No. 151. 
Grevillea striata, R.Br. 
Western Beefwood. 
(Family PROTEACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Grevillea. (See Part I, p. 1.) 
Botanical description. —Species, G. striata, R.Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc., x, 177 ; 
Prod. 380. 
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 18 inches 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 3 inches, shortly pedunculate, and usually 
several together in a leafless 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 | inch long. (B.F1. v, 462.) 
Botanical Name. — Grevillea , already explained (see Part I, p. 2) ; striata, 
Latin, channelled, fluted,—in botany, striate, in reference to the longitudinal 
markings of the leaves. 
Vernacular Names. —“ Beefwood ” is a name of well-nigh universal 
application in the districts in which it is found. The appearance of the fresh timber 
resembles that of raw beef a good deal. I have known it to be called “ Silvery 
Honeysuckle ” by reason of its glaucous or silvery foliage when young. 
Aboriginal Names. —“ Turraie ” of some Queensland aborigines. Mr. E. M. 
Bailey quotes Wedd as the authority for the name “ Wilier” at St. George, and Dr. 
Roth for the names “ Ar-roo-in ” at Princess Charlotte Bay and “ Arrongg ” on the 
Palmer River, all Queensland localities. 
Synonym. — G. lineata, R.Br., App. Sturt Exped., 24 ; Meissn. in D.C. 
Prod., xiv, 385. 
