hairs on the lower part of the perianth-tube impart. a 
very distinctive appearance to the inflorescence. In the 
flowers of the genus Pimelea it has been said that there 
are no hypogynous scales such as occur in other Thyme- 
laeaceous genera like Daphne and Lasiadenia. This 
statement does not, however, hold universally, for in the 
species now described the scales, though very small, are 
nevertheless present in connate or approximate pairs at 
the base of the ovary and opposite the inner perianth 
segments. The cultural conditions most suitable for 
P. ferruginea are those required by Cape Heaths. At 
Kew it thrives well in a cool sunny greenhouse, where 
it flowers freely in spring. 
Descriprion.—Siru); stems erect, branched, 13-2 ft. | 
high; branches glabrous. Leaves opposite, decussate, 
obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, 
somewhat blunt at the tip or slightly mucronate, rather 
narrowed towards the base, under } in. long, about } in. 
wide, sessile, margin more or less recurved, midrib hardly 
visible above, somewhat raised beneath, lateral nerves 
hardly visible on either face. leads terminal, globose, 
many-flowered ; involucral bracts 4, suborbicular, acute, 
4 in. long, x in. wide, membranous, glabrous, greenish- 
pink. Perianth hypocrateriform; tube cylindric, under 
z in. long, 54 in. wide, slightly dilated upwards, densely 
clothed outside with white hairs long and spreading below, 
shorter and adpressed above, glabrous within; lobes 4, 
oblong, rounded at the tip, + in. long, ,, in. wide, ad- 
pressed pubescent outside, glabrous within. Stamens 23 
filaments } in. long; anthers very short. Disk hypo- 
gynous, composed of 4 minute lobes, connate or approxi- 
mate in pairs, opposite the two inner perianth lobes. 
Ovary oblong-cylindric, rounded at the tip, glabrous ; 
style lateral, + in. long, glabrous. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 8, anthers ; 4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
