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GREVILLEA rosmarinifolia. 
Rosemary-leaved Grevillea. 
Linnean Class and Order, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Orders PROTEACE. Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46. 
Tribus II, Fructus peniscens.—A. UNILOCULARIS. 
GREVILLEA. Supra fol. 7. 
Sect. I. Lissosrviis. Folia omnia integerrima (in plerisque marginibus refractis 
v. replicatis pseudo-3-nervia). Flores fusciculati v. in racemo abbreviato, Stylus glaber, 
Folliculus ecostatus. Brown prodr. p. 376. 

G. rosmarinifolia, foliis linearibus acutis mucronatis marginibus refractis: supra sca- 
briusculis : subtus ramulisque sericeis, perianthiis extts glabris : intis supra basin 
dense barbatis, stylis utrinque glaberrimis pedicello triplo longioribus. 
Grevillea rosmarinifolia. Cunn. in app. to B. Field’s geog. mem. on New South Wales, 
&c. p. 328. Swt. hort, brit. p. 348. 
An upright, bushy, evergreen Shrub; branches cylindrical, 
clothed with a white silky down. eaves numerous, crowded, 
straight, linear or lanceolately linear, acute, and tipped with a 
sharp brown mucro, margin rolled backwards and very rough, 
appearing as if minutely denticulate; upper side of a darkish 
green, very rough, being covered all over with innumerable ver 
small tubercles; underneath densely clothed with white silky 
hairs. lowers in terminal racemes, blush-coloured or pale red, 
but reddest before expansion, and the colour finest when most 
exposed to the air. Atacemes variable in length and in the num- 
ber of their flowers, straight, sometimes branched. -Peduneles 
angular, smooth. -bractes short, acute, a little succulent. Pe- 
dicles generally 2 from each bracte, but sometimes only one, 
smooth and glossy, blush-coloured. Perianthium 4-parted, 
revolute at the points, spathulate, concave inwards, the two 
front ones more than double the size of the others, smooth and 
glossy on the outside; inside slightly sericeous and densely 
bearded with a tuft of long white hairs a little above the base. 
Stamens 4, inserted in the hollow points of the laciniz of the 
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