LOC. "On sand-hills in lat. 27 degrees S." D. Sturt.
DESC. Arbor 15-pedalis (Sturt.) Rami teretes, pube arcte adpressa
persistenti incani. Folia 6-10-pollices longa, vix tres lineas lata,
subter pubescentia incana, super tandem glabrata. Thyrsus terminalis, 2-4
uncialis, rachi pedicellisque pube erecta nec appressa secretione
glutinosa intermista. Flores aurantiaci.
OBS. In the collection presented to the British Museum by Sir Thomas
Mitchell, of the plants of his last expedition, there is a very perfect
specimen, in flower, of Grevillea Sturtii.
The following observations respecting the Grevilleae of the same
collection may not be without interest.
Grevillea Mitchellii, Hooker, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. p. 265, proves to be
Gr. Chrysodendron, prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. p. 379, the specific name of
which was not derived from the colour of the under surface of the leaves,
which is, indeed, nearly white, but from the numerous orange-coloured
racemes, rendering this tree conspicuous at a great distance.
Grevillea longistyla and G. juncea of the same narrative, both belong to
that section of the genus which I have named Plagiopoda.
A single specimen, in most respects resembling Gr. longistyla, of which
possibly it may be a variety, but which at least deserves notice, has all
its leaves pinnatifid, instead of being undivided. It may be
distinguished by the following character:--Grevillea (Plagiopoda)
neglecta, foliis pinnatifidis subtus niveis; laciniis linearibus, stylis
glabris.
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