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CXI. PR0TEACE2E. 
[Grevillea. 
winged. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 384; C. parallel a, Knight, Prot. 121; G. 
polybotrya, F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 23; Meissn. l.c. 698, not of 
Meissn. l.c. 38G. 
Hab.: Shoalbay Passage, It. Broicn : Gilbert River, F. v. Mueller ; Edgecombe and Rockingham 
Bays , Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Broadsound, Flinders and Bowen Rivers, Bowman ; 
Liverpool River, Gulliver-, Port Mackay, Nernst. 
Wood red, hard, close-grained and durable, prettily marked; suitable for cabinet-work. — 
Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 335a. 
Var. hebestachya. Racemes minutely hoary-pubescent. Flowers rather smaller. — Cape 
York, Daemel ; Dayman’s Island, IP. Hill, borne of the Rockingham Bay specimens are 
intermediate between these and the typical form. — Benth. 
G. ang-ustata, R. Br. Prod. Nov. 24; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 384, described from specimens 
in leaf only from Cape Cleveland, A. Cunningham, is probably only a very narrow leaved form 
of G. polystachya. — Benth. 
19. Cv, robusta (robust), A. Cunn. in R. Br. Prot. Xov. 24 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. v. 459. “ Tuggan Tuggan,” Brisbane, Pettigrew. “ Koomkabang,” 
Bundaberg, Keys. Silky Oak, of S. Queensland. A tree sometimes small and 
slender, sometimes robust and 80 to 100ft. high, the young branches hoary 
or ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves pinnate with about 11 to 21 pinnatifid 
pinnae, the secondary lobes or segments entire or again lobed, lanceolate or 
rarely linear, often above lin. long, the margins recurved, glabrous above 
or sprinkled with appressed hairs and obscurely veined; silky underneath, the 
whole leaf 6 to Sin. long and nearly as broad. Racemes secund, 3 or 4in. long, 
solitary or several together on very short leafless branches on the old wood. 
Pedicels slender, about Ain. long, glabrous as well as the rliachis. Perianth 
glabrous outside and in, the tube nearly 3 lines long, scarcely dilated at the 
base, revolute under the ovoid limb. Torus slightly oblique. Gland prominent, 
semiannular. Ovary glabrous, stipitate ; style long, the stigmatic disk somewhat 
oblique with a central cone. Fruit broad, very oblique, 8 or 9 lines long. 
Seed winged all round.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 381 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3184; G. 
wnbratiea, A. Cunn.; Meissn. l.c. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser-, many southern localities. 
Exudes a gum which may be used as a substitute for gum arabic. — Lauterer. 
Wood of a light-pinkish colour; used for staves and in cabinet-work. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 
Woods, No. 336. 
20. striata (channelled), B. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 177, Prod. 380; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 462. “ Wilier,” St. George, Wedd. “ Ar-roo-in,” Princess 
Charlotte Bay. “ Arrongg,” Palmer River, Ruth. A small or large tree, the 
branches closely tomentose, the foliage minutely and sometimes sparingly silky- 
pubescent. Leaves undivided, linear or linear-lanceolate, 6 to 18in. long, often 
curved, 2 to 5 lines broad, obscurely-veined above, striate underneath, with 9 to 
13 raised parallel nerves, separated by intervals much narrower than the nerves 
themselves. Flowers small, in slender spike-like erect racemes of 2 or 3in., 
shortly pedunculate and usually several together in a ieafless panicle shorter 
than the leaves, the rhachis tomentose. Pedicels scarcely 1 line long. Perianth 
silky-pubescent outside, glabrous inside, the tube about 2 lines long, narrow, 
revolute under the globular limb. Torus small. Gland semiannular, prominent. 
Ovary glabrous on a slender stipes; style not very long, the stigmatic cone 
straight. Fruit broad, very oblique, compressed, about fin. long. — Meissn. in 
DC. Prod. xiv. 385 ; G. lineata, R. Br. App. Sturt. Exped. 24; Meissn. l.c. 
Hab.: Islands of Gulf of Carpentaria, Tt. Brown; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Port Denison, Fitz- 
alan-, Kennedy District, Daintree ; Flinders and Dawson Rivers, Sutherland ; in the interior, 
Mitchell. 
Blacks consider the gum the best for their cement. Charcoal used for stuffing up spear 
wounds on chest.— Both. 
The resin of this tree may be used medicinally as a substitute for pitch, and even technically 
where toughness and stickines is not required. — Lauterer. 
Wood dark brown, nicely marked, strong, close-grained ; useful for staves and cabinet-work 
— Bailey's Cat. Ql. 1 roods, No. 337. 
