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GREVILLEA PUBESCENS. 
Downy-leaved Grevillea. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Ord. PROTEACE^. 
Gen. Char.— C«Z. (Perianthium) irregularis foliolis laciniisve secundis, api- 
cibus cavis staminiferis. Antherce immense. Glandula unica hypogyna, 
dimidiata. Ovarimn dispermum. Stigma obliquum depressum (raro 
subverticale, conicum). FoUiculus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo cen- 
tral. Semina marginata v. apice brevissime alata.— Br. 
QYey\\[ea, puhescens ; foliis oblongis obtusis pubescentibus mucronulatis, 
racemis corymbosis, perianthio pediceUisque glabris, stylo hirsute. 
Apparently a small branching shrub, with hirsuto-pubescent stems and 
branches. Leaves scattered, spreading, an inch to an inch and a half 
long, somewhat waved, quite entire, pubescent on both sides, pubes- 
cence often branched, paler, but not silky, beneath, the extremity ob- 
tuse, and tipped with a short mucro. 
Flowers at the extremity of the branches, in corymbose racemes. PediceU 
slender, quite glabrous, with a small lanceolate bractea at the base. 
Perianth pale yellowish, green, broad and gibbous below at the base, 
remarkably curved at the extremity, open at the back nearly the whole 
length, quadrifid at the extremity, the lobes hollow, each bearing a yel- 
lowish, 2-celled, sessile anther. The texture is rather thick and fleshy, 
turning brown when dry, the base filled with a sweet honey-like fluid, 
and near the base is a tuft of white silky hairs. Pistil with a large 
gland on one side, at the base. Style hairy, purplish, exserted beyond 
the cleft at the back of the perianth, green at the extremity, and gla- 
brous. Stigma oblique, scutelliform, oval, depressed, green. 
I do not find among Mr Brown's species of Gy^evillea 
published in his invaluable dissertation on i\ie Proteacece, in the 
10th volume of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, any 
one that well accords with this ; nor am I sure that even this 
will be found to be constant to its characters, especially in what 
regards pubescence ; for I have specimens gathered upon the 
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