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PIMELEA LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWERED 
PIMELEA. 
BREE EEE KKK EEK KEK KEK 
Class and Order. 
Dranpria Monoeynia. 
Nat. Ord:—Tuymetez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium infandibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce e squa- 
mata. Stamina duo, fauci inserta laciniis exterioribus op- 
posita. Stylus lateralis, Stigma capitatum. Nux corti- 
cata, raro baccata. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Pimetea longiflora; foliis linearibus villosiusculis passim 
alternis, floralibus rameis similibus, capitulis termina- 
libus, limbo dimidium tubi equante, stylo incluso. Br. 
Pimetes longiflora. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 361. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 92. 
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The vegetable inhabitants of New South Wales being in 
general readily cultivated in peat earth, and easily increased 
by cuttings, have been in great request for the greenhouse 
and conservatory, and among them are the different species 
of Pimelea, of which thirty-four species are enumerated by 
Mr. Brown, though thirteen only have hitherto been known 
amongst British cultivators. The present was ape 
to our gardens by Mr. Fraser, from the Southern shores o 
New Holland, and is rendered beautiful by the compara- 
tively large and globose heads of pure white blossoms ter- 
Minating the slender and wavy branches. Its flowering 
Season in the Glasgow Botanic Garden is June. 
The stem is four feet or more high, slender, but erect, 
divided upwards with opposite branches ofa lame 
