598 GRABOWSKIA GREVILLEA 



year, but grow longer. Leaves alternate, grey, fleshy; roundish, widely 

 ovate or obovate ; i to i| ins. long, f to i-J ins. wide ; wavy at the margin, 

 tapering at the base, smooth ; stalk ^ in. or less long. Flowers f in. long 

 and wide, produced in May, sometimes singly on a short stalk in the 

 leaf-axils, sometimes in terminal or axillary racemes i in. long; corolla 

 pale blue, tubular at the base, spreading to five reflexed lobes ; calyx J in. 

 long, bell-shaped, with five angular teeth. 



Native of Brazil and Peru; introduced in 1780, but rarely seen. 

 Near London it requires the protection of a south wall. The foliage 

 resembles that of Atriplex Halimus, and the flowers are like those of 

 Lycium chinense. It has been associated with the Lyciums, but differs 

 in the fruit, wtrich we rarely or never see. Named in honour of 

 Dr Grabowski, a Silesian botanist of the eighteenth century. It has 

 little more than botanical interest. 



GREVILLEA. PROTEACE^:. 



The two species described below are the hardiest members of the 

 remarkable order of plants to which they belong, and which, in a wild 

 state, is confined to the southern hemisphere. In Grevillea, the flowers 

 have no petals, the calyx is more or less deeply four-divided, bearing the 

 anthers at the concave apex of each division. Both the species are 

 somewhat tender. Propagated by half-ripened shoots taken about July, 

 and placed in a frame with a little bottom heat. They enjoy a proportion 

 of peat in the soil. 



G. ROSMARINIFOLIA, A. Cunningham. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 5971.) 



An evergreen shrub of loose, graceful habit, 6 or 7 ft. high, with slender, 

 downy branches. Leaves alternate, closely set on the branches, very like 

 those of rosemary ; i to 2 ins. long, averaging \ in. wide ; stalkless, pointed, 

 dark grey-green and rough above, covered beneath with closely pressed 

 silvery hairs. Flowers deep rosy red, densely arranged in terminal racemes, 

 each flower I in. or less long, on a smooth stalk j in. long. Calyx silky inside, 

 scarcely \ in. long, with hooked divisions, two long and two short, in the 

 apex of each of which is enclosed an anther ; styles about f in. long, red. 



Native of N.S. Wales ; discovered by Allan Cunningham in 1822. Near 

 London this shrub will only survive mild winters, but it succeeds and flowers 

 well in the Grayswood Hill garden, Haslemere. In Cornwall it is quite at 

 home, and makes fine bushes 6 or 7 ft. high, and as much or more through. 



G. SULPHUREA, A. Cunningham. 



(G. juniperina var. sulphur ea, Bentham.") 



An evergreen bush of sturdy habit, probably 6 ft. high ultimately ; young 

 shoots very downy. Leaves linear or needle-like ; ^ to i in. long, ^ to ^ in. 

 wide, made narrower by the curling back of the margins ; prickly pointed, pale 

 beneath, smooth except for a few appressed hairs beneath when young ; produced 

 in alternate, closely set tufts. Flowers pale yellow, produced during May and 



