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Tas. 6040. 
GREYIA SUTHERLANDI. 
Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. Saprnpace®.—Sub-order MELIANTHE. 
Genus Grevia, Hook. and Harv. ; (Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. P1., vol.i. p. 100). 
Greyia Sutherlandi ; Hook. and Harv. in Harvey Thesaurus Capensis, t. 1. 
Harvey and Sonder Flor. Cap., vol. ii. p. 308; Harvey Gen. S. African 
Plants., ed. 2, p- 62. 
This singular and beautiful plant, which was raised by 
Dr. Moore from seed introduced into the Glassnevin Gardens’ 
about the year 1859, has been so extensively distributed both 
by himself and from Kew, that it is now one of the commonest 
plants in European Botanic Gardens. Singularly enough, 
though growing very freely and even luxuriantly in our green- 
houses, it had never flowered in Europe, except (I believe) in 
the south of France, till March of the present year, when a 
small plant in a 6-inch pot, in the Chelsea Botanic Gardens, 
having been starved for the purpose, threw off all its leaves, 
and put forth instead a raceme of coral-like buds, which the 
curator, Mr. Thomas Moore, was good enough to communt- 
cate to me for figuring in the Botanical Magazine. ‘This, 
though much inferior as to its inflorescence to the wild 
specimens (which bear upwards of 100 flowers in racemes 
pete to three inches in diameter) is so characteristic, that I 
gladly take the opportunity of figuring it. 
Greyia Sutherld adi rage a eat tree at Port Natal, 
described by its discoverer, Dr. Sutherland, the Surveyor- 
General of the colony and an ardent naturalist, as growing n 
clefts of much exposed headlands, at elevations of 2000 to 
6000 feet, in the Drakenburg mountains, and flowering in 
August and September (early spring). It was named after 
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor-General of the Cape 
Colony at the time of its discovery. 
JUNE Ist, 1873. 
