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flowered, pedunculate, drooping, with centripetal development; flowers 

 after the anthesis reclinate ; calyx four or five times longer than the 

 pedicel, red, externally grey-downy, inside below the middle white- 

 bearded ; style exserted, towards the summit puberulous, at last smooth ; 

 germen stalked, glabrous ; stigma sublateral, ovate, a little umbonate ; 

 follicle oblique-ovate. 



Hab. On the crest of the sterile wooded ranges near IMount M'Mil- 

 lan, and along the upper valleys of the Avon in Gipps' Land. 



This rare and handsome species has been dedicated to the illustrious 

 botanist Miquel, who, as he participates in the labours to elucidate the 

 Australian plants, is so well entitled to this distinction. 



158, Grevillea confertifolia (Sect. Lmostylis), F. Muell.; diiFuse ; 

 twigs pubescent ; leaves crowded, linear-subulate, even, short-mucro- 

 nate, above smooth, beneath with the innovations silky; margins refract « 

 to the middle nerve, which is prominent on both sides ; fascicules of 

 flowers sessile, terminal, concealed by the leaves ; calyx outside and its 

 pedicel grey-silky, inside at the middle densely bearded ; pistil hardly 

 half an inch long, smooth, exserted ; germen stipitate ; stigma ovate, 

 oblique-terminal, with central papilla. 



Hab. On the subalpine summit of Mount William, and on rocky 



ridges towards Mount Zero. 



This species resembles Grevillea juniperina and G. riparia (K. Br. 



Prodr. 377). 



159. Grevillea Mata (Sect. Eugrevillea), F. MuelL; high, upright, 

 many-branched ; twigs spreading, angular, covered with a very thin, 

 whitish indument; leaves in shape ovate, deeply lachiiate, venose, 

 with hardly recurved margin, contracted by a wedge-shaped basis into 

 the stalk, above pale green, glabrescent, beneath tomentose, as are the 

 branches; segments two or three on both sides, distant, lanceolate, 

 mucronate, entire, rarely teeth-bearing ; racemes dense, ovate, many- 

 flowered, at length drooping; calyx outside as well as pedicels and 

 rachis grey from an appressed indument, inside smooth ; style long, 

 exserted, with exception of the base smooth 5 hypogyne gland very 

 short ; stigma oblique-lateral, broad-ovate, centrally umbonate ; germen 

 and its stipes white-tomentellous. 



Hab. In the desert along the Murray River, from Swan Hill to the 



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westward. 

 Nearest to Grevillea ilicifolia (R. Br. Suppl. p. 21), but much taller. 



