a large genus of trees of Australia and Tasmania, N.O. Proteaceae, named in honourof the Right Hon. Charles Francis Greville, Vice-Presidentof the Royal Society of London. The name was given by RobertBrown in 1809. The `Century' Dictionary gives ProfessorGreville as the origin of the name but «Professor RobertK. Greville of Edinburgh was born on the 14th Dec., 1794,he was therefore only just fourteen years old when the genus Grevillea was established.» (`Private letter from BaronF. von Mueller.')
1851. `Quarterly Review,' Dec., p. 40:
«Whether Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea, or the other Proteaceae, all may take part in the same glee – – «It was a shrub of orders grey
Stretched forth to show his leaves.»
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia, vol. iii. p. 138:
«Graceful grevilleas, which in the spring are gorgeous withorange-coloured blossoms.»