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Tas. 6698. 
GREVILLEA ponicea, Br. 
Native of New South Wales. 
Nat. Ord. Proreacrx.—Tribe GREVILLEZ. 
Genus GreviLLEA, Br.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 180.) 
GREVILLEA (Lissostylis) punicea; ramulis gracilibus foliisque subtus et inflorescentia 
sericeis, foliis subsessilibus elliptico-lanceolatis acutis v. obtusis et apiculatis 
costa subtus prominula, floribus ad apicem pedunculi cernuis subumbellatim 
capitatis, pedicellis brevibus, perianthii coccinei tubo angusto sulcato intus 
tomentoso, limbi lobis tubo brevioribus lineari-oblongis revolutis, toro recto, 
ovario glaberrimo gracili stipitato, stylo elongato puberulo, stigmate discoideo. 
G. punicea, Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. x. p. 169, et Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 376; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 354; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 468 ; 
Bot. Reg. t. 1319; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1357 ; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 105. 
LysanTHE speciosa, Knight, Prot. p. 118. 
As is the case with so many beautiful Australian plants, 
this, which was introduced so long ago as 1825, has long 
since been out of cultivation, having shared the fate of the 
“ hard-wooded’’ class of greenhouse and conservatory 
shrubs which require a rather special treatment. It is a 
native of Port Jackson itself, and extends thence westwards 
to the Blue Mountains. Its nearest ally is G. sericea, Br., 
to which G. dubia, Br. (Plate 3798), is referred, and it may 
prove to be only a brilliantly coloured variety of that plant 
with larger flowers and longer styles, the geographical 
area inhabited by them being the same. 
The seeds from which the specimens here figured were 
raised were received by Dr. Schomburgk, of the Adelaide 
Botanical Garden, in 1880, and the plant flowered in March 
of this year in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens. 
Descr. A shrub; branches slender, together with the 
leaves beneath and inflorescence clothed with a fine silky 
pubescence of appressed hairs attached by the middle. 
Leaves alternate, one to two and a half inches long, by one- 
third to two-thirds of an inch broad, oblong or elliptic-. 
JULY Ist, 1883, 
