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REVILLEA ROBUSTA. GIGANTIC GREVILLEA. 
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Class and Order. 
TerranpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Proreacea, ) 
Generic Character. 
__Perianthium ivregulare; foliolis laciniisve secundis ; api- 
cibus cavis staminiferis; anthere immerse.  Glandula 
Nypogyna unica dimidiata. Ovariwm dispermum, Stigma 
liquum depressum, (raro subyerticale, conicum.) Fol- 
liculus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo centrali. Semina 
marginata, v. apice brevissime alata. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
| Greviniea robusta ; foliis bipinnatifidis laciniis acutis: su- — 
per glabris venosis subter canescentibus, racemis paui- — 
culatis, perianthiis pistillisque glaberrimis, stigmate e — 
__ basi dilatato oblique conico. Br. : 
Grevittea robusta. Cunningham MSS. Br. Prodr. Suppl. 
p. 24. 
JREVILLEA venusta. Cunningham MSS. (non Br. Prodr.) 
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_Descr. This forms a gigantic tree, eighty to one hun-— 
dred feet in height, bearing numerous reddish-brown, dense, 
Tecurved branches, clothed with long bipinnated, rather 
‘Tigid, somewhat coriaceous leaves, dark green above, and 
glabrous, pale and silky with appressed hairs beneath; the 
8 leaves silky all over. Racemes branched at their 
e, hence somewhat panicled, elongated. Flowers slen- 
r, unilateral, longer than the pedicels, glabrous, tawny 
orange; lacinie curved, spathulate. _ : 
For the drawing of this plant, which was made from a 
Native specimen, (having never flowered in this cpantre aS 
