white suberect hairs; germen with long erect hairs. Disk pouting 
below, yellow, glabrous, nectariferous. 
Poprunar anp GeocrapHicat Notice. The species of Grevillea 
are generally low shrubs, but Grevillea robusta has, on the banks of 
the Brisbane River, a trunk nine feet in circumference, and from 80 
to 100 feet in height. The following brief notices are from among the 
interesting observations made by Brown, on the geographical distribu- 
tion of the Proteacee. The order is almost entirely confined to the 
southern hemisphere, yet is there much extended in latitude, longi- 
tude, and elevation. In South America the species are comparatively 
few, little varied in structure, and have a greater affinity with those of 
New Holland than with those of Africa. They are met with in every 
known part of the shores of New Holland, but both there and in Africa 
species are comparatively few on the south coast, and much more 
numerous at the south-west extremity than at the eastern extremity of 
the principal parallel: yet the diminution towards the tropic is more 
rapid in passing from the south-western than from the eastern ex- 
tremity, and within the tropic on the east coast no genus has been 
observed which does not occur beyond it, but several genera which do 
not exist in the principal parallel, are found at the southern boundary 
of the order. There is no species of the order common to the 
east and west coast of New Holland, the latter approaching some- 
what more nearly to the Proteacee of Africa, the former to those of 
America. The genus Grevillea especially abounds on the east coast. 
In New Holland the range of species in the Order is very limited, 
with a very few exceptions, which are natives of the shores and mem- 
bers of large genera. Very few of the Proteacee are gregarious; 
almost all the species are scattered, growing for the most part in 
stony places, occasionally in loose sand; scarcely any require shelter, 
and none good soil; a few grow in be. or shallow pools of water. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. The seeds of this 
shrub were seceived at the Royal Botaiie eae Edinburgh, from 
the late Mr. Richard Cunningham, under the name given, in 1835. 
He did not say from what part of New Holland they had been obtain- 
ed, but we learn from Mr. Brown that it is a native of the neighbour- 
hood of Port Jackson. It flowered very freely for the first time, with 
the usual treatment in the greenhouse, when under four feet high, in 
November, 1837, and continued to do so during the whole winter. It 
flowered at the same season last year, and again now, October, 1839. 
ts BER OF THE NaMEs. 
The genus was named ¥ Mr. Brown in commemoration of the Right Hon. 
Charles Francis Greville, aides to the ws Earl of Warwick. 
GREVILLEA FERRUGINEA, Sieb. Herb. 1 Nov. Holland, No, 27. _— ti 
Veget, Cur. post. 46. Br, Prodr. Suppl. Primum, 19. Gra 
