Grevillea (grevilleah)

(Bot.) A genus of Proteacese, distinguished by having apetalous flowers; a calyx which is either four-cleft or has four lineal sepals broadish at the end; four ovate se ile anthers, one of which is attached to the concave apex of each sepal; and an elongated, curved style, with the stigma either lateral or oblique, plane, or concave. The seed-ve el, called a follicle, is woody or leathery containing one or two occasionally winged oval seeds. This is the most extensive and also the handsomest genus of the order. Fig. 2913.-GREVILLEA ACANTHI FOLIA. It contains every variety of form, from lofty trees a hundred feet in height, with a girth of eight feet, as in G. robusta, the silk oak of the colonists, to humble procumbent shrubs, as in G. acanthi folia. Grevy ( gravē ), FRANÇOIS PAUL JULES, statesman and President of the French Republic, born at MontSous-Vaudrez, department of the Jura, Aug. 15, 1813. When a student at Paris he took part in the attack against Charles X. in July, 1830. He studied law in Paris. On the breaking out of the revolution of 1848, he was appointed, by the Provisional Government, Commi ioner for the Jura, and was subsequently returned by that department to the Constituent A embly, and became its Vice-President. He voted against the expedition to Rome, and advocated granting but limited power to the Executive, foreseeing the po ible abuse thereof. At the time of the coup d ' etat (1851) he was arrested, and confined for a short time in Mazas prison. Upon his release he confined himself to his profe ion of law, acquiring celebrity for his defense of political offenders. In 1868, elected to the A embly for Jura to fill a casual vacancy, and reëlected in 1869. He opposed the plebiscite of 1870. In 1871 he was elected President of the A embly. He opposed the Septennate , upon the ground that the A embly had not power to create a power outlasting its own. He refused the nomination, by the A embly, of life senator in 1875. In 1876 was reëlected by the Jura, and again appointed President of the Chamber; on Jan. 30, 1879, elected by the A embly President of the Republic for seven years, by a vote of 563 out of a total of 713 cast. In 1885 he was reëlected president for 7 years, but owing to a conflict between the Executive and the A embly, and his inability to form a ministry, he resigned his office as President of the Republic, Dec. 2, 1887. G. was a man of high culture, with a judicial turn of mind, strict probity, and dignity of manner. Died Sept. 9, 1891.