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PlMELEA ROSEA. ROSE-COLOURED 

 PlMELEA. 



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DlANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cor, 4-fida. Ca/. nullus. J/12;/;, fauci infcrta. A r «# corticata, 

 i-locu)aris. 



Specific Charatler and Synonym. 



PlMELEA rofea ; involucris tetraphyllis lanceolato-ovatis 

 utrinque glabris, tubo inarticulato infernc hifpido, foliis 

 lanceolato-linearibus. 



PlMELEA rofea ; involucris tetraphyllis : foliolis lanceolato- 

 ovatis acutis utrinque glabris, perianthii tubo inarticulato: 

 dimidio inferiore hifpido, foliis lanceolato-linearibus. 

 Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. 360. 



The genus Pimelea is a very extenfive one; Brown's 

 Prodromus containing no fewer than thirty-four fpecies ; only 

 two of which are as yet to be met with in our gardens. 



In fome, the leaflets of the involucrum are but little different 

 from the other leave?, and in many fpecies the tube of the 

 corolla is jointed, in which cafe the lowermoft portion is 

 perfiftent. In the prefent fubjeft the tube has no joint, but 

 the lower half of it is covered with long hairs, while the upper 

 half and the limb is naked or only clothed with a fliort down. 

 In Pimelea linifolia (No. 891) the limb of the corolla only 

 is hairy. 



The Pimelea rofea is a native of the fouthern parts of 

 New-Holland, and has been cultivated, for ionic years paft, 

 in the royal garden at Kew, though not inferted in the new 

 edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. It is a very defirable green- 

 houfe plant ; flowering great part of the year, and propagated 

 by cuttings. Received from Meffrs. Malcolm and Sweet's 

 Nurfcry, Kennington, in May 1811. 



