GREVIL'LEA SERI'CEA 
SILKY GREVXLLEA. 
EXOGEN^. 
OR 
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this Plant belongs, 
Natural division 
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NATURAL ORDER, PROTEACE^. 
aiOXOCHLa.iiITDE^, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
Artificial divisions 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
No. 240. 
GENUS. Grevillea. Brown. Perianthium irregulare; foliolislachiiisve 
secundis, apicibus cavis staminiferis. ANXHERiE immersas. Glandula hypo- 
gynaunica,dimidiata. Ovarium dispersmum. Stigma obliquum, depressum, 
(raro subverticale conicum), Folliculus unilocularis, dispersmus, loculo cen¬ 
tral!. Semina margiiiata, vel apice brevissime alata. Frutices rarius arbores, 
pills dum adsint medio affixis. Folia alterna, indivisa vel pinnatifida. Spic« 
nunc elongatse racemosse, nunc abbreviatse corymboste vel fasiculifonnes, invo- 
lucro nullo, pedicellis geminatis, raro jiluribus paribus fascicnlisve nnibracteatis. 
Perianthia ssepissime rubicundannne fl ava,inquibusdam oblique inserta. Fol- 
LicuLi vel coriacei ovati, stylo toto coronati,seminibus ovalibns, angustissime 
marginatis et apice brevissime alatis; vel lignei, suborbiculares, pseudo-bivalves, 
basi tantummodo styli mueronati, seminibus undique alatis. Brown. 
SPECIES. Grevillea sericea (Brown) foliis ellipticis oblongisve,obtusis, 
mucronatis, marginibus refractis; ramulis fioriferis erectis; raeemis abbreviatis 
recurvisjbarba interior! perianthii demidio inferiore unguium breviore^ pistillis 
semuncialibus. Br. 
Character of the Genus, Grevillea. Perianthium irregu¬ 
lar, the leaflets or segments secund, the apices concave staminiferous. 
Anthers immersed in the hollow. Hypogynous gland single, 
dimidiate. Ovarium two-ovuled. Stigma oblique, depressed, (rarely 
subvertical and conical). Follicle unilocular, two-seeded, the locu- 
lament central. Seeds bordered, or very shortly winged at the apex. 
Description of the Species, Grevillea sericea. Shrub, 
in the specimen described, seven feet high, erect, stem round, slender, 
bark brown and cracked; branches erect, slightly anguled, green on 
the shaded side, red on that most exposed to the light, at first shortly 
pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves (inch and half long, quarter 
of an inch broad) lanceolate, mucronate, dark green and becoming 
glabrous above, silky with adpressed hairs below, slightly folded for¬ 
wards along the centre, middle rib prominent below, edges slightly 
revolute. Racemes on short axillary branches, about as long as the 
leaf. Pedicels silky. Flowers crowded, secund, pale purple. 
Perianth irregular, four-cleft, cut to the base along the upper side, 
silky on the outside, and having a narrow band of dense tomentum of 
