18 CV. THYMELEJE. [ Pimelea. | 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 884; Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 81; Bot. Mag. t. 891; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1668; P. filamentosa, Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 3 
287, t. 14; 1h involuerata, Herb. Banks; Passerina egerat, Thunb. 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 502; P. waa es a Cunn. in Field, N.S. 1 
Wales, 326; Calyptrostegia linoides, Endl. Ped iv. part 2, 61; 
T Lindieyana, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 499 ‘(aed y). : 
Que Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham and many others; 1 
Rockingham T Bay, Dallae WA 1 
a obra Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, 2. Brown, Sieber, n. 200, 
and Fi. Mix: 476; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, and Twofold Bay, | 
po eller ; fe bee, to Hastings, Macleay and Claredios ri rivers, Butler; New England, ~ 
rt. E 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; W. bank of the Tamar, C. Stuart; also 
collected è by Gunn, n. 3, Milligan, n. 396, and Archer. 3 
Var.? Andersoni, Meissn. Leaves flat orslightly concave. Involucral bracts some- 1 
what silky-villous inside. Perianth much less hai cf t the base and the hairs of the - 
involucre rather quart y rne connecting P. Y rinifolia with P. glauca. Blue © 
: : » ] 
The linifolia dits the four preceding species are sometimes not very easy to - 
distinguish, although in their ordinary forms they cane to be separated by well- marked 1 
charac 
29. P. ligustrina, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 9, t. 9. An erect shrub, | 1 
attaining in the ordinary form 5 or 6 ft., dne except the inflo- - 
rescence or the young shoots slightly silk -hairy. Leaves oppa : 
om ovate to oblong or elliptical, rather thin, l-nerved and m 2 
less distinctly penniveined, 1 to 13 in. long or on luxuriant i ahopts twice | 
thatsize. Flower-heads cer large, globular ; pree bracts in the 
Jie form 4 or rarely 5 or 6, very broad, as long as the perianth- - 
tubes, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers hetunipheeiditers or (in some speci- - 
mens female with shorter perianths, but in both cases aon tl be , 
ok. asm 39; Calyp- 
trostegia ligustrina, C. A. Mey. be ll. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 4; 
P. elata, F. Muell. as dien Le 17; Meissn. in Linnea, xxvi. 949 
and in DC. Prod. x 
non si Wales. Bine Ad s, R. Cunningham, Woolls, Miss Atkinson. 
ria. Wilson’ s Promontor Basin er Range, Cobb tains, F’. Mueller 
Mount Baller, Soues ; mou d the pee Allitt : ee mamine T 
asmania. Po u imple, R. Brown; common in dense humid aser chie 
in -g northern parts of the island, i D. Hooker ; ‘King s Island, MeGow 
: Australia. Rivoli Bay, F. Muel ler. 
