Tab. 5870. 

 GREVILLEA Banksii. 



Sir Joseph Banks Grevillea. 



Nat. Ord. Proteace^e. — Tetrandria Monogvnia. 

 Gen. Char. ( Vide supra, Tab. 58.37.) 



Grevillea (Eugrevillea) Banksii ; ramulis robustis et inflorescentia albo- 

 tomentosis, foliis 4-8-pollicaribus profunde pinnatisectis, segmentis 

 remotis anguste lineari-lanceolatis obtusis v. mucronatis marginibus 

 recurvis supra glabris subtus sericeo-tomentosis, racemis terminalibus 

 solitariis v. subpaniculatis, perianthio rubro extus tomentoso, tubo 

 breviusculo inflato apice revoluto, ore contracto, toro subrecto, ovario 

 sessili villoso, stylo elongato glabro apice clavato, stigmate obliquo v. 

 laterali convexo, fructu oblique ovoideo subacute compresso. 



Grevillea Banksii, Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. x. p. 176. Prod. p. 379. 

 Bauer, III. PI. Nov. Holl., t. 9. Meissn. in DC. Prod., vol. xiv. p. 375. 

 Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p. 435. 



In its robust shrubby habit, and stout raceme of large 

 flowers, this forms a strange contrast to the delicate looking 

 and feathery-foiiaged G. Preissii figured in the early part of 

 this volume (Tab. 5837), and is one of many instances of the 

 remarkable differences in habit displayed by various members 

 of many of the large Australian genera. It forms a tall 

 shrub or slender tree, of fifteen to twenty feet in height, and 

 when covered with its scarlet blossoms, must present a mag- 

 nificent appearance in the Australian bush. The genus to 

 which it belongs contains upwards of one hundred and fifty 

 species, of which all but two or three (New Caledonian) mem- 

 bers belong to Australia ; many are as deserving of cultiva- 

 tion as that here figured, but like most Australian bard- 

 wooded plants they require a peculiar treatment, so different 

 from that of ordinary greenhouse stock of the present day, 

 that as a rule they are usually rapidly killed by mistaken 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



