bright-red, merging into yellow in the upper half. In Australia 
it flowers throughout the whole year. 
Descr. Old dranches ashy-brown and glabrous, younger ones 
pubescent. Leaves copious, patent, often reflexed, scattered, four 
to six lines long, three lines broad, generally elliptical, but more 
or less approaching to ovate, sometimes narrow oblong, recurved 
at the margin, pubescent on both sides, dark green above, pale 
beneath. Heads or corymbs of flowers umbellate. Pedicels 
short, thick, downy. Perianth scarcely an inch long, including 
the curvature, downy, or even subhispid, brick-red, gradually 
passing into yellow in the upper half; the ¢vée is inflated below ; 
the /obes are unequal. Anthers sessile, lodged in the cavity of the 
lobes. Ovary and style densely clothed with erect hairs, as is the 
gland at the base. Stigma very large, orbicular, peltate, umbi- 
licate in the centre, lateral. Fol/icle, according to Dr. Mueller, 
“ ellipsoid, downy or villose, six to eight lines long, beaked with 
the persistent style. Seeds narrow, ellipsoid, smooth, three to 
four lines long, one broad, blackish-brown, void of gloss, convex 
on the back, channelled by the inflexed margins on the opposite 
side.” Slight varieties are mentioned both by Drs. Meisner and ~ 
Mueller, and the latter notices its affinity with the well-known 
Grevillea canescens, Br. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
