| Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. E 
ustralia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, R. vbi hn and 
. many ANE 
A variable species of koe there are 3 principal form 
axteri, Meissn. Dense ui branched with small glabrous leaves, flowers usually 
a QR George’s Sound Brown, Baxter, Preiss, n. 1273, &c.; Fitzgerald and 
c 
Ba 
axw 
acillima, Meissn. Taller with slender branches, short narrow glabrous wet 
smaller flower-heads and even the bracts sometimes nearly g labr dn — Festa 
Meissn. 2 ix Preiss. 2: ver ot of R. Brown; dp» fay rie 
. pilig Low or Lia À often i Tog, all or "veli clothed with 
long diese “silky hairs. T lower-heads and flowers Fihof large, flowe ually white 
pilibunda, A. Cunn. He na, Grah. in Edinb. Ne rn. xxix 74; 
Bot. Mag. t. 3833; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 606, ii. 272, and in Do Prod. xiv. 508 ; 
| P. crinita, Ling) in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 59; gen fake v. 507; 
. trostegia nana, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61. 
coll. n. 
| po š Press, n. 1275, 1277; Port Gregory and Vases en Oldfield. Phillips river, 
aawe 
1 Bu erp 4th coll. n. 236, appears to be intermediate between the first and the 
4 . villifera, Preiss. ii. 271, and i rod. 
. xiv. 508. An erect sided coarse anch Wok m ith rather 
. stiff hairs. Leaves mostly opposite, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, flat, 
- thick but soft, 4 to 6 or 8 lus long. Flower-heads globular, densely 
hirsute? [a volka bracts 8 or more, similar to the stem-leaves or E 
. more lanceolate, obtuse, often as long as E pes does s hirsute 
W. A ustralia, Brassil à, M T is certainly allied to P. 
. imbrica some varieties have small bad at s, but the iyu is different, 
Puls Ey in "P lira they are equally "hispid on fis "Lobes and the tu 
 Sussect. 3. Cuoristacuys.—Flowers in clusters spikes or racemes, 
_.without involucres or the bracts not broader than the leaves and very 
deciduous. Leaves flat or with slightly recurved margins. Flowers 
small, except in P. ate ae Seeds, where known, with scanty 
albumen and broad cotyledon 
|. 85. P. drupacea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i.10,t.7. A straggling shrub, 
. attaining 6 to 8ft. but often much lower, the branches more or less silky- 
hairy. Leaves all opposite, from ovate to oblong-elliptical or oblong- 
