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Australian Plants. 



45, Grevillea confertifolia. 



(Sect, lAssostylis.J 



Diffuse ; twigs pubescent ; leaves crowded, linear-subulate, 

 even, short-mucronate, above smooth, beneath with the innova- 

 tions silky ; margin refract to the on both sides prominent 

 middle-nerve ; fascicides of flowers sessile, terminal, concealed 

 by the leaves ; calyx outsides and its pedicel grey silky, inside 

 at the middle densely bearded ; pistil hardly half an inch long, 

 smooth, exserted ; germen stipitate ; stigma ovate, oblique- 

 terminal, with central papilla. 



On the subalpine summit of Mount William, and on rocky 

 ridges towards Mount Zero. 



This species resembles Grevillea juniperina and G. riparia 

 (H. Br. prodr. 377.) 



46. Grevillea lobata, 



(Sect. Eugrevillea.) 



High, upright, many branched ; twigs spreading, angular, 

 covered with a very thin whitish indument ; leaves in circum- 

 ference ovate, deeply laciniate, venose, with hardly recurved 

 margin, contracted by a wedge-shaped basis into the stalk, 

 above pale-green, glabrescent, beneath tomentose as the 

 branches ; segments two or three on both sides, distant, 

 lanceolate, mucronate, entire, rarely teeth-bearing; racemes 

 dense, ovate, many-flowered, at length drooping j calyx outside 

 as well as pedicels and rhachis grey from an appressed indu- 

 ment, inside smooth ; style long exserted, with exception of 

 the basis smooth ; hypogyne gland very short ; stigma oblique- 

 lateral, broad-ovate, centrally umbonate ; germen and its 

 stipes white-tomentellous. 



In the desert along the Murray river, from Swan Hill away 

 to the westward. 



Nearest to Grevillea ilicifolia (R. Br. suppl. p. 21), but 

 much higher, upright, tomentum white shineless not silky, 

 leaves deeper divided with distant segments, and flowers more 

 numerous. 



47. Grevillea pterosperma. 



(Sect. Cycloptera.) 



Upright ; branches strict, holosericeous ; leaves glaucous, 

 somewhat rigid, narrow-linear elongate, undivided or bi- 

 trifid, glabrescent, ending in a sphacelate mucrone, above 



