470 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Grevillea, 
The pink and the yellow-flowered iron are not distinguishable when dry, and 
the red tinge appears to be very va 
SERIES 9. SERICEÆæ.— Flowers numerous in short dense racemes. 
NL Cb i ie x Ei da long. Leaves entire, Species all Eastern. 
104. G. sericea, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. X. 170, Prod. 376. An 
erect spreading or diffuse shrub, the branches rather dude silky- 
ubescent and often angular when young. Leaves very shortly petio- 
te, oblon Liiceoláte or almost linear, ncédialo, with recurved mar- 
gins, to 1 in. long, or twice as long when narrow, glabrous or spar- 
ingly silky above and more or less distinctly penniveined, closely silky- 
long. Perianth more or less x silky- ea ubescent outside, den 
bearded inside about the middle, the tube 2 to nearly 4 lines long, 
mal 
Torus straight. nd semiannular, entire or 2-lobed. Ovary 
duros stipitate ; style rather long, slender, with a large lateral stig- 
tie disk Fruit about 1 in. long.—Meissn. in DC. Pr od. xiv. 994; 
. long. : 
Lodi. Bot. Cab. t. 880; Reichb. le. et Descr. Pl. t. 76; Tniothrüm 
, Sm, Specim, Bot. Nov. Holl. 25, t. 9; Andr. Bot. Rep. t 1 
Embothrium m cytisoides s Cav. Ie, iv. 60, t. 386 ; ‘Grevillea dubia, R. Br. m 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 169, Prod. 376; Meissn. Lc. ; Bot. Mag. t an; 
Lysanthe sericea and L. ¢ ytisifolia, Knight, Prot. 118, 119. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, 
many others. 
n. 98, and 
writ, 
figure to be a narrow-leaved specimen of G. sericea, with Taker ee flowers. " 
T rianth in this "ec ies is rather less slender than in the following ones 2° 
connects “eas with G. pun 
105. G. plait Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 356. A y — 
ing shrub, the young branches densely pubescent or villou 
ver shortly p oblong-lanceolate or almost Maine “obtuse oF 
with a callous point, the margins revolute, 1 to 2 in. tong, th 
abore and distantly ikeike silky-tomentose or villous inl 
: s as w 
outside, bearded inside about the middle, the tube slender, 2 to imd 
long, coin e under the globular limb. Torus straig ve with à 
semiannular. Ovary glabrous, stipitate; style not xit lon 
large lateral Fw A disk. "T 
N. S. Wales. Illawarra, A. Cunningham, Shepherd. — Very near the SPP 
of G. sericea, but more villous, the Saved loger ià d more veined, and the peri — 
pean oat arg more slender. 
