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REVILLEA CANESCENS. Hoary GREVILLEA. 
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Class and Order. 
TrerranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Proreaceg, ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium irregulare; foliolis laciniisve secundis ; api- 
cibus cavis staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula 
gyna unica dimidiata. Ovarium dispermum. Stigma 
obliquum, depressum, (raro subverticale, conicum.) Fol- 
liculus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo centrali. Semina 
marginata, v. apice brevissime alata. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Grevitiea (Prycnocarpa) canescens ; foliis oblongo-obo- 
vatis obtusis mucronulatis, super pubescentibus molli- 
bus, subter velutinis incanis pilorum cruribus adscen- 
dentibus, racemis recurvis, perianthiis sericeis laminis 
acutis, pistillis tomentosis. Br. 
REVILLEA canescens. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl. p. 18. 
REVILLEA cinerea. Cunningh. in Field’s N. S. Wales, p. 
329. (non Br. Prodr.) 
Descr. A much-branched, large shrub, with telat 
ash-coloured branches. Leaves alternate, upon extremely 
iort petioles an inch and a half long, oblongo-obovate, 
ther coriaceous, entire, obtuse, mucronate, pubescent, 
green above, beneath very downy and pale grey. Racemes 
terminating the branches, very downy, often bent down, 
icels retflexed. Perianth pale green, hoary with a dense 
own, of which the hairs are not appressed, curved like a 
orse-shoe, swollen towards the apex, and then suddenl 
d much acuminated so as to resemble the head and be 
a bird, separated on the upper-side by a fissure reaching 
own to the base; at the extremity it chiefly opens by a 
