Its generic name commemorates the. author of the Viri- 
darium lusitanicum, Gabriel Grisley.  Linneus had ar- 
ranged this species under Lyrurum; from whence it has 
been removed to the present genus by the late Mr. Dryan- 
der, under whose inspection Dr. Roxburgh’s work on the 
Coromandel plants was ‘edited. It requires to be kept al- 
ways in the stove. Varies much in the number of its sta- 
mens, segments of the calyx, and number of petals, from 
six to twenty, perhaps more. 
Introduced in 1804 by Mr. William Salisbury. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brame, and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green, 
a The calyx dissected, to show the insertion of the petals of the corolla 
between the segments of the calyx. A stamen: magnified. ¢ The pistil: 
magnified. 
