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* PIMELEA incana. 



Hoary Pimelea. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. orcl. Thymelace^e. 



PIMELEA. Bot. Reg. vol. \5.fol. 1268. 



P. incana ; ramulis lanatis, foliis distantibus ovatis ovalibus et orbiculatis mar- 

 gine recurvis supra glabris subtus lanatis, floribus laxis villosis foliis flora- 

 libus multo longioribus, staminibus longe exsertis. 



P. incana. R. Brown prodr. 1. 217. 



P. nivea. Floral Cabinet, not of Labillardiere. 



Frutex ramosus, erectus, ramulis elongatis debilibus apice lanuginosis. 

 Folia parva, distantia, coriacea, supra glabra subtus lanuginosa ; inferiora 

 opposita ovata acuta, intermedia ovalia obtusa, suprema alterna orbiculata ; 

 omnia mar gine recurva. Capitula laxa, multiflora, haud involucrata, foliis 

 floralibus longiora. Calyces villosi, candidi, basi rosei, laciniis oblongis 

 obtusis supra glabris. Stamina extra faucem inserta, erecta laciniis caly- 

 cinis cequalia. Ovarium et stylus glabri. 



For specimens of this very pretty shrub I am indebted to 

 Miss Copeland of Leyton, who obligingly sent it me in 

 April 1837. It at that time was a bush about five feet high, 

 with long slender side branches, and was covered with its 

 neat clusters of pink and white flowers from the foot to the 

 top of the plant. 



It is a native of Van Diemen's Land, and was raised by 

 Mr. A. Kinnock, the Gardener at Leyton, in the year 1834, 

 from seeds given Miss Copeland by Mr. Turnbull. The 

 flowers were produced for the first time in 1836. 



This species, like all the rest of the genus, succeeds very 

 well on the front shelf of a green-house, if not too much 



See Bot. Reg. fob 1268. 



