Tas. 6687. 
GREVILLEA ANNULIFERA. 
Native of Western Australia, 
Nat. Ord. Prorracem.—Tribe GREVILLEZ. 
Genus Grevittes, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 180.) 
GREVILLEA (Cycladenia) annulifera; frutex glaberrimus, foliis pinnatis, segmentis 
5-11 remotis divaricatis anguste linearibus rigidis pungentibus marginibus 
revolutis subtus 2-sulcatis, racemis laxe multifloris breviter pedunculatis 
solitariis paniculatisve, floribus gracile breviter pedicellatis flayis, perianthio 
brevi glaberrimo intus basi subvilloso segmentis angustis revolutis apicibus 
dilatatis, toro pulvinari, ovario longe stipitato glaberrimo, stylo longissimo, 
stigmate disciforme laterali. 
G. annulifera, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. iv. p. 85; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. 
p- 460. 
A rigid wiry-leaved shrub, characteristic of the scrubby 
vegetation of many parts of Australia. It belongs to a small 
section of the large genus Grevillea, which numbers upwards 
of one hundred and sixty species (almost without exception 
natives of that continent), in which the racemes are usually 
panicled and the flowers are not unilateral on the rachis. 
Two species only belong to it, the present and G. leucopteris, 
with tomentose branches and segments of the leaves four 
to ten inches long; both are natives of the Murchison 
River, on the west coast of Australia, a subtropical region. 
G. annulifera was raised from seed sent by Baron 
Mueller in 1880, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in July 
of last year. 
Descr. A shrub six to eight feet high, everywhere 
glabrous or nearly so, and somewhat glaucous ; branches 
stiff, terete. Leaves spreading and recurved, three to five 
inches long, pinnate; segments an inch long, distant, rigid, 
spreading, linear-subulate, pungent, dark green above, 
glaucous beneath with a strong midrib; petiole one-half to 
one inch long. Racemes three to four inches long, shortly 
peduncled, panicled at the end of the branches, subcylindric, 
May Ist, 1883. 
