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PROTEA GLAUCOPHYLLA.
Glaucous-leaved Protea.
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis, vide sub, No. 2.
*Folia simplicia, integerrima.
P. caule decumbente; follis 3-5 pollices longis, spatulato-lanceolatis, mucronulatis, utrinque glaucis, lateribus recurvis: fasciculis nutantibus; bracteas involucri grandibus, brevissime ciliatis.
P. Acaulis. Thunb. Diss. n. 9. Leucadendron Acaulon. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 135. Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, &c. Boerh. Hort. Lugd. v. 2. p. 191. cum Ic.
Sponte nascentem infra montem Taffelberg, legit C. P. Thunberg.
Floret apud nos, a Junio in Septembrem.
Though so different in the leaves, this shrub is undoubtedly of the same genus with that Protea figured in the first number of this Work, and was likewise communicated by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy. As it always has a stem, though a very short one, I very willingly adopt their name. It reaches to about a foot in height in our gardens, sending out short decumbent lateral branches, and not growing very rapidly. The leaves are often tinged with a bright red near their base. Flowers without any smell; the whole fasciculus of which is about two inches and a half in diameter when fully expanded, but not so shewy as in many others.
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