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Tas. 6105, 
GREVILLEA FASCICULATA, 
Native of West Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Proteacem.—Tribe GReviILLEs. 
Genus Grevitira, R. Br. ; (Benth. Fl. Austr., vol. v. p. 41 7). 
GREVILLEA (Plagiopoda) fasciculata; frutex, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis 
pollicaribus sesquipollicaribusve sessilibus vel brevissime petiolatis 
oblongo- vel oblanceolato-linearibus acutis margine revolutis supra 
scabro-punctatis, racemis terminalibus axillaribusve sessilibus pauci- 
floris, perianthii pilosiusculi tubo basi gibboso sub limbo globoso 
reflexo, fauce pilis reflexis transverse barbata, disci valde obliqui glan- 
dula latissima truncata, ovario stipitato piloso, stigmate obliquo crasso 
concavo glabro. 
Grevitira fasciculata, R. Br. Suppl., p. 20; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss., vol. i. 
p. 536; DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 369; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p. 449. 
G. Meissneriana, F. Muell. in Linnea, vol. xxvi. p. 857 3 Meissn. Le. p. 360. 
G. aspera var. linearis, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss., vol. i. p. 537. 
A native of Western Australia, from King George’s Sound 
to the Swan River. It was discovered on the south-west 
Shore of the former place in 1829, by D. Baxter. The 
specimen figured was from a Swan River plant, flowered by 
Mr. Wilson Saunders, at Reigate, in May, 1873. _ 
Duscr. A low and prostrate or erect shrub, attaining three to 
four feet. Branches slender, erect, more or less fasciculate, leafy, 
terete, youngest pubescent. Zeaves three-quarters to one and 
a-half inches long, sessile, or very nearly so, acute, some- 
what variable in form from oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate 
and linear, rather rigid with revolute margins, upper surface 
minutely scabrous-punctate, lower silky and pale brown. 
Racemes or fascicles few-flowered, sessile, axillary and terminal 
on the lateral shoots. Flowers bright red with yellow tips, 
pedicels about half their length. Perianth a quarter to a 
third of an inch long, sac-like and gibbous at the base, con- 
tracted and revolute below the yellow limb, the tube furnished 
internally on the superior side with a transverse beard of 
JUNE Ist, 1874, 
