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GREVILLEA acuminata. 
Tapering-pointed Grevillea. 
Linnean Class and Order, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. 
Natural Order, PROTEACEX., Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46. 
Tribus II, Frucrus pEHIsceNs.—A. UNILOCULARIS. 
GREVILLEA. Supra fol. 7. 
Sect. II. Prycuocarpa. Folia omnia integerrima. Flores fasciculati v. in racemo 
abbreviato, floribus superioribus precocioribus/! Ovarium subsessile, Stylus hirsutus v. to- 
mentosus. Folliculus costatus! Brown prodr, 378. 

G. acuminata, foliis oblongo-ovatis lanceolatisve subacuminatis mucronatis supra punc- 
tato scabris subtis cinereo-tomentosis, racemis paucifloris porrectis recurvisve, 
pistillis hirsutis, perianthiis demum glabriusculis, ramulis pubescentibus, 
Grevillea acuminata. Brown Linn. trans, 10, p.173. Prodr.J.p.378. Hort. Kew, 
ed, 2. v. 1. p.205. Rem, et Schult, syst. 3. p. 413. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 476. 

A handsome dwarf bushy evergreen Shrub : branches slender, 
slightly pendulous, or bending at the points, purplish when young, 
and clothed with tufts of short rigid hairs, which spread in various 
directions. Leaves very variable, alternate, spreading, very fre- 
quently twisted, ovate, oblongly ovate or lanceolate, and tapering 
to a long slender point which is mucronate, of a glossy green on 
the upper side, but very rough, occasioned by very small tuber- 
cles on which the little tufts of hairs are, or have been seated ; 
underneath of a pale green, and clothed with a thin grey tomen- 
tum margins more or less bent backwards. Petioles very short, 
also clothed with little fascicles of hairs. Racemes terminal, 
2 to 10-flowered, slightly recurved. Peduncles smooth and 
glossy, or but slightly pubescent, purplish, Pedicles densely 
pubescent. Fowers all leaning to one side, or ascending, of a 
whitish green, with a purple style. Perianthium thickly clothed 
with close pressed white hairs when young, but becoming nearly 
smooth and glossy when expanded, split in front for the exclusion 
of the style, the points bent backwards, slightly 4-cleft, the 2 up- 
per lacinie longest, all densely bearded in the throat. Sta- 
mens 4, inserted in the hollow points of the laciniee ; anthers 
