Grislea
(named in honour of Gabriel Grisley, author of a work on the Botany of Portugal, who lived in the seventeenth century). ORD. Lythrarieae. A genus now limited to the one species described below, which is a very pretty stove evergreen shrub. It thrives in a compost of fibry and sandy peat and loam. Propagated by cuttings, obtained in spring from firm young shoots, and inserted in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in heat. G. secunda (side-flowering). fl. pale pink; stamens long, purple. l. on short petioles, puberulous on both surfaces. Branchlets glabrous. h. 4ft. to 6ft. Venezuela and New Grenada, 1820.
G. tomentosa. See Woodfordia tomentosa.