No. 155. 
Gievillea Hilliana, F.v.M. 
White Yiel Yiel. 
(Family PROTEACEvE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Grevillea. (See Part I, p. 1.) 
Botanical description. —Species, G. Hilliana , P. MuelL, in Trans. Phil. Inst. 
Viet ., ii, 72 (1858). 
The original description is in the following words:— 
Branchlets brown silky, leaves large, ovate oblong, blunt, entire or pinnatitid, cuneate at the base, 
flat, net-veined, above glabrous, beneath silvery-silky ; their segments oblong lanceolate ; racemes axillary 
and lateral, solitary, pedunculate, silky, densely many-flowered; bracts minute, lanceolate, deciduous ; 
calyx small, inside and style glabrous, stigma orbicular, nearly lateral, umbonate at its centre. 
In forests at the Pine River of Moreton Bay. Hill and Mueller. A magnificent forest tree which 
I wished to bear the name of its discoverer, Mr. Walter Hill, the Director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Brisbane. 
Later on Bentham described it as follows :— 
A large tree, young branches minutely tomentose. 
Leaves petiolate, either entire obovate-oblong or elliptical, very obtuse, tapering at the base and 
6 to 8 inches long, or still longer and deeply divided at the end into 2 or 3 diverging lobes, 
or deeply pinnatifid with 5 to 7 oblong or lanceolate lobes of several inches, the whole leaf 
then sometimes above 1 foot long, glabrous above, penniveined and reticulate with the 
primary veins confluent in an intramarginal nerve, more or less silvery-silky underneath. 
Flowers small and very numerous in dense cylindrical racemes of 4 to 8 inches, on short axillary 
shoots, accompanied often by 1 or 2 smaller racemes. 
Pedicels about 1 line long, minutely pubescent as well as the rhachis. 
Perianth minutely silky outside, glabrous or scarcely pubescent inside, the tube slender, about 
3 lines long, revolute under the globular limb. ' i. 
Torus straight. 
Gland semiannular, not very prominent. 
Ovary glabrous, stipitate; style long and slender, the stigmatic disk lateral. 
Fruit slightly compressed, nearly 1 inch long. 
Seed rather narrowly winged all round. (B.F1. v, 463.) 
Botanical Name. — Grevillea , already explained (see Part I, p. 2) ; Hilliana, 
in honour of Walter Hill, sometime Director of the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, as 
already explained. For biographical notes of this officer, see my “ Records of 
Queensland Botanists,” Proc . A.A.A.S. , Brisbane Meeting, 1909, p. 377. 
