kindness, succumbing under the favourite regimen of too much 

 heat during winter and a perennial drenching with the 

 watering-pot. In a stiff well-drained soil, sparingly watered 

 in the growing season, and hardly at all at other times, they 

 succeed well, give little trouble, and amply repay the cultiva- 

 tor's care. 



Grevillea Banksii is a native of barren hills in the Queens- 

 land colony, where it was discovered by Brown during 

 Flinders' voyage, and has since then been found by various 

 collectors : the plant here figured, which was five feet high, 

 was raised and flowered by Messrs. Osborn of Fulham, who 

 liberally sent it to Kew for figuring in the Magazine in 

 August last. 



Descr. A tall shrub or slender tree of fifteen to twenty 

 feet; branches and inflorescence softly tomentose. Leaves 

 four to eight inches long, deeply pinnatifid or pinnatisect, 

 with three to eleven broadly linear or narrow lanceolate seg- 

 ments, which are obtuse or mucronate, with recurved margins, 

 two to four inches long, glabrous above, silky underneath, 

 the midrib alone prominent or obscurely penniveined ; here 

 and there a small undivided leaf occurs. Racemes terminal, 

 erect, dense, two to four inches long, solitary or two or three 

 on a terminal leafless peduncle. Flowers red. Pedicels three 

 to four lines long, tomentose as well as the rhaches. 

 Perianth tomentose outside, glabrous inside, the tube not 

 very broad, six or seven lines long, contracted and re volute 

 under the limb. Torus straight, or nearly so. Gland pro- 

 minent, semi-annular, more or less lobed or jagged. Ovary 

 sessile, densely villous ; style long and glabrous, clavate 

 under the very oblique or lateral convex stigmatic disk. Fruit 

 obliquely ovate, compressed, almost acute, about one inch 

 long.— -J. D. II 



Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, follicle: — both magnified. 



