Tab. 6361. 

 GREVILLEA ericifolia. 

 Native of Hast and South Australia. 



Nat. Ord. Pboteace^:. — Tribe Greviixee.«. 

 Genus Grevillea, Br. (Benth. Flor. Austral, vol. iv. p. 417). 



Grevillea (Ptychocarpa) ericifolia; frutex gracilis ramosus diffusus v. suberectus, 

 ramulis foliisque pilosis v. pubescentibus, foliis sessilibus patulis linearibus 

 acuminatis rigidis v. flaccidis longe acuminatis marginibus recurvis, racemis 

 terminalibus brevibus paucifloris pedunculatis decurvis v. pendulis, pedicellis 

 gracilibus, periantbii glabri intus barbati tubo \ poll, longo brevi late gibbo 

 infra limbum revolutum obliqunm constricto, toro erecto, glandula lata semicn- 

 culari, ovario sessile dense villoso, stylo crasso elongato, stigmate laterali. 



G. ericifolia, Br. Prot, Nov. Boll. p. 20. Meissn. in DG. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 3fi5. 



Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. v. p. 444. 

 G. Latrobei, Meissn. in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 539, et in DC. 1. c. p. 364. 



This and the equally beautiful little Grevillea Thelemanniana, 

 Endl. (G. Preissii. Meissn. Tab. nostr. 5837), have proved 

 very attractive ornaments both in the conservatory and 

 temperate house of Kew for some years past, forming neat 

 pot plants, flowering in midwinter, and remaining for several 

 weeks in flower. They are examples of avast number of 

 beautiful and interesting greenhouse plants still to be in- 

 troduced into cultivation from Australia, whose once prized 

 relatives have been elbowed out of cultivation by " soft- 

 wooded » greenhouse plants of greater show but less grace 

 and interest. Of the genus Grevillea alone there are upwards 

 of one hundred and fifty species, amongst which are some 

 of great beauty. . . 



G. ericifolia was raised from seeds sent by our indefati- 

 gable correspondent Baron Von Mueller, F.K.S., of whom it 

 is not too much to say that he is the greatest Colonial 

 Botanist that has ever lived, alike eminent as a traveller, a 



MAY 1st, 1878. 



