the plants being kept here in the green-house. Being an ever-green, like the Minorca and American twining honey-suckles, the species is the more desirable. It was introduced, we are informed, from China about the year 1805, and our drawing was taken in July 1809, in the garden of the Count de Vandes at Bayswater. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXXIV. PHLOMIS SAMIA. _Samian Phlomis._ CLASS XIV. ORDER I. _DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX angulatus. Corollæ labium superius incumbens, compressum, villosum. CUP angled: upper lip of the corolla incumbent, compressed and downy. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PHLOMIS caule hirsuto, foliis cordatis, crenatis, subtus tomentosis, bracteis tripartitis subulatis mucronatis calycem æquantibus. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 120._ PHLOMIS with a hairy stalk: leaves heart-shaped, scolloped, and cottony underneath: bracts 3-parted, awl-shaped, as long as the cup. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A flower spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. * * * * *