CoLENSo. — On Netu Phcenogaviic Plants. 483 



Order LXVII. Thymele^. 

 Genus 1. Pimelea, Banks and Solander. 



1. P. lanceolata, sp. nov. 



Shrub erect, "3ft. high," much branched at top; glabrous 

 ■except inflorescence. Branches regularly tubercled with scars 

 from former leaves ; bark reddish-brown, shrivelled ; branch- 

 lets opposite and sub-fasciculate, numerous, spreading, sub- 

 angular ; bark light yellow-green. Leaves lanceolate, usually 

 2in. long, 3^ lines wide at middle (sometimes smaller), oppo- 

 site, distant 3-4 lines apart, spreading, fiat, light-green, mid- 

 rib prominent below, principal veins very long almost obsolete, 

 margins slightly recurved, tips acuminate, thickish, acute, 

 somewhat suddenly contracted at base, petiole 2 lines long, 

 with a miuut3 tuft of erect hairy bracteoles in the axils ; the 

 floral leaves similar but shorter and a little broader. Flowers 

 in small terminal corymbose heads, 8-15, peduncled ; 

 peduncles short, very hairy with coarse grey hairs. Perianth 

 8 lines long, white, rather thin, strigosely hairy throughout ; 

 hairs white, very thick and coarse at base ; tube infundibuli- 

 form, throat wide, very narrow below, constricted near base ; 

 limb spreading, lobes broadly elliptic very obtuse rounded, each 

 2 lines long, margins slightly irregular, much and reticulately 

 veined, veins red. Anthers large, oblong, slightly apiculate, 

 adnate, 1 line long ; stamens and style much exserted. Nut 

 narrow ovoid, enclosed in membranous base of perianth. 



Hah. Base of Mount Euapehu, County of East Taupo ; 

 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. Its nearest ally among the known species of Pimelea 

 is P. longifolia, Banks ; differing, however, from that species in 

 several characters, especially from the more minute and exact 

 specific description of it as given by Bentham, " Flora Austra- 

 liensis," vol. vi., p. G. 



2. P. similis, sp. nov. 



Shrub erect, 2ft. -3ft. high ; branched at top ; glabrous 

 except inflorescence. Branches spreading ; bark dark-red, 

 wrinkled, smooth ; branchlets numerous, slender, very pale 

 straw-colour, sub-angular. Leaves broadly lanceolate, lin.- 

 l-|in. long, 5-6 lines broad, tips suddenly acuminate, obtuse, 

 opposite, sub-decussate ; fewer larger and more distant on 

 branches, numerous and smaller on branchlets, flat, dull olive- 

 green, upper surface cuticle smooth shining wrinkled, veined ; 

 midrib below stout and prominent ; margins thickened sub- 

 cartilaginous, white, recurved ; petioles stoutish, short, 1 line 

 long, somewhat broad and flat, pale-yellowish like branchlets ; 

 involucral leaves similar but broader, ovate-lanceolate abruptly 



