22 CV. THYMELER. [Pimelea. — 
anthers with a narrow connective, the cells when open placed back to 1 
back. Fruit a eg e, enclosed in the membranous persistent base of the 
xiv. 515; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 331; Sweet Fl. Austral. t. 52; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 540; ^v dana drupacea, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. E 
Petrop. x. (1845) 46 1 
Victoria. Sealer’s EN F. Mueller 1 
Tasmania. Derwent uk And Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in humidi 4 
forests in ane soil, J. D. Hook E 
P. umbratica, A. Cunn. Bai: ; Ma n DC. Prodr. xiv. 510, from Logan Vale, as 
far as the specimens go, is u vndiitinguislable from P. drupacea, 'except in the rather 
smaller flowers. The statio; ~ is however so far distant that more perfect specimens mayi 1 
possibly show it to be distinc 1 
. P. hematostachya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 84. An erect perennial 
of 1 to 2 ft. perfectly glabrous except the inflorescence, somewhat 
glaucous, not much branched. Leaves Bpporite sessile or nearly 7 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, mostly 1 to l4in. long.  Flower-hez 
pedunculate above the last stem- leaves, large and hirsute, at first 
pirena, but soon Eae did into a dense spike of 2 to 4 in. Iwo Mi 
, Very deciduous so as to be seen only on the very youn 
head, linear, membranous iry. Flowers of a Yet EE a ur, 
numerous and crowded. Perianth e Bie heirs, the slender tube 
ov 
Patty tbe Ne LSpictr membranous. 
cotyled 
Que Burdekin river and Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Dawson aw 1 
Leich Andes por Ar nd Edgecombe Bays, Dallachy; Port Denison, Fitzalan; : 
eo Creek ME Bowen river, ion: Suttor river, Sutherland ; Rockhampton 
97. P. spicata, R. Br. Prod. 362. A small much-branched shrul 
usually glabrous, with slender wiry branches. Leaves opposite, ve 
shortly stolae, oblong-elliptical, "ris under 4 in. to nearly li: 
lon s ve pes , in heads at first short and shortly pedunet 
late above the last kis. but soon UE DEWAR out into more or le 
interrupted spikes rather ra cemes, from r lin.to nearly ii 
ong, without aata bracts, the slender ies te short pedicels : an 
erianths all quite glabrous. Peria nth-tube slender, about 1j 
ong, circumsciss about the middle after flowering, the lobes scarcel 
as long. Filamen 
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