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GREVILLEJ* punicea 



Scarlet Greville«. 



TETRANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 



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Nat. ord. Proteace^. 



GREVILLEk. — Suptii, vol, Q. foL 443. 



^lum aequante 



G. punicea ; foliis elliptlco-oblongis basi subattenuatis marginibus refractis, 

 ramulis florlferis racemoque abbreviato recurvis, barba interiore pen- 



anthii oblonga dimidium inferius ur~^ *- -=''*="=° »^^;ol,hn. 



R. Brown prodr. 1. 232. ed. Germ. 



Embothrium sericeutn /J. Smith New HolL 25. /. 9. /. 5. /3. 



Lyssanthe speciosa. Knight et Salisb. prot. p. 118? 



Grevillea punicea. Brown in Linn, trans, vol. 10. p. 169. 



Frutex ramosus, ramulis angulatisy pilosis. Folia lanceolata.mucronata 



marginibus recurvis^ subtHs sericea. Floras punicei, exths pubescentes , 



calyce barbd longd albd intus vestito. Pistilla glabra. 



This beautiful species is very nearly related to G. sericea, 

 with which it was confounded by Sir James Smith ; but 

 from which it differs in the greater length of the j)istillum, 

 and the much longer beard which clothes the inside of 

 each division of the calyx. We scarcely know a more 

 desirable greenhouse plant. 



Our drawing was made from a speciinen obligingly 

 communicated by Mr. Mackay, of Clapton, in June 1829. 



Mr. Brown characterises it by the want of a mucro 

 to the leaves; a circumstance in which it would, there- 

 fore, differ from G. sericea : but we do not find any varia- 



this particular between the two plants 



A branching shrub 



Leaves 



mucronate 



with angular, hairy twigs. -Leave 

 recurved at the edges, silky beneath 



Flowers deep purple, downy outside; the calyx clothed 



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rnally with a long white beard. PistUlinn smooth 



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Named in honour of tli 

 promoter of Natural History. 



