-PimeELeEA HYPERICINA. HypericuM-LEAVED 
PIMELEA. 
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Class and Order. 
DranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Tuyme.ez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua- 
mata. Stamina duo, fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus 
opposita. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nux cor- 
ticata, rard baccata. Br. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Pimetea hypericina ; involucris octophyllis, foliolis lato- 
ovatis acutis utrinque pedunculoque subclavato vil- 
loso-sericeis ; floribus polygamis, perianthiis extis 
lanato-villosis, (hermaphroditi staminibus exsertis stylo 
longioribus: feminei stylo elongato glabro, tubo duplo 
longiore,) stigmate crassé ciliato, foliis elliptico-oblon- 
gis, oblongo-lanceolatisve acutis glabris venosis, sub- 
tus glauco-pallidis. Cunn. 
An ornamental, slender shrub, rising three or more feet 
in height; and bearing capitula of hermaphrodite flowers 
on a different plant from that which appears to produce 
heads of female flowers only,—the almost sessile anthers 
with which those perianths are furnished, being (in all exa- 
mined) wholly imperfect. In the flowers of the former, the 
stamens extend beyond the mouth of the tube, and are 
uniformly longer than the style. Among them, however, 
are occasionally to be observed, a few perianths, wherein 
the anthers, inserted on abbreviated filaments, are abortive, 
and where these occur, the styles are considerably elongated 
to be convenient to receive the pollen of the well-develop- 
ed anthers of the other, more perfect flowers. 
This hitherto unpublished plant, which belongs to Mr. 
Brown’s first section of the Genus, was discovered by Mr. 
Witu1am Baxter in the neighbourhood of King George’s 
Sound. It has much of the habit and strength of growth et , 
