Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 698 - Protea scolymus (Small Smooth-leaved Protea) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 698, Protea scolymus (Small Smooth-leaved Protea).

• Plate: 698
• Latin name: Protea scolymus
• Common name: Small Smooth-leaved Protea
• Linnaean class / order: Tetrandria / Monogynia
• Publication: May 1, 1803
• Artist: S. Edwards del.
• Engraver: F. Sansom sculp.
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 698 ]

PROTEA SCOLYMUS. SMALL SMOOTH-LEAVED PROTEA.

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Class and Order.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. 4-petala (petalis subinde vario modo coharentibus). Anthere intertae petalis infra apicem. Sem. 1, superum, nudum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
PROTEA scolymus; foliis lanceolatis acutis capituloqueterminali rotundo glabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 522. Thunb. Prod. 26. Diss. n. 36. Hort. Kew. 1. 127. Mart. Miller Dist. n. 38. Scrad. Seri. Hannov. p. 4. t. 20. PROTEA scolymocephala. Reichard. 1. 271. LEUCADENDRON scolymocephalum; foliis lanceolatis floribus subrotundis, caule fructicoso ramofo. Sp. Pl. 135. LEPIDOCARPODENDRON acaulon, ramis numerosis e terra excrefcens; calyce floris immaturo extus ex rubro et flavo variegato, intus flavo. Boerh. Lugd. 2. p. 192. cum icone. There is probably more than one variety of this species of PROTEA, for it is described by THUNBERG as having purplish corollas; in our plant the style only is purple. The corolla, which consists of two unequal petals connected together at the base, but easily separated, is a greenish yellow: one of the petals bears three anthers a little below the tip; the other, which is filiform, only one. There is, however, some little variety in this, some of the flowers separating spontaneously

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