19 CV. THYMELEEX. [ Pünelea.- 1 
PME. connective. Epicarp membranous. Seed with a copious alb 
the embryo nearly cylindrical, um narrow cotyledons.—Meissn. 
PL et 605, and in DC. Pro d. xiv. 506; Bot t. Mag. t. 8276; Bot 
Reg. t. 1582; Ladd. Bot. Cab. t. 1965; An cn ostegia sylvestris, t A. 
Mey. in Bull: Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74; Pimelea graciliflora, Hoo 
Bot. Mag. t. 3288 (with rather broader leaves), Meissn. ll. cc.; Ca 
trostegia pl iflora, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. part 2, ie 
a stralia. King George's Sound, R. S M Preiss, n 1270, Baxter ; S al 
gon 1st coll., n. 551, Preiss, n. 1274; also in Town 2nd coll. 1 
and jr voll & 289. 
osa, F. Muell. Involucral bracts larger and more obtuse Ms the wh 
plant dr pg j^ like the var. tinctoria of P. suaveolens. P. eruginosa, F. 
agm. v 
Ww. ia stralia. Drummond. 
16. P. brevifolia, R. Br. Prod. 359, not of Meissn. A small branchi 
shrub, apparently. 6 in. to 1 ft. high , glabrous except the flow Pine 
opposite, sessile, elliptical oblong or lanceolate, somewhat con 
under $ in. long, usually rather rigid and distinctly penniveined un 
cr | 
; in DC. cxt lyp 
rom nm C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74, as to Bro 
synon 
t he SI gies King George's Sound, R. Brown, also in Drummond, 4th € 
n. 
Y mgustifolia. Leaves ` nint but broader than in P. Maxwelli, and di 
aini —Cape Arid, Maxwell 
Var. membranacea. Leaves and bracts much thinner, the latter orbicular — 
nous vae ee —West reece Drummond (Herb. F. 1 
seems doubtful whether the perianth-tube breaks off above 
pe 
after flowering the foliage and habit indicate ini lace of I b aoi in Calyp 
rather than in Heterolen cath rown’s nb ne si escri m a single eee 
smaller hee and d fo than in Drummond's plant, but it seems to 
species, approaching oa to the var. angus tifo lia. 
7. P. Maxwelli, F. a Herb. A shrub with erect : 
branches from under 1 ft. ft. high, glabrous except the 
rescence. Leaves opposite ieee or oblong- lanceolate, under 
way a ) 
- and Bile baie the hairs of the lower Apen pot en 
ing, on the upper portion shorter and more appressed M el 
