20 CV. THYMELEJE. [Pimelea, 
Tasmania. Mount Welling! rss hat ar R. Brown; summits of all 
ponens at an ect das , J. D. Hooker —hHenslow deseri ibes 
8 as concave "d y may b Re pg ; in the dried state the margins 
enis distinctly recu 
. P. nivea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 10, t. 6. An erect e 
a close dense more or less crisped tomentum, here sometin 
by a few silky pi but never. densely silk ericea ave 
opposite, o TAN orbicular, AEN REGNARE, d elliptical oblong, unde 
j ed n 
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placed back to back; in some specimens the perianths are smaller w 
abortive anthers, ut the flowers fertile in both form "ruit s 
scarcely acuminate, hem ien arp membranous.— R. Br. 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. . 509; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 332; Kr 
and Weste. Fl. Cab. t sd P. incana LR. Br Eé ; t d 
xiv. 509; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 24: Maund, Botanist | 
nivea and H. incana, C. A. "Me ey. in Bull. Acad. Péttópi iv. (1845) 73. 
Tasman Port Dalrymple and Mount Wellington (Table Mountain), 2. Br 
eter eh the island, ascending to the summits of the Western ounta 
elevation of 3500 ft., J. D. Hooker 
. Meyer “placed ne species in his Z erolena, characterized chiefly bg 
perianth remaining entire when in fruit, but I ‘ind it always circumsciss in P 
as the fruit ripens. I bare not been able to find any Bal eT ine! — 80 
verify the embryonal character, which however certai bs Mois ; 
in some species at least of the Chl yplri doin. section o Calyp 
" SussEcT. 2. PRYLLOLÆNA.—Flower-heads terminal, with num 
rous Suvolactel bracts not at all or m broader than the leaves. 
. 88. P. imbricata, R. Br. Prod. 361. A small erect much-br 
shrub, from under 6 in. to 13 ft. high, sometimes clothed fro 
rous. Leaves usually crowded, either mony 
oppone, from oisi esate and under 
linear and above the upper ones almost alwa 
hairs, all flat or s ightly concave. Flower-heads Tial 0 
bracts 8 or more, were” roader than the stem-leaves and 
shorter than the flow apran} with lo 
