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GREVILLEyi* concmna. 

 Neat Grevillea. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. ProteacejE Jussieu. — {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 68.) 



GREVILLEA.— Suprd, vol. 6. fol. 443. 



G. concinna ; foliis linearibus indivisis (fruticis juvenilis passim trifidis pinna- 

 tifidisve) margine revolutis : adultis super glabratis ; subter ramisque 

 sericeis pilis appressis, racemis recurvis secundis multifloris, stylis gla- 

 berrimis perianthio sericeo duplo longioribus, stigmate dilatato planius- 

 culo obliquo. R. Brown suppl. prim, prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 18. 

 G. concinna, R. Brown prodr. \.p. 377. Sweet Flora australasica, t. 7. 



Frutex, ramis cinereo-tomentosis, pariim angulatis. Folia linearia, mar- 

 gine revoluta, mucronulata, scepiils indivisa, nunc apice bifida v. trifida, {in 

 plantdjuniore 3-5-partita), suprd, primum villosa, subinde pilis rar is obsita, 

 demum glabra, subtits dens^ pilosa. Kacemi pedunculati, tomentosi, secundi, 

 recurvi. Calyces rosei, extus sericei, intils impubes. Glandula hypogyna 

 pateriformis. Ovarium villosum ; stylus glaber, apicalis, calyce triplo 

 longiore. 



A native of the neighbourhood of Lucky Bay, on the 

 south-western coast of New Holland, and of Lewin's Land, 

 growing in barren places. It has been some years intro- 

 duced to this country, and is now occasionally observed in 

 collections of greenhouse plants. It is not particularly 

 distinguished for its beauty. Our drawing was made in 

 Mr. ColvilFs Nursery, in May last. 



This plant varies very much in the degree of division of 

 its foliage, the leaves being on the old branches either 

 entirely or very nearly undivided, and on the young plant 

 pinnatifid ; a difference so striking, that a person unac- 



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