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stipitato, stylo glabro, stigmatis disco obliquo, folliculo ellipsoideo 

 glabro. 



A small tree, about 16 ft. high, growing on sandhills, with 

 ashy-grey green foliage, and a dense and close silky pubescence 

 slowly wearing off the branches. 



The leaves are all undivided, narrow linear or filiform, shortly 

 petiolate, reaching 18 cm. in length and 1-1-5 mm. in breadth, 

 flattened, grooved underneath on either side of the thick midrib, 

 the tips shortly acuminate and uncinate. 



Eacemes elongated cylindrical, sometimes secund, as many as 

 ten or twelve forming a panicle immediately above the uppermost 

 leaves, but usually exceeded by them, maximum length 10 cm. x 

 1'5 cm. broad, the whole inflorescence densely tomentose with 

 appressed silky hairs. Flowers dense, on pedicels of 1-5-3 mm., 

 perianth recurved below the depressed-globular limb, bearded 

 inside opposite the stipe of the ovary. Torus straight, the gland 

 forming an incomplete ring, ovary glabrous, subglobose, on a stipe 

 of about 1 mm. long springing from the centre of the torus, style 

 glabrous, 6-7 mm. long, stigmatic disc oblique, orbicular, with a 

 thin undulating free margin and raised towards centre. Fruit 

 (immature) ellipsoidal, glabrous, smooth, dark brown, very oblique, 

 having the longer diameter almost transverse to the direction 

 of the stalk and style, the largest 11 x 8 mm., seed winged all 

 round. 



Uaroo and Minderoo, Ashburton Eiver. 



This species closely resembles G. nematophylla F. v. M. in 

 aspect, but differs in its leaves with recurved margins, and in its 

 lateral stigmatic disc, which is associated with a depressed- 

 globular not ovoid perianth limb in the bud. The gland sometimes 

 forms an almost complete ring, indicating an approach to the 

 species in sect. Cycladenia, in which an annular gland and a 

 lateral stigma are found. The value, as a distinguishing character, 

 of the perfectly annular form of the hypogynous gland is probably 

 less than the position of the stipe of the ovary in the centre of the 

 torus, instead of being seated on or close to the margin, so that, 

 as in the majority of the species of Grevillea, there is room for 

 the gland on one side only. In the case of G. eryngioides, in 

 which the gland is described as semicircular, I have found it to 

 form sometimes a complete ring ; but as the ring is, presumably, 

 as a general rule imperfect, the species has been placed in sect. 

 Occidentales, with the generality of which it does not seem to 

 have much in common. Diels has described the same irregularity 

 in the formation of the hypogynous gland in his G. Pardieana, 

 but in the species named, together with G. Leiicadendron, 

 G. Hilliana, and others of sect. Cycloptera, there is a general 

 similarity, although the combinations of the different characters 

 are varied in each species. The recently published G. Berryana 

 Ewart & White," from the North Coolgardie District, shows a 

 general agreement in its floral characters with this intra-tropical 



* Proc. Eoy. Soc. Vict. xxii. (1909), p. 14, pi. 8. 



