Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 796 - Protea pulchella (Fennel-leaved Protea) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 796, Protea pulchella (Fennel-leaved Protea).

• Plate: 796
• Latin name: Protea pulchella
• Common name: Fennel-leaved Protea
• Linnaean class / order: Tetrandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 796 ]

PROTEA PULCHELLA. FENNEL-LEAVED PROTEA.

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Class and Order.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. 4-petala (petalis fubinde vario modo cohærentibus). Anthere infertæ petalis infra apicem. Sem. 1, superum nudum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
PROTEA pulchella; foliis bipinnatis filiformibus: pinnulis inæqualibus divaricati, capitulo fquamofo oblongo terminali fimplici vel composito. PROTEA pulchella; foliis bipinnatis glabris filiformibus, capitolis terminalibus clavis aggregatis aphyllis bracteateis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 507. PROTEA pulchella; foliis bipinnatis filiformibus glabris, strobilis ovato-oblongis terminalibus verticillatis: fquamis calycinis fericeis apiculata reflexa terminatis. Schrad. Sert. Hannov. 1. p. 15. t. 7. PROTEA rangiferina. Hortulanis. DESCR. Stem shrubby, erect. Leaves alternate, filiform, twice or three times irregularly pinnate: leaflets unequal, divaricate when full grown, and not very unaply resembling the antlers of the rein-deer, whence it has been known by the name of rangiferina among cultivators. Flowers collected into an oblong-ovate cone, terminal*. Bracles obcordate-acuminate, quite entire, imbricate, one to each corolla. Corolla four-petaled; petals equal, adhering half-way in a tube, but separating spontaneously when they fall off. Ambers oblong, * In SCHRADER's figure at the base of the central cone, which is fertile as in our plant, there grow several smaller club-shaped cones standing in a whorl supported on footstalks thickened upwards; but whether this is natural to the plant when it flowers strong, or a fort of monstrosity, we are uncertain. attached

This print comes from our Curtis archive (via the Royal Horticultural Society and Wheldon & Wesley). Sold as an original historic plate - please review photos for condition.