Tas. 5919. 
GREVILLEA INTRICATA, 
Native of Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Proreacea.—Tribe GREVILLES. 
Genus Grevitiea, R. Br. ; (Benth. Fl. Austral,, vol. iv. p. 417). 
GREVILLEA intricata ; fruticosa, ramulis gracilibus, novellis floribusque sparse 
sericeis ceterum glaberrima, foliis elongatis gracilibus bis terve 3-natim 
divisis, segmentis remotis divaricatis lineari-subulatis v. filiformibus 
teretiusculis rigidis acutis sulcatis, racemis terminalibus et lateralibus 
gracile pedunculatis, pedicellis filiformibus, perianthio gracili revoluto, 
limbo (inaperto) globoso, toro recto eglanduloso, stylo recto, stigmate 
conico. 
GREVILLEA intricata, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot., vol. vii. p. 745 et in 
DC. Prod, vol. xiv. p. 8387. Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. iv. p. 481. 
A very slender plant, native of the warmer parts of South- 
Western Australia, at the Murchison river and Champion 
Bay, where it was discovered in 1855 by T. Drummond, and 
found later by Messrs. Oldfield and Burges ; the former of 
whom describes it as a bushy white-flowered shrub, six to 
ten feet high, growing in rocky places. In its wiry habit, 
curious foliage, small flowers, and pale colour, it little re- 
sembles the species of Grevil/ea in ordinary cultivation, and 
affords a conspicuous instance of those great differences in 
habit, and those variations in foliage and inflorescence, &c., 
that all the large Australian genera present. The hooked 
tips of the young leaf-segments, which spread like bird’s- 
claws, would suggest that this plant was a climber; and 
though there is no evidence of this, it is quite conceivable 
that, under special circumstances, it might become so, since, 
though described as a rigid, erect shrub in its dry, rocky, 
native soil, it assumes a lax growth, with pendulous branches, 
auGust Ist, 1871. 
