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GREVILLEJ* punicea. 

 Scarlet Grevillea. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Proteace^. 



GREVILLEA. — Suprd, vol. 6. fol. 443. 



G. punicea ; foliis elliptico-oblongis basi subattenuatis marginibus refractis, 

 ramulis floriferis racemoque abbreviato recurvis, barba interiore peri- 

 anthii oblonga dimidium inferius unguium sequante, pistillis uncialibus. 

 R. Brown prodr. 1. 232. ed. Germ. 



Embothrium sericeum ^. Smith New Hall. 25. t. 9. f. 5. /3. 



Lyssanthe speciosa. Knight et Salisb. prat. p. 118 ? 



Grevillea punicea. Brown in Linn, trans, vol. 10. p. 169. 



Frutex ramosus, ramulis angulatis, pilosis. Folia lanceolata,mucronata, 



marginibus recurvis, subtils sericea. Flores punicei, extils pubescentes ; 



calyce barbd longd alba intus vestito. Pistilla glabra. 



This beautiful species is very nearly related to G. sericea, 

 with which it was confounded by Sir James Smith ; but 

 from which it differs in the greater length of the pistillum, 

 and the much longer beard which clothes the inside of 

 each division of the calyx. We scarcely know a more 

 desirable greenhouse plant. 



Our drawing was made from a specimen obligingly 

 communicated by Mr. Mackay, of Clapton, in June 1829. 



Mr. Brown characterises it by the want of a mucro 

 to the leaves ; a circumstance in which it would, there- 

 fore, differ from G. sericea ; but we do not find any varia- 

 tion in this particular between the two plants. 



A branching shrub, with angular, hairy twigs. Leaves 

 lanceolate, mucronate, recurved at the edges, silky beneath. 

 Flowers deep purple, downy outside ; the calyx clothed 

 internally with a long white beard. Pistillum smooth. 



* Named in honour of the Right Hon. Charles Francis Greville, a great 

 promoter of Natural History. 



