Tas. 7070. 
G REVILLEA ASPLENIIFOLIA, 
Native of New South Wales. 
Nat. Ord. Protrace®.—Tribe Greviz EER. 
Genus GREVILLEA, Brown ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 180.) 
GreviLLEA (Hebegyne) aspleniifolia; frutex gracilis v. arbuscula, ramulis 
novellis sericeo-puberulis, foliis elongato-lineari-lanceolatis acutis mucro- 
natisve integerrimis serratis pinnatifidisve, supra glabris penninerviis, 
subtus albo- v. fulvo-sericeis enerviis costa prominula, racemis 1-2- 
pollicaribus sessilibus v. pedunculatis terminalibus v. in axillis supremis, 
floribus secundis breviter pedicellatis rachi perianthioque extus tomen- 
tosis, perianthii tubo angusto limbo revoluto subgloboso, toro recto, 
glandula semi-annulari, ovario subsessili villoso, stylo gracili glabro, 
stigmate obliquo convexo. 
G. aspleniifolia, Knight on Cult. of Protew, p. 120; Brown in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vol. x. p. 175; Prodr. p. 379 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 376; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 435, 
G. longifolia, Brown Prot. Nov. p. 22; Meissn. 1. ce. 
G. Van Houtteana, Hort. 
It is much to be wished that the cultivation of the more 
beautiful and singular Proteacew of the Cape and Australia, 
which may be said to have been in abeyance for nearly a 
century, should be resumed. Miller in his “ Gardener’s 
Dictionary,’ Ed. 1770, has only three species. Aiton in 
the first edition of ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis ” (1789) enumerates 
sixty-four, and in the second (1811) this is increased to 
114, The late J. Smith, who was Curator of the Royal 
Gardens from 1822 to 1864, states in his interesting 
“Records of the Royal Botanic Gardens” that of the 
sixty-four species which are recorded in the first edition 
of “ Hortus Kewensis,” forty of that number were in 1823 
living in the garden, since which (that is, between 1823 
and 1864) the Kew collection had been increased to 154. 
The number now is short of this (about 120), the Cape 
species being fewer in number; they are, however, replaced 
in point of horticultural interest by handsomer Australian 
species. 
Grevillea aspleniifolia is a native of various parts of the 
colony of New South Wales. The first specimens sent to 
England were from Caley, who was directed to proceed to 
Aveust lst, 1889. 
