‘Tas. 8741. 
GREVILLEA OLEOIDES. 
New South Wales. — 
- Prorgeaceag. Tribe GREVILLEEAR. 
Grevitiea, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 180. 
Grevillea oleoides, Sich. in Roem. et Schult. Syst. vol. iii. Mant. p. 277; 
R. Br. Prot. Nov. p. 17; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, vol. xiv. p. 853; Reichb. 
Icon. Exot. t. 104; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 468; affinis G. puniceae, 
R. Br., sed foliis longioribus et plerumque angustioribus, inflorescentiis 
subsessilibus differt. eae 
Frutex erectus; ramuli adpresse sericeo-tomentosi, apicem versus foliati. 
- Folia inferiora 3-nata, intermedia geminata, superiora solitaria, linearia,. 
basin versus sensim attenuata, apice acute apiculata, 6-9 cm. longa, 0°3- 
0'7 cm. lata, supra viridia, minute punctata, infra sericeo-velutina, 
-argentea. Racemt capituliformes, ramulos laterales breves terminantes, 
fere sessiles, circiter 12-flori; pedicelli 0°5 cm. longi, sericeo-pubescentes. 
Perianthium kermesinum, extra tenuiter sericeum, intus superne dense 
barbatum, tubo 1-2 cm. longo infra limbum obliquum revoluto. Antherae 
1 mm. longae, subsessiles. Glandula semiannularis, crassa, carnosa. 
Ovarium stipitatum, glabrum ; stylus longe exsertus, 3 cm. longus, apicem 
versus sensim latior, stigmate oblique orbiculari_ plano coronatus.— 
- Grevillea Seymouriae, Sweet ex Meisn. l.c. 354.—J. HurcHinson. 
The Grevillea here described, G. oleoides, is a native of 
New South Wales, where it is a common shrub in sandy 
_ places in the bush. The plant from which material for 
our figure was obtained was raised at Kew from seeds 
purchased in 1910 from Messrs. J. Staer and Company, 
Wahroonga, New South Wales. It grows well and 
flowers readily in an ordinary greenhouse under the 
treatment suitable for the nearly allied G. punicea, R. Br., 
figured at t. 6698 of this work, and like that species is a 
_ desirable decorative conservatory plant. The charac- — 
teristic arrangement of the leaves, in groups of three near 
_ the bases of the leafy stems, higher up in pairs, near 
the apex solitary, is due to the production of abbreviated 
axillary lateral shoots. In wild specimens the leaves of 
_ G. oleoides exhibit considerable variation in size, from _ 
long and rigidly linear with strongly revolute margins to — 
Decenen, 1917, 
