Bauer's grevillea, Grevillea baueri. Native to Australia, collected on the Blue Mountains, seeds sent by Scottish botanist Charles Fraser, Colonial Botanist of New South Wales, flowered at Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1826. Downy-leaved grevillea, Grevillea pubescens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by Robert Kaye Greville from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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