Tas. 8510. 
GREVILLEA BIPINNATIFIDA. 
rm 
fest Australia. 
PROTEACEAE. Tribe GREVILLEEAE. 
Grevinuxa, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol; iii. p. 180. 
Grevillea bipinnatifida, Rk. Br. Prot. Nov. p. 23; Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. vol. i. 
p. 541, et in DC. Prodr, vol. xiv. p. 376; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. Vv. p. 439; 
species foliis bipinnatifidis racemis secundis laxis floribus magnis distincta. 
Frutex diffusus vel prostratus, circiter 1 m. altus; rami subflexuosi, costati, 
appresse tomentosi vel fere glabri, internodi plerumque 8-4 cm. longi. 
Folia bipinnatifida, petiolata, 7-15 em. longa (petiolo incluso), 9-12 cm. 
lata, viridia, supra glabra, reticulata, infra parce pilosa vel glabra; lobi 
utrinque 5-10, pinnatilobi vel rarius grosse dentati, lobis ovato-triangu- 
laribus abrupte longe spinoso-acuminatis margine cartilagineis; petioli 
usque ad 5 em. longi, anguste alati. Racemi solitarii vel plures in 
paniculo terminali dispositi, secundi, ad 15 em. longi; rhachis pubescens 
vel tomentosa ; pedicelli mox reflexi, 6-10 mm. longi, molliter pubescentes 
vel tomentosi. Perianthiwm rubrum, extra molliter pubescens, intra 
glabrum; tubus 0°7-1°2 cm. longus, infra medium dilatatus et sub- 
gibbosus, sub limbo attenuatus et revolutus; limbus late ovatus, apice 
mucronatus, inflexus. Antherae 1°5 mm. longae. Glandula transverse 
oblonga, carnosa, glabra. Ovarium sessile, obliquum, tomentosum ; stylus 
longe exsertus, 8-4°5 cm. longus, breviter pubescens; discus stigma- 
ticus late obliquus.—J. HUTCHINSON. 
The Grevillea now figured, G. bipinnatifida, R. Br., 1s a 
native of rocky localities in the neighbourhood of the Swan 
River in Western Australia, and among the many species 
of the genus in cultivation in Europe it is one of the most 
ornamental, not only on account of the beauty of its flowers, 
but also because of the charm of its foliage. The species 1s 
perhaps most closely related to G. Gaudichaudi, R. Br., 
and to G. acanthifolia, A. Cunn., both of which are natives 
of and endemic to New South Wales, and therefore geogra- 
phically widely separated from our plant. Neither of these 
eastern species is sO attractive as G. bipinnatifida. The 
material for our plate has been derived from a plant 
which was raised from seed received at Kew in 1909 from 
the Adelaide Botanic Garden. This plant is now a shrub 
some three feet high and leafy to the base. The first 
flowers appeared in December, 1912. 
Avaeust, 1913. 
