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[Plate 56.] 
THE ROSY GEEYILLEA. 
(GREVILLEA ROSEA.) 
A Greenhouse Shrub, from New Holland, helongxng to the Natural Order o/Proteads 
^jjrrific Cl^aractrr. 
THE ROSY GREVILLEA. Leaves simple, linear-lanceo- 
late, rolled back at the edge, pungent, rather scabrous 
above, covered with a silky down on the under side. 
Clusters terminal, few-flowered. Calyx rose-coloured, 
silky, twice as short as the smooth style. Stigma oblique, 
depressed. Ovary stalked, shaggy. Follicle oval, mu- 
cronate, tomentose. 
GREVILLEA ROSEA (Lissostylis) ; foliis simpUcibus 
lineari-lanceolatis margiue revolutis pungeutibus supra 
subasperis subtus pube adpressA sericeis, fasciculis ter- 
minalibus paucifloris, calycibus roseis sericeis stylis gla- 
berrimis duplo brevioribus, stigmate obliquo depreaao, 
ovario stipitato villoso, folliculo ovali mucronato toniea- 
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toso. 
HIS very pretty greenhouse shnib was sent us some months since by the Messrs. Henderson, of 
Pine-apple Place, with no information as to the source from wliich it was derived. We find, 
however, a specimen in our Herbarium, collected in South Australia, which we owe to the kindness 
of His Excellency Governor Hutt. 
It forms a neat compact bush, loaded with rich rose-coloured flowers, as large as those of 
"•arded as one of the most useful species in cultivation. The leaves are 
must 
variable in breadth ; in the specimen here represented they were quite Hnear ; in another, which forms 
the vignette to this article, they were tluree times as broad, and but Uttle turned back at the edge ; 
in Mr. Hutt's specimens both kinds of leaf are on the same branch. In aU cases they axe scabrous 
above and terminated by a sharp spine. The calyx is covered with close hairs on the outside, 
especiaUyat the point; the ovary is stalked, shaggy but not wooUy, and has a concave smooth 
shallow ffland at the base: the style, which is twice as long as the calyx 
downy and even hairy as the ovary is approached. The stigm 
oblong. 
with 
The fruit is brittle^ oval, 
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